A Chinese tourist village is being investigated after guests were reportedly deceived with fake snow made out of cotton wool and foamy water.

A tourist attraction in China billing itself as a winter wonderland has landed in hot water after visitors seeking the perfect selfie discovered the promised “snow” was actually made of cotton wool and foamy water.

A tourist village in China's south western province famed for its scenic snow landscape said it was sorry for using cotton wool to create fake snow.

The Chengdu Snow Village project, through a post on a Chinese social media app Wechat, said that it did not snow as much as anticipated because of warm weather during the Lunar New Year holiday in late January. That is why they came up with the idea which, however, turned the tourists’ experience worse.

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Visitors shared photos online of balls of cotton scattered over the bare ground and what appeared to be bedsheets intended to look like snow drifts on the rooftops, according to C

After facing widespread criticism, the village issued a statement on Wechat, admitting to buying cotton to simulate snow but acknowledging that it failed to achieve the expected e