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Luxor: Balloon ride over Kings Valley

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:February 9, 2012
Post category:Adventure Africa 🌍City Egypt 🇪🇬travel

🇪🇬 🇪🇬 🇪🇬 Mansoor told me, “you should definitely do a balloon ride in Luxor”. I was not sure ; $150 sounded expensive. He finally convinced me. Next morning at 4 AM a mini bus came to pick us up. They collected people from various hotels and then took us outside city. The ground was huge. All companies operate from here. There were probably close to 100 balloon which were getting ready to be air-borne. We went up at the break of dawn. Weather was cold and bit foggy. It was amazing to watch first rays…

Montreux – Rochers de Naye

Post author:Anwesha Gupta
Post published:December 22, 2011
Post category:Adventure Europe 🌍Hilly /Mountains Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 It was a cold and windy night when we started on our journey to Switzerland. Coming out of our apartment, we could feel the chill wind rattling our bones. My hubby looked into his watch n said, “It’s already 3 am and we are late.” So we hurried down the road to catch our night bus towards Heathrow airport. After a sleepy journey of nearly 2 hrs we reached the airport and found that check-in counters do not open before 6:00am. My hubby explained, in London, unlike in India flights do…

Hiking around St. Mortiz

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 21, 2008
Post category:Adventure City Europe 🌍Landscape Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 I arrived in St Mortiz at the evening . It was a long train ride from Zermatt by Glacier Express. My home for next 2 - 3 days was St . Mortiz youth hostel. St. Mortiz is a luxury resort town which has hosted winter Olympic twice. Its frozen lake hosts cricket , polo during winter. The food was awesome at the youth hostel. Next day I went for a walk to Piz Nair. I took Funicular from St. Mortiz to Upper Corviglia station. From the upper station of the Corviglia…

Bernina Express : St. Mortiz – Tirano – Lugano – St. Mortiz

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:September 27, 2008
Post category:Adventure Europe 🌍Italy 🇮🇹Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 This was a day trip from St. Mortiz. There are few variation of the line , I took the Bernina line. The train leaves St. Moritz and takes the line to Pontresina (1,774 m) in the Val Bernina (Bernina Valley). It ascends progressively through the valley to the Bernina Pass over the Morteratsch station (1,896 m), where the glacier and the highest summit of the Eastern Alps, Piz Bernina (4,093 m) are visible. Before arriving at the Bernina Pass, the train stops at Bernina Diavolezza (2,093 m) for cable-car connections to Diavolezza (2,921 m). The Bernina Express reaches the summit at the Ospizio Bernina station at 2,253…