by New packages include hug-a-glacier therapy and chai-flavored ice baths.
Kashmir has unveiled a new campaign to attract tourists fleeing Delhi’s apocalyptic summer. According to The Times of India, Snow Tourism offers city dwellers a chance to hug glaciers, drink tea in minus ten degrees, and complain about Wi-Fi instead of heat.
Packages start at ?49,999 and include insulated selfies, snowball meditation, and a local guide who assures everyone the cold builds character.
Tourism Minister Altaf Lone says the initiative is about emotional climate change. If Delhi people can melt ice with their complaints, he said, we’ll never run out of water.
Hotels are reporting record bookings from exhausted IT workers. One guest described the experience as spiritual hypothermia.
Locals welcome the influx but worry the visitors might try to import snow back home. They asked if we sell it in plastic bags, said one shopkeeper. I told themthis is Kashmir, not Costco.
Officials plan to expand the program next year with Polar Yoga and Subzero Spa Sundays.
SOURCE: Bohiney.com (Radhika Vaz)
