Good news, you needn’t travel 18,000km to the French Alps for a magical snowcation. It’s as easy as finding a real-life snow dome in Australia , writes Christine Best On an alpine clearing amid stands of skeleton snow gums, three disco-ball domes hunch in the snow. Tramp past quickly and you might miss them, their hexagonal shells a mirror reflection of heaven and earth.
A huddle of timber shacks bows to a teepee, pulled into a tasselled elfin hat, and a campfire emits a festive glow. If Santa had a Southern Hemisphere hangout on his Christmas -in-July dash, this would be it. Alpine Nature Experience is a winter wonderland created by Jean-Francois Rupp, a Franco-Australian expat intent on bringing a touch of the European alps to Victoria’s High Country.
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