Two-day snow carnival started in the Jammu & Kashmir tourist resort on Tuesday 3.1.2009.
many events like ice skating, ice hockey, snow rugby, snow cycling, snow bike racing and martial arts on the schedule during the two-day festival of Gulmarg (Jammu & Kasmir) in India.
More than 2,000 tourists, including around 200 foreigners, are in the resort to enjoy the beauty and witness the various sporting events being held during the festival.
Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora declared the festival open.
The participants for the two-day events are local sports persons.
"The aim is to attract more and more participants for winter sports and also the tourists for whom Gulmarg has always been a dream winter destination," said Shabir Ahmad, an official of the tourism department.
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