During rainy and windy day in Sydney I was looking that to do during winter as it is too cold go to the beach and was no much fun to do anything else out doors during such weather as even sea was too rough for whale watching in Sydney<\/a>. One weekend I spent in Canberra<\/a>, but that to do next weekend?
I know you can go skiing in New Zealand, but you need to buy plane tickets in advance to get good deals, so I started to look for such activities in Australia. Tasmania has similar climate to New Zealand and it has mountains and I thought it should be ski area there. But to my surprise the best ski resort in Australia are located much closer to Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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There are ski fields in Tasmania and Victoria, but the largest ski fields are in New South Wales on the boarder with Victoria state and actually the first ski club in the world<\/a> in 1861 was established in Snowy Mountains in Australia. Who could thought Australia has such long history of skiing? Both resorts are located somewhere in the middle between Sydney and Melbourne and only ~60 kilometers (~40 miles) away from each other, so you can visit both on your trip to snowy mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two largest downhill ski resorts are located not far from highest peak (Mt Kosciuszko) in Australia. Thredbo ski resort<\/a> has longest ski run and Perisher ski resort<\/a> has largest ski fields – 12 square kilometers (4.6 sq miles) and it calls itself as largest ski resort in Souther hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Going](\"https:\/\/www.shorttraveltips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/skiing-snowboarding-down-perisher-peak-Australia.jpg\")