Ellie Hamby and Sandy Hazelip embarked on a planet tour in January this year for 80 days.
Ellie Hamby and Sandy Hazelip loved India for its architectural beauty.Listen to this write-up
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You will have to have heard about the well-known French novel ‘Around the Globe in Eighty Days’ by Jules Verne. Two ideal good friends from USA’s Texas essentially attempted to go on a equivalent adventure as they embarked on a planet tour at the age of 81.
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Ellie Hamby, an international documentary photographer, and Sandy Hazelip, a physician who now appears soon after sufferers in lengthy term care facilities, are good friends from 23 years. The duo is now back property in Texas precisely 80 days soon after they departed to take a look at all seven continents of the planet.
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It was Sandy who came up with the concept as she stated, “Ellie why do not we take into consideration travelling about the planet in 80 days when we’re 80?” stated Hamby. Even so, due to the pandemic, the trip didn’t essentially occur till the good friends had turned 81. While the two of them have travelled with each other many other instances, they spent years preparing for the trip. They lastly took off in January this year as they departed for their 1st quit, Antarctica.
The duo visited 18 nations in seven continents through their trip. They travelled to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Finland, Argentina and India amongst other folks.
Their adventures are not planned by a travel agent and it does not involve luxurious hotels or gourmet meals, they wrote in a weblog post. They stated at 81, they recognize what’s actually significant and the worth of “experience” more than “comfort”.
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They each loved India for its architectural beauty and specially for the most friendly, loving persons in the planet. They visited Delhi 1st exactly where they saw the Qutab Minar, India Gate and the Jama Masjid. Then they visited Udaipur, the city of lakes also named “the Venice of the East”, exactly where they stayed in a 180-year-old mansion that had been turned into a hotel.
They also visited the Ranakpur Jain Temple and Bharatpur. And lastly, they visited the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra and they crossed the 50-day mark through their India tour. The ideal good friends told Right now.com they also hope they’ve inspired future generations to realise you are never ever as well old to take in all the planet has to supply.
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Very first published on: 15-04-2023 at 12:57 IST