Spain Solar Eclipse Tour Recap and Awe

We flew to Madrid, Spain for a solar eclipse tour organized by Love at First Adventure, an affiliated agency of Tropical Sails Corp


From Xataka, a Spanish newspaper.


He is Daniel Oppliger, and he ranks 99th in the world on the list of people who have seen the most eclipses, according to the website eclipse-charser-log , which compiles this information. The couple had arrived in Lodoso a few hours earlier along with a group of 27 Americans on an expedition organized by Love at First Adventure through the travel agency Tropical Sails , owned by Oppliger and based in El Paso, Texas.


China, Turkey, Australia, and Mexico are some of the countries this couple, married for 50 years, have visited. They will likely witness the 2027 total solar eclipse from Morocco, which will be the longest of this century with more than six minutes of totality. Their travel agency offers various packages to view it from Morocco or Egypt on a Nile River cruise, with prices starting at $2,500.


Gran Vía, Cibeles, Neptuno, Puerta de Alcalá, Las Cortes, Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor, Plaza de Oriente, and the modern Madrid areas. 

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