Balea Lac Ice Hotel in mountain valley
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-02-05 16:56

A worker makes finishing touches on an ice sculpture, a copy of an artwork by Romanian-born modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi, at the Balea Lac Ice Hotel in Fagaras mountains, 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Bucharest, February 1, 2006. Tucked away in a remote valley in Romania's Carpathian mountains, the tiny hotel has opened to try and attract tourists and their cash to the unspoilt forests of some of Europe's greatest wilderness. [Reuters]