记者探秘：瑞典冰雪酒店奇妙之旅
What it's like to sleep in a (luxury) freezer
Of all the hotels I've ever been to, it was my recent stay at Sweden's Icehotel which elicited the most questions.
在我去过的所有酒店中,最受人们关注的是我最近去的瑞典冰雪酒店.
Are you mad? Isn't it really cold? What do you sleep on? What do you wear?
你疯了吗？真的不冷吗？你睡什么？你穿什么？
In short, yes it's really cold, I slept on a bed genuinely crafted from ice, and I kept warm thanks to the strange space-age 'duvet suit' they provided me.
简而言之,非常冷,我睡在冰制成的床上,多亏了酒店提供的像太空服样式的奇异羽绒服使我保暖.
While the Icehotel has inspired copycats around the world, it all started here in the far north of Sweden back in 1989.
如今全球各地纷纷模仿冰雪酒店创意,1989年,最早的冰雪酒店出现在瑞典北部.
Nestled in the small town of Jukkasjarvi, it was first built by hotel pioneer Yngve Bergqvist - who was, at the time, regarded to be mad as a box of frogs.
酒店业先锋Yngve Bergqvist在小城镇朱卡斯亚维建造了第一家冰雪酒店,当时人们认为他的想法太疯狂了.
As it turned out, the concept was a roaring success and each winter since then, artists from around the world have been flying in to construct the 65-room palatial structure from scratch, using ice from the nearby Torne River.
可冰雪酒店的建造却出人意料地获得了巨大的成功.建成后每一个冬天,世界各地的艺术家们都飞来此地,使用附近托尔讷河的冰,从头开始建造这65个富丽堂皇的房间.
Come summer, when the sun finally wrestles its way through the winter-long darkness, the Icehotel melts back into the river from whence it came.
当太阳终于战胜漫长的阴暗冬天,迎来夏天之时,冰雪酒店又会融化回托尔讷河.
This year, for the first time ever, its newly opened 365 wing will remain standing all season round, kept cool - although it sounds impossible - entirely using solar power.
今年,冰雪酒店首次尝试全年开放,保持凉爽,且完全使用太阳能.虽然这听起来根本不可能.
My Icehotel experience kicked off with an awe-inspiring tour through the gleaming corridors and vault-like rooms - each one more quirky, it seemed, than the last.
走过闪闪发光的走廊和一间比一间更古怪的拱顶房间,我开始了令人惊叹的冰雪酒店初体验.
The band of artists spend months with tractors, ice picks and chainsaws to create this architectural feat - and the finished rooms are nothing short of breathtaking.
建筑师们花了几个月的时间,使用牵引机,冰锥和链锯创作出这个建筑壮举.完工后的房间令人惊叹.
