Window-seat travelers know what aisle-seat people don’t: some of the most beautiful sights of your life can be found right outside your airplane window.
Recently, experienced jet-setters met in an online discussion to reveal the most gratifying and wonderful things they ever saw while traveling 30,000 feet in the air.
Only a tiny handful of people get to experience visiting Antarctica. But these travelers say the same thing. They are consistently blown away by the miles of glaciers and icebergs framing the most pure-blue ocean water they’d ever seen.
While getting caught in a thunderstorm is nobody’s definition of a good time, witnessing it from high above while flying through the air is a cathartic experience.
“It was just fascinating to stare at for quite a while as the plane took a perfectly safe path around it in bright blue daylight,” remembers one woman.