After three months of intensive study in class, it is now time for winter holiday to celebrate Christmas and New Year. The nights seem to be day with bright luminous artificial light all over.
As our holiday starts, I was very much eager to go and visit some of the streets at night, to see the lighting decoration. When I reach at street, even the sun has been set hour or more before; I could still feel the daylight over my head. The weather seems to be so harsh but the people on the streets were more than during the day, with hat, warm jacket and pants. I saw busker at one corner of the street and there were many people around him shouting and cheering for him with handful of coins.
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| Bright birds at night; photo by; Ugyen Chophel |
When I walk through the streets I felt the birds at night over my head. But those were all fine skill of arts by the peoples, beautified with the lights.
I started visiting some museums in Turin. The first place we visited was Suparga, it is a huge church. It is very beautiful place from where we could see the whole Turin city.
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| Suparga at the top of hill; photo by; Ugyen Chophel |
The day was so clear with no cloud on the sky. My friends who has been there before was every much aflame to go and visit once more this place on this particular clear day. So it was his (my friend) who decided to go and I followed him.
With the few change of tram and bus, we finally reached to the base of the hill. As we were at the base of the hill, I shared my friend similarities of that hills landscape and Bhutan landscape; I really missed my homeland as I reach at that hill.
To reach on the summit of the hill we have to go in bus #79. We wait there for few minutes until my friend has a privilege to ask some passer by whereabouts the bus. Unfortunately, it was Saturday and bus only works during other days.
So I suggested him to walk and reach on the top of the hill. It was fine with my suggestion to him, but as it is his second time visit, he suggested to going in a train. The station was just next to us. Finally we concluded to go by train.
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| Small train waiting to go up. photo by : Ugyen Chophel |
Those train where so small with one coach, it was very warm and cozy, and it was worth of 9 Euros to and fro.
Finally we were at the summit to quench our desire to see whole city and enjoy the beauty of nature in area. The wind seems to so arctic and chilly. But the pleasure of being on the top of the hill and enjoying the beauty of nature has almost killed the sense of cold weather in vicinity.
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| Suparga Church. Photo by; Ugyen Chophel |
After few hours of enjoyment with beautiful memory in little mind, it was time for us to get back to the warm, cozy piccolo (small) train.
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| Birds eye view of Turin City. Photo by; Ugyen Chophel |
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| birds eye view of Turin City, Photo by Ugyen Chophel |
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| Birds eye view of Turin City (towards south) Photo By Ugyen Chophel |
Within 20 minutes of journey in train we were back to the base of hill. By the time we return, it was almost dusk. With gnawing stomach we waited for the bus to get back to home sweet home. We were back at home by 6 p.m. in the evening.
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th December, Sunday, due to the pre occupied mood of holiday. Little mind of mine did not wish to do any works or study so we again decided to visit one museum, which was few miles away.
Museum of Automobile is another wonderful museum to be visited. It tells us about the history of auto cars. There, we saw more than 124 different types of cars from early days to now.
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| Ancestor of Car; Photo by; Ugyen Chophel |
It begins with the few arts and demonstration of early cart. Museum is of two stories building. As we move from the first floor to the ground floor, the alphabet ‘T’ gets completely detached from the CAR-T…CAR.
The desire to buy a small car worth of $5000 to $6000 almost gets completely wash away as we see more and more wonderful and nice cars with high speed in museum.
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| 2496 CC 720kg,290 km/hr MERCEDES BENZ, photo by Ugyen Chophel |
595 kg FERRARI 290 km/hr, photo by: Ugyen Chophel |
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| FERRARI CAR; Photo By Ugyen Chophel |
The highest speed car that I have encounter in the museum was 290 km/hr by FERRARI and MERCEDES. To meet with every car with every detail it would take more than a day, we did not go into detail still it took us 3 hours to come out of the museum.
Car on race and Tortoise taking part and 3rd in position |
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