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Lake Geneva Region : Geneva, Montreux & Golden Pass Train

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  Taking you to a visit to this city built on the shore of Lake Geneva and divided by the Rhone River. A city which is bestowed with natural beauty, the center of diplomatic activity, built with best architectural structures and a gateway to French experience. It was part of our weekend visits during summer intern at ETH Zurich and was indeed an awesome time spent with friends. So come with me and explore the charm of this Swiss-French region.  The great Big-bang experiment was trending on the News and it was this time when we were visiting Geneva for a day trip. The great CERN lab where the experiment was undertaken on the gigantic Large Hadron Collider situated in this region of the world. We took the Bahn – train - from Zurich Hauptbahnhof (railway station) on the beautiful morning of 2nd August. Again it was the usual gang of me, DU, Akhil, and Nitin. As you know from my other posts on Switzerland trips, we used day pass for our travel and hence we always tried to take the earliest...

Picturesque Pokhara - Enchanting Nepal Part 2

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After some sightseeing and time spent in Kathmandu, it was time to get into the depth of Nepal and so were our forthcoming days aiming to get to Pokhara and spend some time there. I hope you all have had an experience of first part of the Nepal trip with the post on Kathmandu . If you haven’t by now, go back and probably you would enjoy this post a bit more about the context from there. Anyway, in short, we reached Kathmandu on 29th of April 2014, Amit’s birthday and spent a day seeing the city. Now the next leg of the journey was a visit to Pokhara. While Kathmandu is like a rushed, populated and metropolitan capital of the country, Pokhara is a getaway scenic city in the lap of Himalayas with an awesome view of its peaks. On the 31st morning, we got up, as usual, a bit early because of the excitement of what was in store for us as we get out of the capital of Nepal. Honestly speaking, though Kathmandu was good, we were really looking forward to getting out of the city to have an expe...