| THE JUKKASJARVI ICEHOTEL
The Jukkasjarvi Icehotel in Sweden is an interesting and cold place for a holiday. It started life as an igloo (a small house made of snow) at an art exhibition in (1) __________ .
(2) __________ of people visited the exhibition and some even slept there, so the builders decided to make it a hotel.
The Icehotel is open for less than (3) __________ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures (4)__________ and it needs (5) __________ tons of ice and 30,000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than (6) __________ snow.
The temperature inside the hotel is usually about (7) __________ .
Outside in Jukkasjarvi itself the temperature can be much lower even as low as (8) __________ !
Last year more than (9) __________ visitors travelled (10)__________ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception!
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