An Icy Adventure

THE Ice Hotel at Jukkusjarvi, near Kiruna, is both a work of art and a stunning wonder of architectural imagination, built completely of ice, in which I was fortunate enough to spend one, incredible night last weekend.
At this time of the year, when we are celebrating new birth and new beginnings, above the Artic Circle in Northern Sweden there is an awe-inspiring building that stands for just a few short months and then slowly melts into the river to be re-born every year.

But this crystal wonder is not just a novelty for the adventure-seeking yuppy, though there were quite a few of them, but a place that inspires a spiritual awareness of the transience of things, both material (it?s easy for the Krona in your wallet to flow away in the ‘Absolut’ Ice Bar on warming vodka-based cocktails) and of nature itself.
For the harvesting of ice from the T