CREW‘S QUOTES DURING THE JOURNEY, THE CREW CAME UP WITH NEW WISDOM. BELOW YOU WILL FIND QUOTES FROM THE WISE ONES: Warum hät dä Chürzischt dä längschti Titel? (d‘Handlanger) Ich gnüüse mis Netto-Glück Du bisch für öis dä Messi der Lüfte; und öppe gliich tüür! Im Cockpit bisch Du öise LeBron; oder Le Baron – […]
Today is our last day of flying; as planned. What did not end as planned is the location: Fort Lauderdale in the USA instead of Mollis in Switzerland. It is what it is; we are healthy, happy and had a fantastic journey and experience. Nice breakfast, long check-out and up in the air after one
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Four hours flying over Brazil and another four to Barbados. A long day for the pilots. Same procedure as yesterday: getting up at 05.00h, driving to airport at 06.15h and this time everything works and we are in the air by 07.15h flying north to Belem. Exactly after four hours we reach this city of
Brasilia – 11th of June As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, Brazil‘s one futuristic capital is showing its age, but it remains an impressive monument. Built from nothing in about three years, Brasilia replaced Rio de Janeiro as Brazil‘s center of government in 1960 under the visionary leadership of President Juscelino Kubitschek and architect Oscar
Asuncion has a center with a sprinkling of original colonial and beaux-arts building; unfortunately they are falling apart. The heavy traffic and diesel fumes and shanty shacks on the banks of the Rio Paraguay are not pretty either. But it has new suburbs with shopping malls, nice shops and smart restaurants with excellent local and
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La Paz is dizzying in every respect, not only for its well-publicized altitude (3‘360 m). The city is entered via the flat sparse plains of El Alto. The posher suburbs, with skyscrapers, colonial houses and modern glass constructions, occupy the city‘s lower regions. The southern part of La Paz is 800 m lower than El
6th of June Cusco is a city so steeped in history, tradition and myth that it can be difficult to know where fact ends and myth begins. Legends tell that in the 12th century the first Inca, Manco Capac, was charged by the ancestral sun god Inti to find the qosq‘o (naval of the earth).
Covering 8‘400 sq km and sitting at 3‘808 m, Lakte Titicaca is considered the world‘s largest high altitude lake. The air looks magically clear here, as dazzling high-altitude sunlight suffuses the altiplano and sparkles on the deep waters. After a good night sleep, a very good breakfast and saying good-bye to Herbie, we leave at
High in the Andes amid dramatic mist-covered peaks, Quito (elevation 2‘850m) is a beautifully set city packed with historical monuments and architectural treasures. The jewel of Quito is its historic center, a Unesco World Heritage Site. We love this place and its people. Today is one of the longest legs of our journey: about 6
Boa Vista is a planned city but because of its geographical location, far away from the country’s major urban centers, it has a small population. Thanks to town planning in the 1960s, it is a modern, level city, designed in the form of a fan, with the broad spokes of its avenues converging on the