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Thursday 29 August 2019
Highlights: Virgin Atlantic JFK Clubhouse
Today I said goodbye to New York and the USA on the long road to returning to Australia. My flight wasn’t until 8.55 pm but you could check in with Singapore Airlines 6 hours before your flight, with hotel check out at noon I didn’t have much time to kill before catching the subway out to the airport.
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.
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.
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 Opera.
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.
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 (review here). I had a 3 hour 20 minute transit between the domestic flight and the international flight.
This flight was from the El Dorado International Airport (Bogotá) to John F Kennedy International Airport (New York).
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 International Airport (Bogotá).
I was scheduled to have a 3 hour 20 minute layover to get to my international flight to New York.
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.
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 small hills.
While a lot of the hike had wooden paving to avoid us damaging the park, a lot also didn’t and you were still pushing off rocks and leaning on them then or grabbing trees for support when climbing up. The heat and humidity could be a quick killer.
When visited: August 2019
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