Photographs from your BA travels
Mar 17, 2024, 7:11 am
#1759
Join Date: Nov 2023
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Bengaluru, India
I am too lazy to write a TR, so here are just a few photos from my trip to Bengaluru in India.
Vidhana Soudha
Government museum
Visvesvaraya industrial and Technological museum
Bull (Nandi) temple
ISKCON temple
Sri Krishnarajendra Market
Vidhana Soudha
Government museum
Visvesvaraya industrial and Technological museum
Bull (Nandi) temple
ISKCON temple
Sri Krishnarajendra Market
Mar 17, 2024, 1:51 pm
#1760
Join Date: Mar 2022
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When scrolling through my old photos, I came across a couple BA-related ones that I would like to share. The photos are from 2009, my first trip to the USA and my first time on a 747. If I remember correctly, itinerary included nice selection of BA fleet: 747,757,767 and 777.
Our 747 to IAD in rainy Heathrow
An unexpected visit to White House gardens due to some kind of special event
View towards the National Mall
Handprints in the Children's Garden
Our 747 to IAD in rainy Heathrow
An unexpected visit to White House gardens due to some kind of special event
View towards the National Mall
Handprints in the Children's Garden
Apr 14, 2024, 4:13 am
#1762
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Nice views on the way into Heathrow this morning on BA228. A bit cloudy over Wales and the west - but cleared by eastern Somerset. Clear across to South Coast (Portland Bill, Swanage, Southampton Water and IoW). Quick hold south of London, then joining finals over Greenwich.
Green Park
Westminster & The Eye
Green Park
Westminster & The Eye
Apr 14, 2024, 6:10 am
#1763
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Apr 14, 2024, 3:48 pm
#1765
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Some nondescript hills flying to Paro, Bhutan.
Pretty much sums up Bhutan.
The Paro dzong.
The justifiably world famous Tiger’s Nest monastery. No stroll in the park this! A steep 700 metres climb at almost 3000 metres!
Apr 15, 2024, 6:56 am
#1766
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Apr 15, 2024, 7:43 am
#1767
Join Date: Jun 2023
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DeathSlam, re: that mountain pic. When I booked my DrukAir business ticket many months ago I thought I had also booked my seats. Three days before the out leg from DEL I got an ‘It’s time to checkin AND choose your seat’ email. Buggers! No left side window seats left! I got the last right side window but not much to see from that side on DEL-PBH other than the mountain ridges passing closely below the plane on the famous (or infamous!) approach to Paro. I took that shot from the other side with only a 24-70 mm! Granted it was with a Nikon Z9 and that 24-70 is as good as glass gets but it was a huge crop nevertheless.
Anyway, you still have to go through an accredited tour company to get a Bhutan visa - no popping in there! And they’ve upped their daily tourist ’tax’ to about 100 quid per day to pay for their universal healthcare and education. The ‘tax’ also serves to keep the riff-raff out.
I was on a wildlife tour run by a S African company but they use Yangphel Adventure Travel as their in-country providers. Super lot them. They will do any sort of custom tour for you short of mountaineering which is illegal in Bhutan!
Yangphel
They even run treks up to Lunana, where the “Yak In A Classroom” movie was filmed! No Sunday stroll that!
Bhutan is fabulous! Now that BA is going back to BKK that would be the way to go, unless you have a penchant for DEL queues and mindless bureaucracy. DrukAir also goes to KTM. KTM-PBH would be an epic flight if the wx was good! Since all flights into PBH are necessarily VFR you would be bound to get some good views in almost any event. Just ensure you sit on the left side!
Anyway, you still have to go through an accredited tour company to get a Bhutan visa - no popping in there! And they’ve upped their daily tourist ’tax’ to about 100 quid per day to pay for their universal healthcare and education. The ‘tax’ also serves to keep the riff-raff out.
I was on a wildlife tour run by a S African company but they use Yangphel Adventure Travel as their in-country providers. Super lot them. They will do any sort of custom tour for you short of mountaineering which is illegal in Bhutan!
Yangphel
They even run treks up to Lunana, where the “Yak In A Classroom” movie was filmed! No Sunday stroll that!
Bhutan is fabulous! Now that BA is going back to BKK that would be the way to go, unless you have a penchant for DEL queues and mindless bureaucracy. DrukAir also goes to KTM. KTM-PBH would be an epic flight if the wx was good! Since all flights into PBH are necessarily VFR you would be bound to get some good views in almost any event. Just ensure you sit on the left side!
Apr 15, 2024, 8:13 am
#1768
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Apr 15, 2024, 11:40 am
#1769
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Thanks both - not my main source of income, but one I'm trying to make more of.
Some from London after a trip to the far east
A few from Blackpool after a shuttle to MAN
Tainan, Taiwan
