9 hour layover after flight from Brussels so got a room for a quick sleep right near airport nice and refreshed next morning,  ready for long haul to Sydney lining up for take off couple of A380's Qantas leading the way take off Marriott Hotel Dubai in the foreground on take off Dubai creek curving around Al Ras Port Rashid banking around Port Rashid Jumeirah with the main Dubai strip in the background Burj Khalifa and Sheikh Zayed Road Meydan, just out of Dubai, it's all about Racing here been a while since I set foot in there last time I was there they just started building the Burj leaving UAE and flying over Gulf of Oman Arabian Sea over India leaving India near South East tip of India, crossing the Gulf Of Manar to Sri Lanka.  Those white buildings you see, looks like industrial estates, they are actually salt farms, the one on the top, which looks like the bigger buildings is the salt making lakes at ThutukudiThoothukudi Port at the bottom of the photo Sri Lanka, somewhere near Chilaw Flying over Sri Lanka Coastline on the East Coast of Sri Lanka hear Yala National Park and Bundala salt farm at the bottom of the photo and I can see waves out the front of Bundala and looking at that coastline, there's got to be waves a plenty. From here on it was just cloudy and an uneventful sunset and then arrive at Sydney at 5 am when it was still pitch black