SWITZERLAND TRAVEL

Switzerland or Swiss and Italy are two countries in Europe have the most interesting places for tourists. Switzerland located on the northern slope of Alpine mountain range dotted with beautiful lakes and everlasting glazier, is the paradise of skiing sport along the slope of Jungfrau and Edgar peaks. which have more then 3000 meters above sea level. The cities such as Zurich, Basel, Bern, and Geneva are known to have historic sites with magnificent old buildings which are originated from 13 to 15th century and are still standing well. In Zurich there are old church of St. Pieter, sculpture of Charlemagne, and many old buildings, villages from ancient era which is still being preserved just in the middle of the city such as Nierdedorf with its dozens of traditional restaurants and cafes which are always full during the lunch and dinner time. The city of Bern with the cave of Bear and dozens of historical places as well as Geneva are two cities always used by European and world politicians to set up an important meeting or sign agreements of various themes such as peace agreement, non aggression agreement, and many other international events being recorded by the two cities in the course of European history. Swiss known by its neutrality of the conflict in Europe, and is lucky also that the conflicting countries in the course of the history just let Switzerland as the country with full neutrality. With this situation Switzerland is not only known as political rendezvous, but as the place of good saving, almost any country would use Swiss for this purposes. The people of Switzerland actually consist of three ethnic groups, one is Italian inhabited southern area with the capital city of Lugano, they speak daily Italian, and the west part of the country are the French with the capital city of Geneva, and daily the speak France, and the rest are people speaking German such as in Bern, Zurich, Saint Gallen and Basel. The the field of tourism Swiss might be the first in Europe to receive tourists every day, not only from Europe, but from all countries in the world. It is said also that the main income of the country is from tourism. During winter season, the town such as Interlaken, a beautiful city between two lakes near the Alpine slope are full with skiers ascending the Jungfrau peak then sliding down from the peak through the village of Kleine Schaedeg, and on for hundreds of meters along the slope. When Bern and Geneva were the political cities, Zurich has been developing as the economic city with fast development of various trade and industry, especially tourism industry. Biggest tour operator in Europe in the 1990s such as Kuoni build by Alfred Kuoni is located in Zurich, with the branch offices in all countries in Europe, and only in Germany this company could not compete local tour operator such as Neckermann und Reisen or Thomas Cook and TUI or LTU group of tour companies. Tourist facilities in Swiss is one of among the best in choice and category. Various hotels are available in almost all cities and even small town from tourist class hotels, medium class hotels and deluxe class hotels. Transportation is excellent, one can choose either train or city commuters with relatively low rate daily, weekly or even more. Swiss also has world ethnography museum where one can see various cultural exhibition with good description and interesting set up of the historical and ethnographical facts.