It’s winter! Clear blue sky, shining sun, crackling snow underfoot, a city covered by a snow-white coverlet … Despite frosty days, winter is still a fine season. And winter vacation does not concede to summer at all. You just should consider its choice and organisation!

Mountain-skiing pleasure: tame speed
It is said you cannot avoid falling in love with mountain-skiing rest. And the one who visited here at least once, will necessarily return here  again. To bridle new and new heights.

Today mounting skiing resorts exist worldwide. USA, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Sweden, France … And the list does not come to an end here.  In all this geographical variety, each of mounting skiing resorts has its unique individuality. For example, fans of family rest go to Austria with great pleasure. Local slopes are ideally suited for tourists of any age, including children. Those who aspire combining pleasant with use, should go to Germany. Here you will have skis and get acquainted with local sights. Fans of romanticism like mounting skiing resorts in Italy. Here you are waited by the highest mountains, most unusual descents and best impressions. And capital elite grew fond of magnificent conditions of Switzerland and France for a long time already. Local five-stars hotels are famous for the highest class of service.

Mountain skiing is a special skill, which you should learn. And before you go down from the highest mountain with huge speed, it is necessary to comprehend elements of mountain-skiing art under direction of skilled instructor. Various programs are calculated on tourists of any level of preparation. So both professionals and beginners will feel comfortable.

Tremendous winter landscapes, surprisingly fresh high-mountainous air draw hundred thousand tourists. Even those who are not yet familiar with extreme sports, should try.

Travel to summer
There are many people, wishing to have a rest not only from work and city vanity, but also from cold winter. For this reason winter rest in tropical countries is so popular. Travel agencies offer a set of interesting offers for persons wishing to make travel to summer.

Tropical countries offer “off-peak season” – it is high time for travel. Climate is not so tiresomely hot, like in the height of season. That is more habitual for our organisms.

Such trip helps you gaining new forces. After all it is not a secret that in a winter season apathy, depressions and fast fatigue are peculiar to a person. Atmosphere change, bright impressions, the sun, the sea, a beach – all this will help you cheering up. And having returned to work, you will feel as if you have the second breath.

Likely any trip abroad cannot do without every possible excursions. Visit local sights, historical places, entertaining rounds and cruises, it will help you being charged with new forces, excellent mood and the sea of optimism.

Trip to sea coast – also a possibility to restore health. Fresh sea air, which contains particles of mineral salts, helps strengthening health, influencing respiratory system positively. The sun will help you optimising endocrine system, remove stress and get rid of chronic weariness.

But, speaking about health, it is necessary to mention that winter travel to tropical countries can also do essential harm to health. Acclimatisation – a whimsical thing. If you are in excellent form and have no problems with health, change of climate will pass without serious consequences for you. If you just recovered from illness or have any chronic disease, such trip will not only bring no advantage, but also can weaken immunity considerably.

You should not forget about food. It is better to refrain from local exotic dishes in winter. Our organism already got used to winter carbohydrate diet, and such unexpected surprise can take him unawares. Therefore, going on winter rest, be guided not only by your desires and possibilities, but also health.

Thalassotherapy
Thalassotherapy – all force of the sea directed for blessing to your health. It is an excellent idea for those who wish to combine business with pleasure: not only to have a rest, but also restore health, improve appearance.

Almost all centres of thalassotherapy offer various courses. For those who wish to gain strength, strengthen immunity and lift tone, there is a course of general improvement of organism. And if you got tired of tiresome work, stuffy megacity, and depressions continually overcome you, welcome to an  anti-stress course. Here you will be helped to remove accumulated stress, cope with chronic weariness, restore nervous system and gain strength again.

There is also a special program for interested to give up smoking. The sea is omnipotent. And thalassotherapy course will help you refusing nicotine and impart hostility to cigarettes.

Thalassotherapy is an alternative to various diets, wearisome trainings and super-modern preparations. Just imagine, having a rest on a resort, you can correct figure. In a combination to a light diet, thalassotherapy gives tremendous effect. It helps not only achieving result, but also supporting it.

A variety of different courses of treatment simply amazes. There is also a separate program for young mums. The course helps overcoming postnatal period easier, feeling fine, forget about weariness and excess weight. Thalassotherapy will be useful also to those who suffer from chronic diseases. For example, arthritis or rheumatism.

For fans of family rest
What can be better, than going on rest by all family?! Are there children in your family? Reject all stereotypes that rest with children is impossible. It is possible! Children can make winter rest really magic and unforgettable.

A trip home to Santa’s home will become an excellent gift for small children. Who did not dream of meeting with Santa since childhood? What can be more actual during New Year’s holidays? Plunge into a winter fairy tale together with your child.

Why not to visit a memorial estate, where you can certainly get acquainted with Santa’s residence, a fantastic ancestral land of grandfather of all children. You can be photographed for memory, participate in merry performance, and buy souvenirs for natives and friends.

While kids have fun and share their secrets with the Main Grandfather, adults can familiarise with sights.

Sensation of rest and pleasure so necessary to modern occupied and eternally hastening people, still will be your companion for a long time after visiting of fantastic and light city. Afford a meeting with miracle and plunge into childhood at least for a couple of days!

In a kingdom of snow queen
For certain many boys and girls, reading Andersen’s remarkable fairy tale «Snow queen», dreamt to visit a fantastic ice castle. Ice-skating on ice floors of palace and eating an icicle – isn’t it a cheerful and happy child’s dream?!
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Thanks to works and cares of sculptors and builders embodiment of this dream became quite possible. In Jukkasjarvi (Sweden) these experts built a real ice hotel. Tens tons of ice were required for building. Fortunately, the north is rich with these building materials.

Not only floors, ceilings and walls are icy in the hotel. Even furniture and ware are made from ice, and all this ice magnificence shines and sparkles with all colours of rainbow, refracting light rays.

You cannot photograph with flash: one flash, having reflected from infinite set of smooth surfaces, will make so much light, that no camera can sustain! But shots made without flash become a real decoration of any family album.

All visitors of icy hotel can spend a night in it, have dinner or supper. However, fans of heat and comfort are always offered quite traditional rooms in a hotel nearby.

Most progressive couples can even get married in a local ice church. There are many such romantic enamoured: they gather here from every corner of the globe. So, having decided to bring oaths of fidelity at an ice altar, take care that an ice temple’s attendant would have time: it crowns some hundreds of couples every year!

The fact that you are not required strict observance of already bored traditions here is also important: a newly-married couple can be dressed in sports or mountain-skiing suits, instead of a traditional white dress and tuxedo.

The program of entertainments offered by a hotel is various. Fans of fishing are waited by subglacial fishing, and young sculptors – ice and snow mountains, thirsting for touches of creator’s hand. Fans of fast driving are offered driving on sledge and excursion on snowmobiles.

To present a holiday to whole family – what can be easier? You just should not be afraid of frost, put on warm clothes, and go to Sweden, where a hospitable Ice hotel waits for its visitors.

Winter is not an occasion to sit at home, rest is not watching of telecasts. Arrange a real winter vacation for yourself, visit new places, gain new impressions and forces. Make this winter bright and unforgettable!