Zurich (“Zu-reich” in German means too rich), the business and cultural capital of Switzerland, lies at the north end of Zurich Lake, in the valley formed by the ridges of Uetliberg on the west and Zurichberg on the east. Extending along both sid... Read More

Lucerne (Luzern in German), is situated on the western tip of Lake Lucerne, which lies at the geographical and spiritual heart of Switzerland, where the tops of the mountains are covered with snow and their sides flanked with glaciers. Standing at th... Read More

It all happened in a jiffy. Our daughter, Shaguna, who was doing a project along with three of her colleagues at Geneva, called my wife and asked if it would be convenient for her and me to visit Switzerland for a couple of weeks. Eager to see ... Read More

After the fairly long journey getting to Jungfrau (3 separate trains is no joke), you reach the underground train station (in fact, a large portion of the infrastructure at Jungfrau, is underground - or more accurately, built into the side of the mou... Read More

The next morning in Luzern, our destination was Mount Pilatus (wikipedia, official site). Mount Pilatus is another famous tourist site in Switzerland, located near the top of a mountain peak. Pilatus has the longest summer toboggan track in Switzerla... Read More

The previous installment of this series covered reaching the small city of Interlaken in Switzerland, and the disappointment of not being able to do the cruise on the same day since we were too late. Anyhow, we drowned our sorrows the first day in so... Read More

We were involved in the daily grind of office, and were really needing a break. The initial plan was to plan a trip to Switzerland by end of September, and there was some careful planning going on, although at a slow place (September end was after al... Read More

In a previous post, I had covered our trip to Jungfrau. The return was a bit of an anti-climax, since the line to the train was long, and we were tired. However, as we started the gamut of 3 trains that take one back to Interlaken, the energy started... Read More

Our stay in the city of Interlaken done (and the hotel reservations having run out), we decided to move to our next destination, the city of Lucerne (also known by the German name of Luzern). We were taking a train near noon from Interlaken (after ha... Read More

Background Let me brief you on how i got chance to go for a day trip to Zermatt. I was on an official trip to Switzerland for 3 and half month in 2004, roughly August to November. We were working in Geneva for a bank. The project was almost over a... Read More

How will you feel or react when in an unknown country all of a sudden you are singled out and with no fault of yours, asked to leave it ASAP ? Seriously, when the local police speaking in a foreign language (to you, not to them silly ! ), looking at... Read More

For me and my wife, every visit to Switzerland has only one question repeating itself all the time not only when we are there but also after our return - ì Why canít we make Switzerland our permanent homeî. It is too beautiful to be true and ev... Read More

“I'm afraid of heights”...I mumbled. He gave me a WTF look.. Are you kidding? He probably wanted to ask. He was not wrong. Here I was going to jump off the cliff in few minutes. how the hell was he going to believe that I was actually scared of h... Read More

[caption id="attachment_28564" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="A view from the train"][/caption] DDLJ rocked with its trend-setting shooting locations in Switzerland and I, like many Indians, began dreaming about it ever since then :) My dr... Read More

My love for writing was paused by my travel to India. When with folks, I just wouldn't want to do anything else :) However, as soon as I got back to Germany, I am back now with my fondest hobby - blogging :) My travel to Switzerland was in the mo... Read More

Day 3: After two wonderfully spent days, we decided to capture the beauty of Switzerland from a bird's eye view.. How? well, we decided to fly like a bird.. To glide through and to feel the freshness in the air! Para-gliding @ Interlaken!! We had ... Read More