Crashing early tonight after departing from Cape Town at 13:30 on Monday 20 May and arriving in India nearly sixteen hours later (11 hours to Dubai - temperature at 01:30, 37 degrees Celcius - 2 hour stopover and a last two and a half hours to Delhi) with no sleep.
I have already captured many initial first impressions of street life, which I will process and post as time allows. One thing I can say, NOTHING has changed since I was here as a child of ten back in the early 60's - the traffic is "organised chaos" - but it WORKS, and it isn't going to change.
I'm LOVING IT !
Some images of Indira Gandhi International Airport below. Tight security in evidence, perhaps because the Chinese Prime Minister (Li Keqiang) arrived on Sunday 19th May.
I have already captured many initial first impressions of street life, which I will process and post as time allows. One thing I can say, NOTHING has changed since I was here as a child of ten back in the early 60's - the traffic is "organised chaos" - but it WORKS, and it isn't going to change.
I'm LOVING IT !
Caroline waiting at Cape Town International Airport for the announcement to board our Emirates flight to Dubai
Our aircraft awaits - Airbus A340-300. The A340-300 flies 295 passengers in a typical three-class cabin layout over 6,700 nautical miles (12,400 km). It is powered by four CFMI CFM56-5C engines and uses the Honeywell 331–350[A] APU.
Some images of souvenirs at Dubai Airport are below. I had been forewarned that the so-called Duty Free shops in the airport were a rip-off and that was exactly what I found. I checked the prices of electronic goods (digital SLR cameras, camcorders, laptops, cellphones, storage media), sweets and books and found everything to be more expensive than at home.
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