Before arriving to the next destiny in the journey I constantly asked to myself that day “When are we arriving?” I loved the cruise, and everything in it, especially because I was with my best friend Juliana and we could do whatever we liked. But I was really happy and anxious for arriving to the next town and most when I noticed that the time of standing on top of this magnificent and enormous piece of ice had come. The last hour before going down of the cruise was eternal, I looked at my watch each five minutes, or well, what I could think were five minutes, but time didn’t passed, not even one of those five I expected. I stood up I sat down, I ate my breakfast and even had a desert, until finally the voice in the whole ship called us to go down to the town, I thought, “Finally we are here”
I got down and stepped land as quick as I could not only for the emotion but because I got a little bit dizzy with the sea. We had to wait approximately 10 minutes for the bus to arrive, but, since this moment every hour looked like a minute, time always won me...
In the less expected moment, I was putting my special shoes for attaching firmly to the icy floor of the glacier, and for preventing any stupid tragedy, like slipping. I was also checking everything being fine, and me traveling with the necessary equipment, such as my camera. In a blink of an eye, the loud voice sounded again, it was our turn to fly in the helicopter, I couldn’t wait much, but unfortunately I had to, the long talk of the set of instructions was missing, meanwhile I thought: “Ohh hell, why me?”
When this long term of time ended, I could finally jump into the helicopter, Ohh it was awesome, and unimaginable experience, the way I felt was just out of my words, I felt like a hummingbird, just bigger and a little bit more sophisticated. I had a magnificent view from the sky, I could see perfectly everything, and when we were arriving to the glacier I could see the enormous piece of ice just exposing its notable presence and expanding its freezing climate. Jumping a little bit more to the adventure, I could say the first step I took on top of the ice was tremendous, with those special shoes and all of the equipment I still nearly fall, and I couldn’t imagine how on earth I could feel so could if I had 2 t-shirts, 2 jumpers, a hat, gloves and obviously my pants, I just couldn’t realize how the freezing wind could go through all of this clothes, it was incredible, I couldn’t believe it.
But well, taking aside the factor of the cold and the slippery floor, the glacier was simply fantastic, a natural beauty, a tropical phenomenon, it was just so gigantic, so powerful, but at the same time so calm, I thought I was stepping on top of a place we can only see in our biggest dreams or in our deepest fantasy stories.
All the time I waited and all the emotion I had were extremely valuable, I never imagined I could live something just like that, so fantastic, as a dream, one of the most beautiful dreams. I highly recommend this place for those who admire nature and its big curiosities such as a glacier and the feeling of stepping on top of it. So if you want more than a beach, visit the Alaskan paradise, a place with no barriers.
