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Italy Rome

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 18, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Luxury / Comfort travel

🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 It was almost the end of my trip. I reached to Rome by train from Florence. Rome was one of the very few bad travel experiences in my life. I was defrauded £500. I spent 2.5 days in Rome. The the most romantic of all Roman fountains. It was designed by the outstanding architect Nicole Salvi in 1732. The statue in the middle is the God Ocean with winged horses drawing his cockleshell. The old tradition says that throwing a coin into the fountain ensures your return to Rome. Capitol is the…

Vatican City

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:December 17, 2008
Post category:City Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Italy 🇮🇹Landscape Luxury / Comfort travel

🇻🇦 🇻🇦 🇻🇦 This is the world's smallest independent state and headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church lying in the very heart of Rome on the west bank of the Tiber river. It is a walled city with six tremendous gates comprising of the Vatican Palace, St. Peter's Square, St Peter's Basilica and the Papal Gardens. I walked from my hotel towards Vatican. I crossed Ponte Sant'Angelo, the bridge which spans the river Tiber. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached…

Glacier Express

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:November 25, 2008
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure Switzerland 🇨🇭travel

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 After Haut route trek I spent 2 nights in Zermatt. From Zermatt I traveled by Glacier express to St. Mortiz. There are four sections from Zermatt to St- Mortiz. Section 1: Zermatt to Brig The journey starts near the Matterhorn, in the car free mountain village of Zermatt, at an altitude of 1605 m. The Matter valley leads to the town of Visp and is quite narrow at many places, with massive rock walls rising up to well over 4000 m. The highest peaks of the Swiss Alps can be found in…

Disnyland France

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:March 23, 2008
Post category:Europe 🌍Family / Leisure France 🇫🇷Luxury / Comfort

🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 This is about 30 kilometer from Paris consists of two theme parks , Disneyland parks and Walt Disney Studio parks. Disneyland parks first of the two opened in 1992 . The park is organised as "themes" , "Adventureland", "Fantasyland", "Frontierland", "Discoveryland" and many rides within each of these themes. Disney Studio opened in 2002 . Other than themes organised across many different Disney production , there are many different shows. The most spectacular one was car and bike show. A stunt show that showed how action movies are filmed,…