Visitors to one of China's chilliest destinations can enjoy scalding hotpot in the open air and flavored ice for dessert.
Some bold male visitors strip down to their waists for photos in front of ice walls.
Lengjidian in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region's Genhe city holds the record for the country's lowest recorded temperature-that is, -58 C in 2009.
The National Climate Center recently issued a certificate to Genhe city as China's lengji ("the pole of cold" in Chinese), after an assessment by experts.
Its mountainous landscape is sheathed in snow, and trees are coated with rime.
The nearest village to Lengjidian is called Lengji, about 13 kilometers away from the "pole". It draws visitors who enjoy farm stays, local cuisine and dog sleds.
The settlement was a forestry-operated timberland until the commercial felling of trees was banned in 2015.