It was already 4 weeks in Vienna and i have almost covered most of the city and i already started worrying about the coming weekend ..as most of u ppl know i really hate to waste time in sitting or sleeping in room ..either it may India or Europe .. so i needed some activity for the weekend .. and at the same time .. my colleague [Vinayak] who is also incidently in Europe and he is very near to Austria where i was put up .. and he already visited me once .. and he was also in the planning for the weekend .. and due to both of our office work till friday we were unable to come up with anything and .. on Friday afternoon .. he pinged me and gave this idea of visiting Czech Republic's wonderful city or Prag [as called in local].. and our both decided quickly to head to that place ..
As it was very quick decision there was no time for booking the tickets and for proper planning .. so we consulted Google uncle for help and Google uncle promptly helped us with enough details .. so i left office early and after reaching my hotel ..i got some more info and details of Train journey .. and by this time we already excited with this place as we come to know it's really beautiful place..
I reached the Train station with my backpack and checked for Tickets and thankfully i was able to get tickets and which costed me 120Euro approximately..but i needed to wait for 2 hours .. so i waited in the train station and boarded the train ..and after getting my seat .. i was wondering about Vinayak ..and my worry was how much delay it will be between our trains and his .. as per schedules his train will reach Prague 30 min earlier than me and we already communicated who ever reaches early has to wait till other comes near the main gate of the station.
During journey i met one girl from newzeland and she was studying in Vienna in Environmental related course and she was here as part of student exchange program and she was traveling to Berlin to meet her friend .. so till morning 4:30 by which i reach Prague my time spent on chatting with this girl
Day 1
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As soon i reached the Prag station .. i saw Vinayak as he already arrived there and was waiting for me.and rest 3 hours we spent in the station waiting for the tourist information center to open .. waiting is really boring .. anyhow we didn't had any choice and ..after the Tourist center opened we checked with the vendor there and we purchased one map which covers the complete details of places to see and visit .. so we made a quick plan and decided to cover all these places on foot and starting from nearest place ..which is National Museum of History. we took some time there and some photos also .. and there were very few tourist around us at that time and it was one popular circle which will be visited by tourists ..
we head forward towards one more attraction ..and by the time we reached there we realized that we are hungry and we head back all the way towards our first attraction National Museum and we were shocked by the number of ppl gathered here .. its almost more than 300 and all of them are tourists..
The whole day we covered many historical and beautiful places:in which some top places i am listing here
1. Prague Castle and Golden Lane
Prague Castle is the biggest castle on all over the world. Nowdays there is a seat of president of the Czech Republic and Czech crown jewels are kept there. Golden Lane is situated in the walls of Prague Castle and is very popular for its appearance and historical personalities who lived there so as Franz Kafka etc.
2. Charles Bridge
Charles Bridge is the oldest bridge over Vltava river in Prague. It has got very rich and interesting history that is why we would recommend you to visit also a Museum of the Charles Bridge which is located in the end of the bridge by the Old Town Tower on Male namesti.
3. Old Town Sqaure with St. Nichola´s and Tyn churches
Old Town Square is probably the most popular square in Prague with lots of historical sights to see. It is located among Tyn church, St Nicola´s church and Old Town Hall with Astronomical Clock. In the middle of the Old Town Square there is a statue of the Czecg reformer Jan Hus.
4. Astronomical Clock and the Old Town Hall
Astronomical clock are situated on the Old Town Square on the Old Town Hall building. It is one of the most famous astronomical clocks on all over the world and its famous also under the name Prague Orloj. Every hour you can see how the clock plays what is short but very interesting performance.
5. St. Vitus Cathedral
Why is St. Vitus Cathedral so interesting? Come and see its monumental architecture. Building it took almost 600 years and so as to most of Prague monuments also to St. Vitus Cathedrals are connected many legends from Czech history. Under the cathedral there are graves of Czech kings, prinesses, saints and other prominent persons.
6. Jewish Quarter
dominant of Jewish Quarter which is situated on the Old Town is Jewish cemetery and Old New Synagogue. On the Jewish cemetery there are graves of many important perosns from Czech Jewish history so as Rabi Löw and others. Old New Synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe and legend says that foundation stones are from King´s Salomon Church from Jerusalem.
7. Vysehrad Castle
Vysehrad Castle is situated on the hill upon river Vltava offers unforgetable view. Except of Castle you can see there a cemetery where are vgraves of famous people from the Czech history or a very nice park with many statues.
8. Petrin Tower
Petrin Tower is an imitation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. well, when seeing, yu can laugh because Petrin is only 60 metres high. However, architectonically, especially at the time of its constructing in 1891 it was a gem. It is a worth to make a trip there. Petrin is situated on the hill surrounded by wonderful parks and gardens, around the tower there is also a mirror maze for children or Strahov sanctuary. Nice experience is to go up by the furnicular and down through the parks on your own ;-)
9. Wenceslas Square
Wenceslas Square is named after Czech patron the saint what is St. Wencels who has got also a statue on the upper end of the square. Wenceslas Square is rather a shopping and bussines center of Prague, however, still in an historical part of Prague.
The city or Prag is really a worthy city to Visit
PS: some texts are from www
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