BY Clay Larroy
The
purposes of traveling
are different for different people. There are some people who travel for the
sake of pleasure. The people that are heavily burdened either at their domestic
front or at their offices move too far off places for relieving their worries
and anxieties. The poets and writers make a trip to distant places for
collection of facts for their writings. Businessmen also visit various places
to enquire as to whether there are scopes for expansion of their business.
Travelling provides the benefit of sightseeing and gives pleasure to the
visitor. In addition, it gives a scope to an individual to have firsthand
knowledge of variegated people inhabiting the world. When you want to
plan a vacation contact me!
Antarctic Voyage - Journey to the Bottom of
the World
By George
Bailey
Getting to the Antarctica is no mean feat. This is the body of water
between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn and Antarctica. It’s
called the Southern Ocean and is the ocean that circumvents the Antarctic. It’s
the fourth largest ocean in the world (after the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian
Ocean, but larger than the Arctic Ocean). This passage held up to its
reputation as the roughest stretch in the world. I was mesmerized from the
first moment I set eyes on the continent. It was a place that expanded my
senses of time. It was deliciously peaceful. I listened to the silence outside
my porthole. The skies were flawless blue with marshmallow clouds. The sun was
shining for 22 hours a day and the temperature about +3C (+39 F). It was truly
another world.
When weather permitted, as it did for most of this cruise, I took shore excursions (zodiac cruising) among icebergs to the continent itself. And it was Saturday, December 22 at 1 pm that I first stepped foot on Half Moon Island part of the 7th continent of the world, Antarctica. I became one of the approximate 35,000 people to do so each year. There was a sizable rookery of Chinstrap and Adelie penguins and an abundant bird population of terns, petrels, cormorants, wandering albatross and whales. I saw stunning views of surrounding volcanic mountains. Later, we cruised just off ice-covered Elephant Island, named for its sizeable colony of elephant seals. Next day we visited King George Island home to the Arctowski Polish Research Antarctic Station. Managed by the Polish Academy of Science it is manned year-round and undertakes researches in biology, glaciology and oceanography.
Would I Return? In a heartbeat. The vastness of this white
continent made me feel like I was the only person on earth. I now have a
persuasive calm and sense of balance. Much like the white continent
itself.
“All that
is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are
lost.”
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