Sure Travel Journey Vol 3.3 Winter 2017 | Page 32

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W ild W inteR
the ultimate guide to a
Nothing will turn an adult
into a playful kid quicker
than snow. Ami Kapilevich
are made up of igloos with
frost-resistant glass ceilings.
If sleeping in a room with walls
your winter holiday into an
and furniture made from ice
isn’t whacky enough for you, the
unforgettable one.
Kirkenes Snow Hotel in Norway
offers a dog-sled airport transfer
SLEEP IN AN ICE HOTEL
and Arctic king crab fishing.
That’s right, a hotel made entirely from
Then there’s the Hotel Kakslauttanen
frozen water. Because if your stay in one
Igloo Village in Finland, which offers
of these doesn’t make for excellent dinner
transparent-roofed igloos (all the better to
conversation for at least a year afterwards,
admire the Northern Lights through) and
nothing will. These days you can find ice
early morning reindeer rides.
hotels in several countries, from Canada to
Don’t want to commit to an entire night
Scandinavia. Some are set into mountains
on ice? Canada’s Hotel de Glace is situated
with hot baths in natural caverns; others
close enough to Quebec’s city centre for
suggests seven ways to turn
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it to be a day tour; you can carve your own
cocktail glass from ice, and the venue also
offers a behind-the-scenes exhibition of
the ice hotel’s construction.
Closer to home: Stay at one of the themed
trailers at the top of the Grand Daddy Hotel
in Long Street, Cape Town, or spend a night
in one of the country’s working lighthouses.
PARTY UP A SNOWSTORM
The town of Avioraz in France lies at the
heart of the Portes du Soleil region of the
Alps – the second-largest skiing region
in the world, comprising a network of