Travelers Advantage

Summer to New Zealand skiing is a good choice

In June, China has just entered the summer, while in the southern hemisphere, winter season has arrived.

If you want to experience a handful of ice and fire two days of contrast that to the southern hemisphere.

New Zealand is a famous ski resort in the southern hemisphere.

Because the higher the farther south latitude, the lower the temperature, the New Zealand ski resorts of concentrated mainly in the South Island. Main Queenstown ski bases have extreme sports, Christchurch and two districts, North Island Resort is located in the commercial centre of the North Island Lacroix Ruapehu mountains.

With the arrival of the southern hemisphere winter season, the New Zealand ski resort has already rendered a bustling, the snow field have for 2010 and a great skiing season in the preparation and fermentation.

This year's skiing season, in order to give the tourists bring better skiing holiday experience, many snow field introduced a completely new design. The skiing season starts in June, the New Zealand ski resorts also will all newly opened several Cafe, ski lifts and wilderness skiing facilities.

Crown peak (Coronet Peak), Hart mountain (Mt Hutt) and excellent mountain (The Remarkables) make up the vast South Island Resorts.

These venues are the introduction of new ski lift pass system automation, simply use the microchip can pass scanned clothing, greatly improving the efficiency of the entrance. From the New Zealand ski Tourism Marketing Alliance (New Zealand Ski Tourism Marketing Network) Trish? Mei (Trish May) said that the ski industry looks forward to the season and a prosperous.

Cardrona--w Naka (Cardrona-Wanaka)

Located in the South Island extreme sports (Queenstown) and the districts of Lake between the Cardrona is one of New Zealand's best skiing destinations, it is preparing to launch the Australasian region (Australasia) the first snow of the international certification.

Gold Rush (Goldrush) ski is affected by the FIS (FIS) certification of snow road, Cardrona investment of $ 3 million for New Zealand's largest construction project in the first phase of the project, the project will add 150 hectares of ramp and strengthen the capacity of snow.

Cardrona is also building a new Valley view (Valley View) four ski lifts and 40-metre-long tunnel, and new visitors to meet peak season demand for parking.

Cardrona ski resort managers cover in middot; Hess bend (Gary Husband) said that the end of the first project completed as of June 25, the resort is open for full preparation; the second phase will begin in the summer of 2010. With the new lifts running, we will add many advanced wilderness skiing; this also allows us to run with FIS criteria for downhill skiing.

Three awl mountain scenery of the magnificent three-cone Hill--Watts Naka (Treble Cone-Wanaka)

As the New Zealand South Island's largest ski resort, three cone Hill's award-winning double plate and snowboarding veteran's favorite.

The region also will add a line with FIS standard large high skills in skiing, then, is bound to the tourists bring memorable visual feast.

The resort will also be held in July and September, Ms. ski week devoted to hope to raise standards of female senior veneer and freeski activists.

2010 skiing season also marked the three conical hill, a five-year improvement program startup, the program will follow in the mountain area of key set up several new obstacles and install a set of high resolution webcam.

New Zealand's largest ski resort MT-Ruape

Crown peak--extreme sports (Coronet Peak-Queenstown)

To meet the 2010 skiing season, Crown peak novice easy getting started area (Big Easy) will be significantly upgraded, including the older twin elevator replacement for fast four-man lifts.

This set of quick lift or application for the first time in the southern hemisphere, the security aspects of the new features are: for double and single skiers of automatic wire mat, automatic safety staves and children brake mechanism.

Crown Peak ski resort Manager Hamish? Jimmy crosti (Hamish McCrostie) said that these improvements will allow family ski team and Starter for snow activities have a lot of fun.

Children can easily take the new lift without accompanying adults, so that their parents will be able to freely slide double plate or elsewhere in the hills drive sled.

Snow Park--Cardrona Valley (Snow Park-Cardrona Valley)

Cardrona Valley's snow park renowned for its venue challenging young free skiing enthusiasts are welcome.

2010, Winter Park will expand the night skiing and plans to open every Thursday to Saturday. Winter Park will also establish dedicated student district, in the ski courseAdd some fancy action, fostering the impromptu adventurous beginners.

The resort of the last improvement is the purchase of a 22-foot dig snow machine, according to the ski Park manager Sam Lee (Sam Lee) presentation, which can improve the Park site conditions.

Larger ski pipeline meets international standards, and new dig snow machine is a half-pipe, more secure, so that everyone can easily enjoy 22 feet pipe skiing pleasure.

Hua kapapa--Rua Ruapehu (Whakapapa-Ruapehu)

Rua Ruapehu Mountain ski area covers New Zealand's largest two resorts mdash mdash;; Northwest foothills of China kapapa and Southwest map Charleroi (Turoa).

Hua kapapa resorts new Knoll Ridge Café will be 2010 skiing season starts operating.

In 2009, the fire burned down Knoll Ridge are now available at the site below 50 metres of the reconstruction, to list the magnificent landscape of the resort. At the same time, the snow field in the T-shape hoist tramway room has also built a new pressure snow car parking.

In the great mountain experience skiing adventure 2010 New Zealand South, North Island resorts opening hours:

North Island Resorts:

Manuel Grau tapanui (Manganui): TBD

Diagram Kino (Tukino): 3 July (TBD)

Map of Charleroi (Turoa): June 19

Hua kapapa (Whakapapa): June 26

South Island Resorts:

Cardrona (Cardrona): 6/25/

Crown peak (Coronet Peak): 5 June

Craig this Valley (Craigieburn): 3 July

Hart mountain (Mt Hutt): June 12th

Ohau (Ohau): June 26

Winter Park (Snow Park): 6/25/

Excellent mountain (The Remarkables): June 19

Three cone Hill (Treble Cone): 24 June

Mrs. Robson mountain (Mt Dobson): July 1

Round mountain (Roundhill): 3 July

Travel tips

Time difference: New Zealand time earlier than Beijing time 4 hours, get there first thing is to adjust the time.

Travel: 1 month to go to the Tourism New Zealand's best first book well is likely to have no place to live.

Gastronomy: indigenous Maori traditional diet, there is a freshwater eel, mutton birds and seafood.

The most distinctive is the meat, seafood and vegetables, placed on the soil of steam heat in the oven on a rock. Food like roasted, special flavor. You can also try the nose and Maori.

Transport: bus tour is recommended.

New Zealand bus tours has a lot of character, both convenient and affordable, much like Europe. Bus drivers, who also serves as a guide, we describe the local customs, road trip every 1.5 hours rest 15 ~ 20 minutes; if you want to travel more than once, you can buy New Zealand General pass, you can tour New Zealand 110 size city, you can save 50% of the cost. Taxi all play table, use the telephone to call car surcharge of $ 1; New Zealand car rental pricing by day, driving on the left.

Shopping: New Zealand is a must to buy five souvenirs: wool, Sheepskin products, Maori artefacts, woodcut, various green jade ornament and decoration, natural products, health foods.

New Zealand is rich in wool, woolen blanket is most famous for the Earth.