Snow Capped Mountain

Back with another travel/photography related entry this time. I guess I will continue writing even though I might only have 2 readers.

I was looking through some of my old photos of my travel to Peru and Tibet and I realised although Swiss is the country famous for snow capped mountain, surprisingly Peru and Tibet have some of the more exotic ones comparing to Swiss. 

Snow mountain in Peru

Blamed it on my forgotten geography knowledge, I kind of forgot that part of the Andes mountain lies in Peru. When I was in Peru a few years back during winter, we were lucky that the good weather permitted us to see such stunning view during my two weeks stay. I can only imagine something like the above in paintings or CGI but yes, such view is actually real!

Snow mountain along the way to Tibet

 As Tibet is located at the heart of the Himalayas mountain, spotting snow capped mountains are quite a common sight along the road from Lhasa to Zhangmu. What we actually missed out during our trip was to see Everest upclose from the Everest Base Camp.

Snow mountain in Grindelwald

Switzerland is a country first famous for the snow capped mountain and second is still the snow capped mountain! Anyone who had never seen snow, dreamt of coming here for the view and not forgetting skiing during winter. This photo was captured 4 years back but the memory of standing right in front of this view in Grindelwald, at the moment was still surreal up until today. It almost, actually certainly feel that I was transported into Heidi, a story I used to love to read when I was young.

So which view do you love most? For me, I can't decide :)

Reflection

One of my favourite 'must shoot' scenary would be reflections.

Reflections could be from the water (which are most of my photos), glass, mirrors, etc.

What so special of photographing a mirror image of a subject? Just check out the photos and see.

The photo which started it all
Florence, Italy 2008

And also from this
Zaans Schans, Holland 2008


Versallies Palace, France 2008


Stockholm, Sweden 2009


Nile river sunrise, Egypt 2009


The Parliament at Bern, Swiss 2009


townhall at Basel, Swiss 2009


Pamukkale, Turkey 2009


Copenhagen, Denmark 2009


View of the Frederiskborg Castle, Denmark 2009


Nyhavn at Copenhagen, Denmark 2009


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010


Inside the Alcazar garden
Seville, Spain 2009


Alhambra, Granada Spain 2009


And of course my most famous picture
Lake Titicaca, Peru 2009


Yosemite National Park, USA 2007


During the highland tour, Scotland 2008


View from my safari lodge
Kruger Park, South Africa 2010


Kruger Safari, South Africa 2010


Swaziland 2010


View from the cable car
Lantau Island, Hong Kong 2010


Wan Chai harbour, Hong Kong 2010


Storm, my cousin's dog
CNY 2011

Biel & Basel

After the highlight of Swiss alps, finally my travelmate and I were in talking terms..she suggested to visit this little vineyard near Biel and then to Basel from there on. All I know about Basel is that's where all the banking guidelines are formed..at least I guess so..or at least Basel is like a financial centre since they have the infamous Basel II

We wander around the vineyard as the grapes are still young and amazed with such simple scenary. Then we took the local train to Basel and wonder around the old town on foot. We visited this bright red Town Hall which practically is the only famous landmark in Basel . They have a so call mini Venice but ......

Biel

Wondering around the vineyard

Basel old town


the town hall

Jungfrauhoch (29 May 2009)

almost there

Top of Europe.. the view along the whole journey is super super beautiful. Even words could not describe my feelings when I was travelling up to the top. The train ticket to the top is super expensive costing bout 160 CHF (I travelled from Bern) which is like more than RM 300 bucks...and me being a very kiasu Malaysian girl decided to take the second earliest train from Bern to maximise my time up there. So there I dump my travelmate who prefer to sleep a few more hours and travel 3 hours from Bern. The view from Lauterbrunn is straight from Riverndell of LOTR with pretty waterfall. It's pity that I did not stop here for a quick photo. Along the way I met this Chinese girl who was also travelling alone. It's funny that later on I bumped into my travel mate on the top. The scenary is gorgeous, spectacular and freezing cold eventhough it's already late May.. also for the first time I saw so much snow...

Some tips: sit at the right side of the train from Lauterbrunnen as you can view the beautiful snow capped mountain. I decided to take the Lauterbrunnen route up and the Grindelwald route down as I wanted to hike to the Bachalpsee lake.

snow everywhere

I am above the clouds


I m on top of Europe


getting ready for my snowboarding




wheeeeey

Later on, I stop at Grindelwald on the way down. Initially I planned to hike to the Bachalpsee lake for the mirror image lake but sadly it was still frozen..and instead I stop at the first stop via the First cable. It was highly recommended here as well as I felt the whole place was something out of Heidi. Initially I wanted to hike down to Grindelwald but 2 hours journey put me off and finally I decided to take the cable car. From Grindelwald , I stop by Interlaken, another beautiful town by the Alps..

the scene is straight out from Heidi












view from Grindelwald First cable car station (at the first stop)












an old couple dating ..so sweet