Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Beauty of Switzerland

As a mountainous country, more than half of Swiss territory at an altitude of 1,200 meters. The lowest region is Ascona with only 196 meters altitude, while the highest point in Switzerland is the top Dufour 4634 meters. Around 100 peaks in the Swiss Alps have a height of more than 4000 meters and more than 1,800 glaciers with snow line above 2500 meters altitude. This then led to Switzerland as the famous country with mountain tourism and about 60 percent of tourism activities are in the Alps. Switzerland is famous for mountain tourism and banking business, other than products of luxury wristwatches and pocket knife quality and expensive. Swiss watch, a product which is a community pride symbol timing information, technology and high-quality art.


Traveling with Eurorail tickets you can do since the early days of Luxembourg and the Netherlands through the day enjoying the festival, stop by the ancient tradition of the Medieval era were held in the Old Town area. Luxembourg has the castles on the edge of the abyss that has a unique role of 16th century until the year 1867 in European history. This ancient region now includes one of Europe's greatest fortresses protected by UNESCO.

The journey continues to Switzerland by train in the morning with sleeperette facilities for sleeping. Public transport in Switzerland is the most convenient and timely is the electric-powered trains. The accuracy of the train schedule so typical of the quality of services known as "It is like a Swiss watch!"


Tourism information is available at each station strategic places in detail, complete and accurate, including the schedule and price and service-class variations. Each is designed with interesting information, plus maps and landscape drawings which clearly indicates the location information and the type of transportation used. For tourists for the first time to Switzerland, a tourist destination choices depend on the information obtained.

Alps are popular tourist areas in Switzerland. Go to this area, you'll pass several lakes. Interlaken is a small town situated between two lakes, Bienzersee and Thunersee. A small town with a beautiful view of the Alpine peaks, such as the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. From this city, you can choose to continue the journey to the last villages in the Alps or enjoy a tour of the lake water. Water activities are very popular attractions such as sailing and cruising to visit tourist objects along the edge of the lake while enjoying the panorama of snowy mountain peaks series from a distance.

Switzerland has hundreds of lakes are naturally formed by the folds of the mountains and the glaciers. Many important cities located on the edge of the lake, such as Zurich, Geneva, Nauchbtel, Montreux, Lausanne and Lucerne. Hiking or walking through the countryside and hills of the Alps is tourism activities of the most popular sport. There are at least 50,000 points which is the path that the network is equipped with information maps and directions are clear yellow color. This guide contains information about the destination, mileage, travel time and altitude. Restaurants and hotels scattered in various corners of rural and edge of the Alps with a variety of quality and class, starting a five-star to farmers strawhuis hut.

Each city has its own uniqueness as a tourist destination, such as Zermatt and Saas-Fee is only 12 kilometers away. Zermat offers a summer package tours and winter ski resort with Klein Matterhorn at around 3800 meters high using a cable car, the Saas-Fee offers attractive packages to use Metro trains Alps.

Had not Zermatt panorama of the Matterhorn peak and unique pursed like horns, Saas-Fee must be tough competitors as a tourist destination because it has a panorama of peaks Dom and Monte Rosa is the highest in Switzerland.

There are several areas that show no less beautiful landscape. Grinderwald who became jagged base station to the Jungfraujoch, which is the village of Murren last thing to be terminal to the Schilthorn cable car. There Sphink at Jungfraujoch meteorology research laboratory, the Schilthorn area you served a 360-degree panoramic view of the Alps or the peaks of more than 200 pieces, ranging from the Alps to the Bernse Mont Blanc in France all around you.

Geneva, international city located on the banks of the lake Lac Liman, a Mont Blanc is an Alpine peak 4807 meters high. Mont Blanc peak is actually located outside the territory of Switzerland, precisely in the small town of Chamonix in the French and Italian border. Panorama Mont Blanc peak is very attractive if you look at it from Geneva, which became the name of many restaurants, hotels, cruises. In this area that many rich people from all over the world enjoy the luxury of living in the lake water is flat and snowy peaks looming.

Every now and then enjoy the sensation and the romance worthy of the mountains in the Alps you try in this area. This paper does not quite represent it you feel when you go step your feet.

2 comments:

Dio on September 30, 2009 at 11:49 PM said...

I've never been there, i've Heard Switzerland is the good place to be. :)

traveltoparadise on October 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM said...

yea, if u are live in Austria or Germany,simply get there by train...beautiful place...thank u for visiting...:) cheers..

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