Switzerland - Next to Heaven

Switzerland - One of the most beautiful places in the most beautiful continent, i have ever been to. The name of the place itself takes me to the dream world. Wow what a beautiful name this place has been given. I am not sure who gave this name, but i am sure he might also have become dumbstruck to see the awesome beauty of the place called "Swiss". If you need to find more on Origin of name "Switzerland", google is the best option ;)..leaving up to you to post the answer.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that i will visit Switzerland in my life time. The dream which i never thought of, came true. Guggs and myself took an ICE train from Mannheim in Germany to Interlaken in Swiss - a small place in Switzerland which is famous for its huge snow claded mountains and the panoramic Alps View. One must visit this place in his life time.
As the border of Interlaken started, we could make out this could be none other than Switzerland. Huge lakes and mountains above them and the shadow of the mountains on the lakes was just an amazing and picturesque view.
When we got out of the train, it was drizzling a bit and we enjoyed every bit of drops directed to us by Interlaken. Boarded thebus and went to our hotel. Got refreshed and started our journey of marvelous mountains.
We visited the Tummelbach waterfall which is thw World Heritage sight of UNESCO. Fabulous place it is. It is a waterfall hidden in a mountain and a way is cut through the tunnels and mountains to the origin of the waterfall. It has been created in such a way that every step you take and gushing noise of water just tear your ears and it doesnt stop there. It keeps on flowing till your eyes can see them. A lift inclined at 45 degrees take you to a point of the waterfall from where you have to make your own way to reach its top. It was drizlling and the waterfall was also taking its own stride of making us wet. The water was flowing at the speed of 22000 tons litre per second. We can well imagine the speed of it and if anyone falls in it, no one can stop him from meeting God, then.LOL.

Next stop was the Top Of Europe "Jungfrau". It is the most scenic place i have ever seen in my life. The more closer you feel to heaven and God. Snow cladded mountains which i saw in the movies, i could feel them, touch them and even sleep on them. There was snow all over and i would say another world. The train takes to the top of Europe and thats the awesome experience of nature, silence, beauty.
Kisi ne sach hi kaha hai : Kashmir ke baad agar doosri janat hai to woh yahin hai yahin hai, yahin hai....but i have not seen Kashmir, so for me this is the Heaven....
Would like to visit this place once again in my life time

My experience of my first steps in Europe

I never thought that so soon in my life i will get a golden chance to visit the most beautiful continent in the world "EUROPE". I said most beautiful in the world becuase i havent seen more beautiful place than Europe in my life till now. All the credit of me able to visit that place goes to Guggs. For his project work, he got a chance to go to Germany and my plans got fixed after that. He went there for 3 months and for the last 15 days. i joined him for Europe trip.

It is a perfect vacation place. Those 15 days were the most enjoyable vacations in my life. Although i have been for vacations to many palces in India and also to Malaysia for my first HM, but this was simply amazing and we(Guggu and myself) call it as our second HM :) lol.
I heard about its beauty from people and saw it in many hindi movies especially DDLJ but when i saw it with my own eyes, I can say, it is more splendid than what i heard and saw till now. But i am not writing this blog to describe its beauty but my experience when i reached the land of panaromic views. Actually i cant stop myslef talking about Europe becuase it has left a lasting impression on my mind by its Charisma.

So, My first day of vacation started on July 27th 2006 when i took a flight for Frankfurt, Germany from Bangalore, India. I was very excited from the very beginning of the trip as I was going to meet Guggs after so many days. Although he came for 1 week in between to arrange for my visa and other things but that were not enough for both of us after 2 months of "Judaii".

The flight which was for 9hrs went off in sleeping. Whenever i got up in between, guggu was in my mind and i couldnt stop thinking of the ways as to what i will do when i meet see him first. Finally when i got up, i was in "Europe" :). Tarun was not able to recieve me at the airport due to some problem, that made me a lil :(, but the excitement to meet him overtook that sadness. After coming out of the airport, I took a cab and reached a place where i was supposed to meet Guggu. Guggu was late ;). I was standing outside some hotel. Guggu came and he didnt even smile, seeing me. I was shocked. What has happened to him? Why isnt he smiling? Why he is not excited. Why he is not running to give me a hug? All these questions were running in my mind, still smiling at him. Atlast he smiled and started to run and gave me a big big hug :) and i was so happy. But the questions didnt stop and i asked him about his weird behaviour. He said, he couldn't recognize me. WHAT? I asked him. Can you people(who know our love story) reading the blog, believe it. He didnt recognize me. Oh My God......The reason was i had a recent hair cut and hair got lil small than what i usually have ;).... Too much..Is'nt? So, this was my first experience. lol.