What can make a good celebration than swissing into the breath-taking sceneries surrounded by tremendous sky height
Alps? I did just that!
This time to Vevey-Montreux on the dead end of Geneva lake just 30mins from my place Lausanne! We chose trains that stop almost at every stop even very small ones that bearly have any passengers in or out! We see the timetables and roam around the place till the next train arrives! There are at least 6 to 7 stops in a distance of less than 30kms thus no one has a train station very far! o
nly few trains stop in all stops. We stopped at Cully before reaching Vevey. We visited another village in return. All these villages have barely tens of houses located in between wine yards. This region constitutes around 20% of total swiss wine i guess.
We were clueless where to go in Vevey. I asked in the train ticket counter and the gentlemen there was very helpful gave me the map of the city and marked some locations worth visiting. Vevey was wonderful with houses located on the very tall moutains here and there right in the city. The whole surroundings on the lake gave a unique exp. That beauty attracted many celebrities from hollywood and elsewhere who got permanent houses on the shore of the lake. Charlie Chaplin stayed almost 25 years of his later part of life and died here itself. Michale Jackson tried to buy a very old (almost a dead) building lying on the lakeside.
After couple of hours, we started to Montreux. My long-time unfulfilled desire to travel in a boat in the Geneva lake was finally honored! We went to Montreux from Vevey in boat. The boat journey gives u the complete picture of the city... I could spot a magnificent Mysore palace kind of building on top of a huuuge mountain of height more than 2kms!! The building appears to be built in clouds itself!!
Hold on! there is a train to that height for 30chf up and down!! oh Gooooood!
i dont miss it next time i go there. Geneva lake has even more beautiful feathers in its cap!!
The whole Montreux place is a very favored tourist spot. Irrespective of bad weather, there are very big crowds in the restaurants, and on lakeside. We walked walked walked along the lake to reach a castle almost at the dead end of Geneva lake. The castle was outstanding but more beautiful castles are there in India! There is a very looooooong bridge appearing to be connecting two moutains...that is the highway to reach yet more great places of swiss. From the castle, i could spot a big factory on top of a huge mountain on the other side. I felt no height is unconquerable to these ppl! We explored the city around the castle too. I was completely exhausted after walking for so much of time. Finally started coming back. It started raining suddenly! Still we could make to couple of villages in return giving a fantastic finishing touch to the journey.
I decided to go to one of those villages with my new bike (!!! they call bicycles as bikes! i started bike2work since last week). Ppl travel for 100s of kms just like that on bikes. It is very popular here. So are the bike thieves. They steal bikes very frequently and if the can not, they take away at least the tires or the seat. Oh! poor swiss!! it never happens in India!!
It was another looooooooong session of photos! we took around 750 photos in a day! This time my Sony was not there as it was dead in my Indian trip! I didnt join my friends to Geneva the next day, as weather was too bad.
Come on!! Stop reading!! Have a sip of the beauty here
http://picasaweb.google.com/n.rammohan2/MontreuxVeveyMay2707
Alps? I did just that!
This time to Vevey-Montreux on the dead end of Geneva lake just 30mins from my place Lausanne! We chose trains that stop almost at every stop even very small ones that bearly have any passengers in or out! We see the timetables and roam around the place till the next train arrives! There are at least 6 to 7 stops in a distance of less than 30kms thus no one has a train station very far! o
nly few trains stop in all stops. We stopped at Cully before reaching Vevey. We visited another village in return. All these villages have barely tens of houses located in between wine yards. This region constitutes around 20% of total swiss wine i guess.We were clueless where to go in Vevey. I asked in the train ticket counter and the gentlemen there was very helpful gave me the map of the city and marked some locations worth visiting. Vevey was wonderful with houses located on the very tall moutains here and there right in the city. The whole surroundings on the lake gave a unique exp. That beauty attracted many celebrities from hollywood and elsewhere who got permanent houses on the shore of the lake. Charlie Chaplin stayed almost 25 years of his later part of life and died here itself. Michale Jackson tried to buy a very old (almost a dead) building lying on the lakeside.
After couple of hours, we started to Montreux. My long-time unfulfilled desire to travel in a boat in the Geneva lake was finally honored! We went to Montreux from Vevey in boat. The boat journey gives u the complete picture of the city... I could spot a magnificent Mysore palace kind of building on top of a huuuge mountain of height more than 2kms!! The building appears to be built in clouds itself!!
Hold on! there is a train to that height for 30chf up and down!! oh Gooooood!
i dont miss it next time i go there. Geneva lake has even more beautiful feathers in its cap!!
The whole Montreux place is a very favored tourist spot. Irrespective of bad weather, there are very big crowds in the restaurants, and on lakeside. We walked walked walked along the lake to reach a castle almost at the dead end of Geneva lake. The castle was outstanding but more beautiful castles are there in India! There is a very looooooong bridge appearing to be connecting two moutains...that is the highway to reach yet more great places of swiss. From the castle, i could spot a big factory on top of a huge mountain on the other side. I felt no height is unconquerable to these ppl! We explored the city around the castle too. I was completely exhausted after walking for so much of time. Finally started coming back. It started raining suddenly! Still we could make to couple of villages in return giving a fantastic finishing touch to the journey.
I decided to go to one of those villages with my new bike (!!! they call bicycles as bikes! i started bike2work since last week). Ppl travel for 100s of kms just like that on bikes. It is very popular here. So are the bike thieves. They steal bikes very frequently and if the can not, they take away at least the tires or the seat. Oh! poor swiss!! it never happens in India!!
It was another looooooooong session of photos! we took around 750 photos in a day! This time my Sony was not there as it was dead in my Indian trip! I didnt join my friends to Geneva the next day, as weather was too bad.
Come on!! Stop reading!! Have a sip of the beauty here
http://picasaweb.google.com/n.rammohan2/MontreuxVeveyMay2707
5 comments:
wonderful...ur xplanation is more exciting than the photos..keep it up..
i will be reading ur blogs quite often from now onwards
Wow...
YES !! You are lucky to be there - in Swiss. keep posting ..
nice ra.
I was able to really live those places. keep writing your travel logs.
and ofcourse, needless to say, post the links to the pics as well.
this one you already posted i think ..
Hi, I'm Gaurav, travelling here on business and have a weekend. Didn't have time to plan it ahead.. wandering around i ended up at your blogs and got good info. Want to thank you for that.
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