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  • World Trip 2019: Day 17 – Santa Marta to New York City, USA

    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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  • Flight Review – AV244 Bogotá to New York

    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).

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  • Flight Review – AV9267 Santa Marta to Bogotá

    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.

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  • World Trip 2019: Day 16 – Tayrona to Santa Marta, Colombia

    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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  • World Trip 2019: Day 15 – Tayrona, Colombia

    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.

    At our furtherest point Cabo San Juan de Guia

    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.

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