little penguins @ sapporo snow festival

snow? who cares!!

sapporo snow festival

1 n 2. the japanese self defense force braving the snow before the mammoth snow sculpture they made.
3. see what the koalas got to say
4. huge task ahead!
5. hide n seek. shez from macau. do u know where macau is
6. mmm looks like the little girl from The Ring ?? May be not!

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mama penguin n little penguins. lions club sapporo and hokkaido university international students joined together to make this snow sculpture for the 57th sapporo snow festival (6 Feb to 12 Feb)

penguin. lions club sapporo and hokkaido university international students at sapporo snow festival

Sapporo snow festival (Sapporo Yuki Matsuri 1) began spontaneously in 1950 by a small group of high school students who started making snow sculptures. In time it grew, the japanese Self Defense Force (SDF, you can see the structure they built and saluting in  the pictures above), several groups and the public joining it.

1. Yuki Matsuri. yuki = snow, matsuri = festival

 

15 Responses

  1. eguru says:

    snow? who cares!! beautiful Image..:)

  2. skie says:

    oh, the photos are so beautiful!!!
    would u teach me how 2 do it???

  3. cibbuano says:

    Yeah, great photos of Japan… it almost makes me miss snow. The bite of the cold winter air, the feeling of snowflakes melting on my oversized nose…

  4. rocksea says:

    silverine, ya it shud 🙂

  5. silverine says:

    Hi rocksea,

    Your name suits your profession!! Had a nice time looking at the photographs. Now lemme check out the rest of the blog.

    Cheerio

  6. rocksea says:

    hey sthira,

    i should better recommend you some documentaries on india. best would be to watch michael palins travel accounts through india. if you or ur friends use torrents, they can get it from:

    MVGroup at http://www.mvgroup.org (one wud need to register)
    Himalaya with Micahel Palin
    http://www.mvgroup.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2277&hl=
    He takes you into the social cultural historical philosophical aspects in india.

    other related ones, search for it in the same web:
    Legacy – Origins of Civilization – India – Empire of Spirit
    Ayurveda – Art of Being

    Lost temples of India, which is available at page 2 on india-unity in diversity on my web

    etc etc.

    keep wikipedia along.

    other reccomendations: one of my friends had a trekking to the valley of flowers. i had gone near to it 4-5 years before though i took another route then. it would be a great experience if your friends go on such a trekking. may be you people know that rishikesh is the gateway to indian philossophy. it is kind of the place where you can say the himalayas start geographically. so if anyone likes to have a wonderful geographically enthralling view mixed with philosophy, spirituality and sports starting upward from rishikesh would be a great idea. but beware it wont be as easy as roaming around delhi n agra. so preethi’s blog abt valley of flowers is at http://oddthots.blogspot.com anyways it will also depend on what time/month they’re going to be in india

    cheers, roxy

  7. rocksea says:

    aye g, have done it in ur blog. rocky is already in the list so you’ve to find smtg new haha.

    pradeep, 🙂

    sthira, where in japan is ur friend from? isn’t what they asked for a bit too wide 😀 in general we can start with the diversity of the country and therez a post here on it, have you seen? but it will be interesting to read some books caricaturing these features.. lemme think n get back to you.. ]

    ?????? hey relax yaar. you have to chill down 😉

  8. sthira says:

    Hey Rocksea,

    Well, they (I also have a friend from Japan visiting)are going to be there for about 10 days and mostly around Delhi and Agra. They wanted to read about the social, cultural, religious, philosophical, historical aspects of the country as a whole.

    By the way, you have a pretty neat website!Wonder how you chanced upon mine. Welcome.

  9. Heard about it and saw on TV. Lucky you! Good pics.

  10. g says:

    we’re playing tag and ur it!
    love
    g

  11. g says:

    jolly good pics again rocky(oh yea, thats ur new nick!)cant believe its so cold, i start complaining at 16 deg !
    have a nice day
    love
    g

  12. rocksea says:

    ally,mmm. that day (we made it last saturday) we must’ve got record snowing for the year.. like half a meter or more! was snowing heavily from friday nite to saturday nite

    hey kris, ya the airfare peaks at this time. JR is so crowded these days, so many tourists!

  13. Kris says:

    Lucky u….saw the news and stuff about it in TV over here…wanted to travel to sapporo for that event, but u know how much the costs peak at this season…:-(

  14. Ally says:

    Wow, these pictures are fantastic!
    Hope you are doing fine 😉
    Here it’s cold (-6°C) but we haven’t had snow in a fortnight. May be it’s too damn cold! LOL
    Have a great day !
    Ally.

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