Category: World Trip 2019
A 24-day trip visiting two countries; USA and Colombia, between 9 August 2019 and 1 September 2019.
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Wednesday 28 August 2019. Highlights: ‘Hamilton’, Gospel Singing, The Apollo Theatre The last full day of this trip doing tourist things before heading home tomorrow on Singapore Airlines First Class turned out to be an amazing day, maybe the best of the trip.
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Tuesday 27 August 2019. Highlights: US Tennis Open 2019 One of my life time goals is to see all Grand Slam Tennis events around the world. Today I got to see the third Grand Slam, the US Open, and it was a great day at the tennis.
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Monday 26 August 2019. Highlights: Emotional World Trade Centre visit, Phantom of the Opera. A very big and emotional day in New York City. I started by meeting my mother and brother at their hotel The New Yorker, for breakfast and a quick catch up by our later even attendance at the Phantom of the…
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Sunday 25 August 2019. Highlights: Easy Immigration into the USA As one leg of the trip closes the final leg commences. Today I said goodbye to colourful Colombia and hello to the United States of America.
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Avianca Gate: 41 Seat: 34A (Economy Window) Plane: A330-200 Boarded: 12.26 Pushback: 13.31 Departed: (Scheduled 13.00) Arrived: 19.40 (Scheduled 19.55) Duration: 5 hour 9 minutes Distance: 3,981 kms This was the second leg of two flights to get to New York City, USA. The first flight was a Colombian domestic flight Santa Marta to Bogotá…
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Avianca Gate: 5 Seat: 26A (Economy Window) Plane: A319 Boarded: 07.34 Pushback: 08.10 Arrived: 09.24 (Scheduled 09.40) Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes Distance: 710 kms This was the first leg of two flights to get to New York City, USA with this Colombian domestic flight from Simon Bolivar International Airport (Santa Marta) to El Dorado…
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Saturday 24 August 2019. Highlights: Orientation walk Santa Marta, Gold Museum, Farewell Dinner A very easy day after the hard work of yesterday hiking in the heat and humidity.
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Friday 23 August 2019. Highlights: Tayrona National Park Hike Easily the hardest physical day on the tour we had a full day hiking in the Tayrona National Park leaving the hotel at 8 am and returning around 3.30 pm. The walking part was probably 5 hours and a lot of it was ups and downs…
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Thursday 22 August 2019 Highlights: Easy Day at Taganga Beach, relaxing at pool Today was a very easy day hanging around Taganga, mostly on the beach.
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Wednesday 21 August 2019. Highlights: La Victoria Coffee Farm visit, Pozo Azul Waterfall, and intense topical rainstorm A leisurely morning allowing for us to sleep in as long as we had breakfast by 9 am and our bags were ready to be transferred to Taganga while we continued our exploration of Minca in the morning…
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