Ice Bar at Restaurant Reykjavik in Iceland. Guests get a coat before they enter the bar into 6c where they serve cocktails and Icelandic Brennivín.
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Girls enjoy cocktail drinks on the ice made bar counter at a press preview of the Absolut Icebar in Tokyo. Asia's first ice bar made from blocks of ice cut from Sweden's Torne river will open here 17 February with an entrance fee of 3,500 yen (30 USD) per person with one drink and winter clothes.
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A bartender makes the cocktails at a new-opened Absolut Icebar in Shanghai, 22 June 2007. China's largest city Shanghai may be sweltering under muggy summer heat, but Sweden's Icehotel may just have the coolest bar in town for patrons to chill out in. The operator shipped 50 tonnes of ice blocks to Shanghai from Sweden's Torne River, a method used for the Stockholm bar that helps maintains the room at minus five degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit).
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An entertainer dressed as an Ice Queen performs for the public at a new ice attraction, called Ice Space, next to Tower Bridge in London. The attraction houses ice sculptures, an ice bar, an ice rink and will also feature performance art. The ice attraction has been made with over 2,000 blocks of ice, weighing over 200 tons in total.
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Holly Sevenson enjoys a cocktail at minus 12 degrees in Melbourne's first ice bar called the Chill On, located in the city centre. Over thirty tonnes of ice has been used in fitting out the bar with ice sculptures, chairs and a couch alone that weighs in at four tonnes. Patron pay 30 dollars (22.5 US dollars) for a half hour visit where they received a free vodka or cocktail in special glasses made of ice as they sit on seats covered with kangaroo skins.
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Japanese young girls try to chisel blocks of ice into glassess at a studio of the Alpha Resort Tomamu's "Ice Dome Village" in Shimukappu, northern Japan. The village which consits of six domes, including glass studio, bar and chapel which are constructed from ice, opened in December and is expected to last until the end of March.
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A woman enjoys cocktails at "Icebar Sub-Zero" in Seoul, South Korea. The entrance fee for South Korea's first 'Ice Bar' is 15USD and includes a drink, customers can also borrow coats upon entry. Everything in the bar including the counter, walls, tables, glasses and chairs are made from blocks of ice.
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Barman Brendon Smith poors a vodka in the frozen interior of the Minus 5 Ice Bar on Princes Wharf. Customers are provided with insulated clothing and only allowed a 30-minute stay inside Minus 5, which is made entirely of ice, right down to the drinking glasses.
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An ice bar is pictured in Rovaniemi. Rovaniemi's Christmas season is in full swing, teeming mainly with families with children eager to meet Santa and his elves. In 2007, almost one million tourists visited Finnish Lapland above the Arctic Circle, 360,000 of whom were foreigners, mainly from Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Russia, according to the regional council of Lapland.
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Bar staff hand out drinks in the Minus 5 Ice Bar at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia. Minus 5 is Australia's first Ice Bar, built entirely out of ice and preserved at arctic temperatures. The human threshold for the body to endure this environment is for a maximum of 30 minutes and visitors are requested to wear overcoats, gloves and hats at all times.
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