One of the pleasures of a beach holiday is making castles in the sand. Usually they’re shaped with a bucket and spade, decorated with shells, driftwood or seaweed and then left to the mercy of the tides. But the 38 professional sand artists who created the sculptures at Sand Wonderland this year took the art of building with sand to a whole new level.
Sand Wonderland is the world’s largest sand sculpture festival and was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records in 2010. It is held every year in the Duinse Polders in Blankenberge, on the Belgian Coast. This year’s festival was titled The World Collection and featured iconic people and places, events and inventions of world renown fashioned from 20 000 tons of specially prepared sand.
Do you recognise these famous faces?
These are amazing!
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Yes, they are. It took us more than two hours to look at them all.
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Sandcastles like this are so amazing, I couldn’t begin to work out who they are done, and there is all that work, and they are just temporary.
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I think the artists are very skilled. The detail was amazing.
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It looks fabulous! Something very similar runs every Summer in the Algarve. It’s called FIESA if you’re interested to Google it 🙂
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The best thing was that we went in the last week, on a rainy day and there was hardly anyone there so we could take our time. I would love to see another one.
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Fabulous sculptures ..
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They were great. It must take time and perseverance to make them look this amazing.
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We go to Hampton Beach every year to see the beautiful creations of the these sand artists. And, it certainly is art. 🙂
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It must take many hours to complete. We had never seen anything like this before so it was an amazing new experience.
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We have similar sand sculpture events and wonderful sand creations from time to time over here in Australia on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Absolutely amazing and lots of fun to be involved in I’d imagine.
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I think it would be great fun, but my sculpting skills wouldn’t be up to par. I live in Toowoomba and I haven’t ever seen anything like this at the Gold Coast. I must take notice in the future and come down to see them.
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Fabulous!
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This work was fantastic and very detailed.
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Fantastic while it lasts. Make me smile just looking at these.
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