When a group of enthusiastic Japanese students built a couple of snow sculptures at their local park in 1950, little did they realize they were kicking off a tradition that would snowball into one of their city's biggest attractions — the Sapporo Snow Festival.
This year's event, from Feb. 5 to 11, features more than 290 displays — of which the biggest are ambitious reproductions of ancient Egyptian ruins, including the Great Sphinx of Giza, standing up to 55 ft. (17 m) high. Work is on show at three free-admission locations.
The Festival has its own website with a version in English. The Egyptian themed sculptures are at the Odori site and there is a photograph of them on the Odori site page (page down to item 7).
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