SWITZERLAND! Three places stole my heart away:
In order:
Next time, I am gonna book a hostel in Zermatt and come and stay there for 5 full days. You may know that sublime feeling. From Zermatt trip, I was going back in the 3:00 p.m. Glacier express to Visp to take a train back home, with its centralized heating on lending my shivering body some warmth of home. The huge-big, bustling with snow-snowy, snowy-mountains were all around and they were not leaving me, wanting me to extend my arms and touch them with the tips of my fingers. At every bend and turn, they were there as if wanting to come with me and sit, have tea and samosas and just talk and tell stories hidden deep within them needing the right audience. And I felt proud that moment to realize myself worthy of being among that right audience. Only at Brig/Visp, most probably Brig, did they said Bye and not good bye. They will call me again and I will go up Mt. Matterhorn for sure. Klein Matterhorn? No problem. Matterhorn might be world-famous, I didn't know it before this trip. When I glimpsed it from Zermatt valley below, its snow was playing hide and seek with the clouds hovering and trying to engulf the peak. Precisely that time, to me, it looked as if it rose straight from the books of Lord Shiva, the high and mighty mountain God!. Shiva has the grace and charm of enticing Mountain lover as well as the fiery, tandav-loving Mountain man. In fact, it looked like a younger sibling of Mt. Kailash, Shiva's abode, with a height of 4478 m as opposed to Mt. Kailash's towering height of 6638 m. And having to experience again that legendary chill and warmth, two polarities which I was happy to experience there, is a big pull.
In the pic posted above, the pointed tip mountain in Matterhorn! It is the pic depicted on the wrapper of chocolate giant brand, Toblerone!!
