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WINTER SNOW FUN IN GERMANY
Ski, Sled, and Jump in the Alps Best Winter Playgrounds

Okay, so the globe is warming. The glaciers are receding. Polar bears are surfboarding on ice rafts with sunscreen on slathered on their noses. But you can still find a little snow in the Alps. Igloos, cross-country skiing, shooting the bobsled run and the ski jump are just some of the winter play sports activities in Germany. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Oberstorf, Ruhpolding and Berchtesgarden in Southern Germany offer new and revitalized winter sports centers for athletes, amateur snow enthusiasts and the whole family.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is the home of Germany’s dramatic Alps peak the Zugspitz with its year-round glacier and host to past Olympic downhills, but the former Olympic ski village has four new ski lifts taking alpine ski lovers to the top of the Hausberg and provides provides excellent cross-country skiing trails suitable for all levels. Garmish-Partenkirchen is one of the most popular winter resorts in Germany, located only about an hour south of Munich and home to a U.S. military base on the German-Austrian border.

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Get yourself a “Happy Ski Card” which conveniently covers all the ski lifts in Garmisch-Patenkirchen, Mittenwald, even the Zugspitze and alos provides admission to the Zugspitze Arena and Seefeld in Austria. After sunset you can take a midnight hike by lantern light in the spectacular Partenklammgorg. And if your feeling like you might want to rub noses with someone you love you can stay nearby in Germany’s first Igloo Village (See World's Highest Igloo Hotel) at the Zugspitz.

And if the bunny slope run isn’t enough to satisfy your speed lust. thrill-seekers looking for a rush can get a take a Bob Sled “taxi ride” the Renn-Bob on the runs at Berg Watzman in Ruhpolding, located a short distance away in eastern Bavaria. For about 80 Euro you can hop in an Olympic bob-sled as co-pilot with your skilled driver and race down the ice tunnel sled run at a heart-racing 120 kilometers an hour. Ruhpolding is a favorite top winter sports destination in it own right and hosts the Biathlon World Cup in 2007, from January 10 to January 14.

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And for the wild and brave true ski thrill seeker for whom letting someone else do the driving just isn’t enough, why not fly? Ski fly. It used to be called ski jumping but as world records increase and with new jump towers and technology flying on skis seems more accurate. At Oberstdorf (see Alps Ski Flying) in Allgau, the Oberstdorf Hieni-Klopfer ski flying tower is one of the few places in the world where amateurs can spread their ski wings. Oberstdorf is host to the Ski Flying World Cup this winter for 2007 January 27 & 28. 40,000 spectators are expected at "HeiniKlopfer" Arena for the gravity defying competition .© Bargain Travel Europe

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