Sunday, December 14, 2008

My Switzerland Trip


At the Jungfraujoch railway in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland...

The Jungfrau (German: "maiden/virgin") is the highest peak of a mountain massif of the same name, located in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps, overlooking Wengen...

Strictly, the Jungfraujoch is the lowest point on the mountain ridge between Mönch and Jungfrau, at 3471 m. It is just above this location that the mountain station of Jungfraubahn is located, Jungfraujoch railway station, which at an elevation of 3,454 metres is the highest railway station in Europe. The Jungfraujoch is often called the "Top of Europe" in tourist literature...


Fighting with the strong wind up at the first level of Jungfrajoch...


no joke, it is rather cold up there and the air was thin too. Out of thirty over people in our group, only 7 of us make it to the top of Jungfraujoch....

thank god! it was not too windy up here at the top level of Jungfraujoch...

Unlike in level one, the weather was extremely kind at the top level of Jungfraujoch...



The Ice Palace - Eispalast Palaris de glace ...

one last pic at the Ice Palace before heading down...


The Kapellbrücke ("Chapel Bridge" in German) is a 204 m (670 ft) long bridge crossing the Reuss River in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. It the oldest road bridge in Europe which was built in the fourteenth-century...


In the early hours of August 18, 1993, a small boat moored alongside the bridge caught fire and, in one of the most dramatic spectacles in the city’s recent history, the flames rapidly spread to engulf the whole structure. By dawn, virtually the entire bridge had been destroyed, with only the bridgeheads on both banks surviving. The authorities rapidly set about reconstruction, and an identical replacement was completed nine months later – though today it’s still easy to see where the old wood meets the new...


The Lion Monument in Lucerne is a giant dying lion carved out of a wall of sandstone rock above a pond at the east end of the medieval town. It was designed as a memorial for the mercenary soldiers from central Switzerland who lost their lives while serving the French king Louis XVI during the French Revolution.


posing with a Lucerene sweetie...



lucerene nite view...



interlaken the gate-way to Jungfrau...


Jungfra as seen from the open field of interlaken...


strolling down the street of interlaken...


The famous 12th century clock tower in the city of Bern, Switzerland..


a far view of the clock tower..


at the street directly behind the clock tower..



Kornhausbrucke bridge, Bern, Switzerland..


Nydegg bridge, bern...


an old city of bern...

Albert Einstein's apartment.



This is the apartment where Einstein once lived. No: 49, Kramgasse is nestled in a row of modest low rise residential buildings in Bern. The rooms are now a museum.


The Federal Assembly building was built in Renaissance style in 1902. It has "Curia Confoederationis Helveticae" inscribed on it. The building sits on a cliff edge above the river Aare. The Bundeshaus or House of Parliament, is the seat of Swiss Government. The oldest part of the building, the west wing, dates back to 1856. The central connecting portion of the structure that connects the East and the West wing was completed in 1902.


Bucherer, Geneva


...the street of Geneva


The Jet d' Eau, or water jet, is a large fountain in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the city's most famous landmarks.


lake Geneva..


the famous flower clock at Geneva.


looking across at Bucherer from the flower clock...

2 comments:

AlbertoYusuf said...

you gave me an idea of blogging to every city I go to and the history of it...thanks pal...great place you been too

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