Cold Tourist Places
More and more tourists who are traveling in cold regions, more and more are interested in these foreign land, the experience of winter that they can’t enjoy on any beach.
Iglu hotels, northern lights, husky sleigh rides, these are just some of the popular cold tourism attractions:
1. Perito Moreno Glacier
Nature is remarkably spectacular and you won’t find it anywhere else in South America, except on Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia. Not only is the glacier beautiful to behold, but its transforming shape makes new crevices even more beautiful.
Perito Moreno should be viewed from November to March when Patagonia is at tourist season. However, September to mid-April is comfortable in terms of temperatures and sun.
It is the most popular tour, giving the chance to experience a glacier on foot and then in crampons, trekking up its side. You will be speechless with awe; tours by boat (watch for signs ‘Navegacion’) give similar view for the same cost.
2. Lake Bled
Bled is a lovely Slovenian town with a lake. Although what you can see in person is just as good as what you can see on pictures, during the busy times of year, it can get crowded and swarming with people.
Perhaps one of the most popular is to see the main island of Lake Superior. Atop is a cute church, and if you make a wish on the bell!
Straza Hill: the sunset view of Lake Garda and surrounding areas, which can also be hiked or by chairlift.
Visiting during winter? Visit the Christmas market on Lake Carniola promenade – it is a good place to buy both local Upper Carniola food and exclusive Christmas gifts!
3. Oymyakon
Only a few people brave the cold, living in Oymyakon, nearer to the Arctic Circle and the North Pole than any other city in its immediate neighbourhood.
Homesteaders can survive in this manner thanks to their labour and shrewdness, as reindeer farmers, hunters, ice fishermen and micro-entrepreneurs – and Amos Chapple from New Zealand came to see what life was like under these conditions.
He learned that locals were a little sceptical of the chill, but soon got used to it. They went layer-on-layer, barefaced, and they ate reindeer meat and frozen fish – not starvation, because the animals supply them with sufficient micronutrients in milk; and they have one store, post office and school that’s open all winter.
4. Verkhoyansk
In the Sakha Republic (Yakutiya) in Russia, Verkhoyansk is a fascinating, rural, traditional Yakutian village where people have managed to survive in one of the coldest regions of the planet. The combination of extreme climate and unique culture also makes Verkhoyansk a very popular destination for travel.
City winters also see temperature inversions as air is near the surface of the earth and the resultant cold snap is low temperatures Fahrenheit that cause ice build-up on roofs and pavements and can freeze cars in snow if they collide while driving down city streets.
In the summertime, the temperature could rise as much 40 degrees above freezing — because Oymyakon has a different geography — since it is further north than Oymyakon. Also, this is one of the highest recorded summer-winter temperature differences in history, and there are abundant shades in its nature reserves with taiga forests, tundra, river valleys and reindeer, brown bears and polar bears.
