Part 1: The start of the journey to the end of the world
After months of planning, we were all ready for the adventure at the end of the world. No words can actually describe the feeling of getting to see the expedition come to life. It was just a concept, and the day finally arrived when the adventure was all set to begin.
“Patagonia! Here we come…”
The escapade began even before we reached there.
What was ahead of us was a daunting 20-hour flight between Dubai and Santiago (add another 3-hour flight between Mumbai and Dubai and a few hours of layover at Dubai). One of the longest flights I had ever flown before. How many movies one can watch back to back? If that was boring, I even tried to catch up on work and drained my laptop battery completely. Couldn’t get sleep maybe because of the excitement of driving to the end of the world. The journey was overwhelming but we had a bit of respite after 16 hours as Emirates had a planned stopover at Sao Paulo (Brazil) for 1.5 hours. The plane was cleaned and the main door leading to the tarmac was opened, bringing some much-needed fresh air into the chasm of body heat and recycled human breath.
Soon, we were back in the air for another 4.5 hours of flight to Santiago. This was a breeze considering the earlier journey. Within no time we arrived in Santiago, the capital of the narrowest country in the world (Chile). After crossing 3 continents and multiple time zones, we really needed some rest to get over with the long flight and to adjust our body clock to the local time.
Our expedition members were flying in from different parts of the world. Some members visited Peru before flying into Santiago. We had recommended a trip extension for those who wanted to visit the world heritage site of Machu Picchu and few interesting places like Cusco and Lima in Peru. We helped them with all the hospitality and logistics needed at Peru while we were parallelly getting ready with the arrangements for their arrival in Santiago.
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