An exceptional couple of days at 36 °C in Zurich, Switzerland. The hot city shot from Rigiblick cable-car station.
The old city and lake Zurich
Prime tower with city burner
Zurich railway
Urania observatory
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Always a good excuse to meet the sun again: above the clouds on a cog-wheel train up to the Rigi peak (Kulm), Switzerland. Click each picture to enlarge.
Up in time
Proportions
Framed
Snow lost
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Europe’s oldest mountain railways were built in 1870 on mount Rigi. With its red wagons, Rigi Railways bring you up to 1,798 m.s.l. from Viznau, at the shores of Lake Lucerne. The gauge rack railway reaches the highest peak, Rigi Kulm, through galleries, bridges and awesome scenarios.
Rigi raylway turntable linking station and depot at Viznau terminal
 
Once the train is positioned, everything is ready to climb up to Rigi Kulm!
Train and landscape reflections and viceversa
After Kaltbad middle-station, the snow still covers the landscape
Leaving behind the rail-junction at Rigi Staffel
Hikers and skiers, all up by train.
 
Here we are, the massive Pilatus by Lucerne as background, ready for the hike downhill in the snow! All pictures shot with Nikon D800 + 50 mm f/1.4G – click each picture to enlarge.
After a 5-hour-long hike up-and-down from Stoos to Fronalpstock with camera-tele-50mm-wideangle-tripod on my back …
… the night of the 1st of August covered the sky and the peaks of Rigi and Pilatus and the Mythen and the lake boats with fire…
Wood-fire and fireworks in a night enlighten by the Milky Way.
Up there, through Scorpio to down there on Lake Lucerne, billions of fires turned on.
What a show the night sky on the Alps… watch it at least once in your life…
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