131 goes Suisse!!!!

No words to describe the 131 week long outbound trip to Switzerland in the third week of April. The fabulous pictures and crisp write ups by a few tablers pretty much summarises it!

 

 

 HT Deepu Cherian
“What started of as CB’s initiative to fly us on Emirates turned out to be one of the best adventures we've had in a while.
An irresistible air fare from CB, meticulous planning and haggling by Antony to decide on an appropriate itinerary, combined with 24 adults and 7 children, made for an exciting and eye opening trip for all of us.

The trip started on a leisurely note with walking tours on the first 2 days and then moved a gear up when we went to Mt.Titlis. The place makes you feel like you're on the top of the world.

 And as we were thinking that it couldn't get better, we reached Zermatt. The penultimate day saw a tour through a significant part of the Lake Geneva region ending up in Montreux and the Hotel with a fabulous view.
 




The camaraderie was very high, fellowship at its best in all forms and a lot of bonding.One of our drivers to comment that we were one of the most well behaved and on time group of Indians he had seen. Imagine that! We had a memorable time and those photos will be getting reviews for a long time to come.”

Sq Leg Pradeep G Mathew

“I have to say... this was a beautifully orchestrated and meticulously planned trip down to the last detail. I honestly wasn't sure of the places where we were visiting but on reaching the places. . I realised that the places decided on were awesome.. 

Extra ordinary and not run the mill locations that we fixed on. Luzerne was beautiful, lauterbrunnen, brianz, zermatt, montreux. . Out of the ordinary places but worth every second we spent thete. The hotels were good, better and might I say bestest....in that order. The buses were very comfy. The boat ride was phenomenal. .. I cud go on. whoaaa!!!”

Chairman Jayanth Giridharan

"Whew.. what an international trip that was. Antony Alapatt gave us a brilliant itinerary which was planned in unbelievable detail. The usual Swiss Itinerary involves Zurich, Interlaken & Jungfrauh which we did not follow. 

He took us to untouched parts of Switzerland like Zermatt, Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen, the breathtaking Lake Lucerne cruise with the stops at each station, Mt Titlis . The trip was very comfortable as we had the coach throughout & scenic n memorable in every way. CB Paul has been an incredible support during the year. 

I have always believed that everyone at 131 is incredibly talented in their forte.......Way to go guys, this trip would long be remembered in the 131 memoirs.” 

         

HT. Rajesh Simon

"Tisha and I had decided, we would not miss the Swiss trip at any cost. With a short stop over to Dubai, we reached Zurich. The lush beauty and the town of Zurich started our journey. The first night stop over in Lucerene was awesome. 

Next day trip to Brianz actually bought each one of us to soak completely into the swiss feeling. 


Beautiful river side walk, breathtaking scenery, colorful flowers with a background of snow capped mountains .... all lapped us into the beautiful swiss. 

Forward to lauterbrunnen we found even the cemetery could be so beautiful with flowers all around and chalets around giving a classy swiss look.

The next day we landed to Mt Titilis. Goodness gracious me.... An awesome place. After all the ice splurging and ice skating ( special Indianized version) we headed back to another beautiful spot Flunen to catch a ferry to see the swiss land from lake. Well we saw the landscapes, lakes and Alps..... we thought we have seen it all. 

Then we reach Zermatt. .... A town where no vehicles are allowed. Saw the Mt Materhorn ( The pic of Tobelrone chocolates) another breathtaking town. And then to end it off going to historic towns of Lausanne the Olympic head office, Vevey, and then finally to Montreu.

Wow..what a trip that was..3 cheers to 131... swiss style.