THE EIFFEL TOWER : FOREVER AN ICON

The Eiffel Tower (French: tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair – it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures […]

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GLACIER EXPRESS : THE SLOWEST EXPRESS TRAIN IN THE WORLD !

The Glacier Express (GEX) is an express train connecting railway stations of the two major mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz via Andermatt in the central Swiss Alps. The train’s name honours the Rhone Glacier – which is near Gletsch on the Furka Pass What is the Glacier Express ? Where […]

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QINGZANG TIELU (THE QINGHAI TIBET RAILWAY) – THE HIGHEST RAILWAY IN THE WORLD

On the amazing World¨s highest Railway (Tanggula : 5072m) : Golmud – Lhasa Qinghai Tibet railway 1142 KM (960KM over 4000m & 550KM of it built on permafrost) over earthquake zones, in rarified air with oxygen supply carriages, 675 bridges, environmental friendly (totally trash free) and 33 wildlife crossing railway […]

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