Gulmarg gears up for snow festival

SRINAGAR:
Gulmarg, the celebrated wintertime athletics finish in Jammu and Kashmir, is being
dressed up to host Snow festival on the Eve of Christmas. Besides last year's star
attraction - like snowfall cycling, nighttime water ice skating, snowfall devising competition,
sledge race, snowfall water scooter races, skiing, snowfall rugby, etc - nutrient festival and
cultural events will constitute portion of the snowfall event set to kick start tomorrow, a
spokesman of the touristry section said. Bucked Up by the success of
the snowfall festival last year, the spokesman said the touristry section is
leaving no rock unturned to advance the hill station as wintertime sports
destination in national as well as international media. He said, besides the festival,
the touristry section is also organising national wintertime games in Gulmarg from
February 17 adjacent twelvemonth and international cross-country skiing which have been duly
approved by the Federation Internal Skiing (FIS). The popular skiing vacation spot was
visited by a big figure of foreign tourers last twelvemonth and we anticipate the number
will increase many fold up this year. We have got also decided to maintain special
facilities in topographic point to entice upper limit figure of tourers from across the globe, he
said. He claimed that Gulmarg
is inexpensive and most low-cost topographic point for wintertime games across human race for both
domestic and international tourists. Besides wintertime sports, tourers can also
enjoy the snowy beauty of the valley.