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Ski season officially opened in Australia

27 May. 2007

More and more tourists prefer skiing holidays instead of sun bathing on the beach. A perfect possibility to test themselves is right now in Australia.

Yesterday on the skiing resort New South Wales the first snow fell down and the skiing season has been officially opened.

According to the meteorologists, the height of the snow blanket in the Australian Alps will reach 15-20 cm. and the air temperature will stay at 3 below zero Centigrade.

The experts await that in the current season the skiing resorts of the Green Continent will be visited by more than 3 million tourists from the whole world.