Amsterdam. 2nd day

Fist day we did so much of walking ( almost 16000syeps) so next day we started with canal tour. It was for one hour and 16 € per person. We started with Centraal station and he took us around the whole city. This city has more than hundred canals.. and houses just on the bank of canals.. so beautiful. Even in canals houseboats type houses are there on both sides. They are permanent homes and quite expensive because now govt has stopped the permission any more. Here we see cycles all around.. on canal banks, trees everywhere they are parked and locked. I have never seen such big no of bicycles anywhere else in my life. Most of the people use bicycle as their means of transport in city.
Here the houses are built on marshy lands , so sometimes they sag or tilt also.

After finishing the tour we walked around dams square and had lunch. It was a nice veg burger with lots of vegetable. Here most of the places toilets are chargeable ( 50 cents). And McDonald’s is very cheap but it doesn’t have veg burger, we took only softy and it was only 1€..
After this we took hop on ho odytour, it’s valid for 25 hrs and we took it combined one ., means we could use both boat and bus. It was 29 € per person. So first we took a round sitting and seeing. It takes you to Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Rijvik museum.., redlight secret,maritime museum, etc and all have depart entry fee,and yes heinkein experience, then Hassan diamonds where they show polishing of diamonds, and one could buy also.
In the next round we got down at Jardin and took a stroll to flea market and then two stores HEMA and one more and then time was up, so came back to Centraal and had dinner and went back to hotel.
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Amsterdam...I day

Today we started our trip to Amsterdam. From Zurich  took a morning flight to Amsterdam and reached there by nine. And lo., there was public transport strike and we had to take a taxi to our hotel.. Novotel at Europa Boulevard. Here I would suggest everyone that it would be better to take a hotel near centrum.. Railway station because taxi is quite expensive, we paid 40 euro from airport to hotel and evertime from hotel to centrum it was 45 € .
From the centrum we walked to dams square and walked around the town had lunch and took a tour to Zaanse schans around 2.45 Pm. It’s ticket was 59€ per person. We started with wind mills tour. Wind mills are used to make so many things even oil, people live there.. like in half house and half is their working are.. it was extraordinarily beautiful place. I could see in dreams only..
This city is 30 meters below sea let, so to make ground habitable, lots of management was done in 1932 and still do . Since the ground is not very conducive to crops they do cattle farming.. and lots of cheese is manufactured here.we see the cheese making process in Volendam and many people buy also. There was homemade ice cream and waffles there it was yummy. After that we take a cruise to aMerken island. It is a Dutch hamlet initially inhabited by poor fisherman.. there houses look beautiful in just 2 colours green and black and it is because they couldn’t afford to buy paint they could make black by tar and green by plants.these house are made differently... ground floor in brick and first floor in wood due to marshy land. Here they make wood clogs and it’s a beautiful art.
Their management of resources made me realise how much we can do in our country. They have changed the salty ocean water to seeet water lake.

Mount Rigi

We had a day trip to Mountain Rigi. It’s a one hour car journey to to a town called Grandau , there we parked the car and ther just in front of that is Rigi Bahn. From there we took tickets and took the cog wheel train to the top. Tickets are quite high here, it was 72 CHF per adult. Journey is quite like Ooty train except that here you can see a beautiful landscape.cleanliness and maintenance standard so high here but for that you need good administration as well as  discipline among people. Secondly in our country we don’t want to pay for anything, for every hike in any ticket there is a protest, one can’t get best of anything free.
On the way there are four stations in between and then we reach the top and it’s a spacious view point with space to lounge around and a restaurant.