So, my travels continue. Right now I am sitting at Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong tapping furiously a quick update. My flight to Seoul Incheon Airport should be boarding imminently. The first leg of the journey was a 12 hour flight lengthwise across Europe and into Russia before swinging south through the Xinjiang and Xizang autonomous regions in China.
Being winter time, the sun sets quite early that far north. The night scape across mainland Europe was a sight to behold. Large stretches of darkness extend in all directions broken by patches of golden and white light where the towns and cities lay far below. Of all the times I've flown, and there are a lot of them, this time I saw one of the most amazng sights. A city below, possibly in Ukraine lay beneath us. A small patch of cloud covered the city and the lights from the city illuminated the clouds in a golden halo. Too bad there wasn't enough light for me to get any images of it, but the ethereal beauty of it pretty much ingrained itself into my brain.
The second sight that was breathtaking was the sight of the moon from 33000 feet. From that high up, the air is so still and the clarity of the ghostly moonlight was something to see. It was the first time I had ever seen the moon from that high up. And not to forget the starlight. Although I couldn't see a whole lot of them.
Anyway time to board the plane!!
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Gotta love free wifi at HK airport.. they need that in syd too..
hope u have fun boarding in korea!
you can use low ISO setting to take fotos in low light situations ykno.
that sounds amazing benty, I am glad you got to see such beauty - I saw the sun once from far up, it looked like an alien globe vessel, I was startled but soon settled to gaze upon it as if it was the only thing in the world that mattered :)
xx
enjoy yourself!
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