The Official Blog Of Ritam Saha

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archaeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.   – Edmondo De Amicis Istanbul. A city that is built from the bedtime fairy tales that children learn as they fall asleep - a city of dreams and sky-high minarets indicating its significance as the seat of flourishing empires. Here, one notices the brilliance of the past, coexisting with the optimism of the future. From the heights of the Galata Tower to the seemingly calm, but fierce currents of the Bosphorus, Istanbul is one city which has two sides to everything. Two continents, two speeds - one slow and one fast and two cultures. Napoleon observed that if "the world was a single state, Istanbul would be its capital". The seat of romantic beauty, Istanbul attracts the world's attention to itself every day. Getting to Istan...

The town is located in the Canton of Valais Zermatt is a small, but popular village on the southern border of Switzerland with Italy, and an access point for travellers and mountaineers to visit Switzerland's signature mountain - the Matterhorn. It is nestled in a valley, surrounded by the highest peaks in all of Switzerland, like the Monte Rosa. It is commonly known as the Zermatt ski village and a little way up the Monte Rosa, one may find the Zermatt ski area, one of the most popular of its kind in the country. The village is a car free area, and the only transportation methods within the town are bikes, battery operated vans and buggies. The concern for air pollution in Zermatt and the effective methods to prevent it have termed this village "The World's First Pollution Free Town".     A view from Trockener Steg Zermatt is served by the railway station Zermatt Bahnhof, from towns up in the valley, like Visp and Brig. A Zermatt shuttle is operated by c...