As
concerns infrastructure,
Zermatt is a great deal. From every
day
commodities to the most valuable swiss made watches you are offered
anything
money can buy.There were times when even the swiss tourists themselves
complained about zermatt being an expensive and unfriendly village:
«Sometimes
we feel that they expect us to bring in the money and get off
immediately.»
But with an increasing number of concurrent skiing areas this attitude
has changed very much recently. Seldom we have been
welcomed more heartily to the ski-fields. There is music on the air
when
you lift uphill. And once I were personally accompanied by the local
staff
when I was the only guy that arrived at
Gant in stormy weather
-
and all of the cable cars were taken to garage.
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What
you get in Zermatt is worth the money. There are
some more considerations that are of great importance. One is a
skiing
area that is never crowded. As there are hardly any one-day-tourists
(except
those from the italian side), all the slopes and cable cars are
moderately
frequented. Another is a scenery unrivaled, an altitude that guarantees
for good snow conditions and a village free from combustion engines.
Thanks
to very special electric motor cars and horse drawn vehicles there is
quite a lot of traffic, though.
The price for one of those hand-made cars is pretty high, so life is
very expensive here - not only for tourists.
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Easter 2000: The pictures look like
summer holidays. Every morning the scenery in front of our chalet,
named
Alpengruss,
differs. From 5 inches of fresh snow to deep green grass after heavy
rain, every morning is a new day.
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Easter 2007: A new gondola with 8 confortable
seats establishes the connection from
Furri to
Riffelberg
and, therefore, for the first time the counter clockwise way through
the skiing area. This means speed skiing at the Theodulgletscher in the
morning and jumping on mogul slopes at Stockhorn about an hour later!
There is no need any more for starting at Sunnegga to make a tour through the whole area. You can do it counterclockwise now.
As
concerns infrastructure, Zermatt is a great deal. From every
day
commodities to the most valuable swiss made watches you are offered
anything
money can buy.There were times when even the swiss tourists themselves
complained about zermatt being an expensive and unfriendly village:
«Sometimes
we feel that they expect us to bring in the money and get off
immediately.»
But with an increasing number of concurrent skiing areas this attitude
has changed very much recently. Seldom we have been
welcomed more heartily to the ski-fields. There is music on the air
when
you lift uphill. And once I were personally accompanied by the local
staff
when I was the only guy that arrived at Gant in stormy weather
-
and all of the cable cars were taken to garage.
*
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