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Snowy Mountains, Australia
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Crackenback is an up-and-coming resort area in the Snowy Mountains region of southeastern New South Wales.
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Horse-riding in a sub-Alpine wilderness area – something you'd expect to do in Wyoming, not New South Wales.
French farmhouse cuisine. Also offers B&B lodging.
Distillers of schnapps, vodka and gin, although tastings are only available for the sickly sweet fruit liqueurs: try the habanero-and-apple Flame Tongue if you need to clear your sinuses. Open daily, while the Stillhouse cafe opens Thursday to Monday.
The first resort built in the area.
4-star "habitats" plonked down on a hillside about 10 minutes' drive from both Jindabyne and the Skitube. Well equipped with heated floors, BBQ, gas fireplace etc, but the entire building shakes like an earthquake whenever a gust of wind blows through.
Crackenback is around 6 hours by road from both Sydney (via Canberra) and Melbourne. The only access road to Crackenback is the Alpine Way between Jindabyne (NSW) and Towong (Victoria).
Read in the guideThere is no public transport in this neck of the woods, so you pretty much need to have your own car.
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