Helsinki > Bangkok

Interesting landscapes, moulded clouds over snow covered… Russia ? First time I'm flying with Finnair, did not start to well, journey supposed to start in Brussel to connect to Helsinki. And knowing that the flight arriving in Finland would only have an hour before the flight to Bangkok would depart, I naturally had a mini panick attack when on the screen it said my flight would be delayed by just under 2 hours, eeeeek. So a few phonecalls later, it came close to me being re routed via Zurich then onto an Ethithad flight to Bangkok. But then word came through that the flight to Bangkok would also be delayed, and I would have about 5 minute to make it to my flight in Helsinki. So I did not let it get to me, enjoy my flight to Helsinki I thought ( after sunset by the way, so no photos ) But then prior to arriving, they could not provide me the gate details I needed to rush to , and to make it worse, the plane did not even stop at the gate, but at the tarmac instead, there goes my 5 mins I thought. And to make it even worse, as soon as you got off the ladder from the plane, the tarmac was 15 cm deep in a wet slushy snow, so not like people were walking at their normal pace to the bus, ratatata…..As soon as I got to a monitor inside, it was ok, as that flight was also delayed , and not going anywhere for another 1 hour or so, cool, ohj wait, no, not cool, I have a connecting flight in Bangkok, normally I would had 3 hours at the airport in Bangkok, but now 2 hours late, plus this 1 hour late, there's my 3 hours, yikes. anyway, let's wait till we get closer to Bangkok and find out I like this display they have on Finnair when you are looking at the flight map so yeah, where we are, in Kazakhstan maps need an update, as it shows the plane about to cross a big mass of water, but it is the now famous Aral sea, famous for it disappearing and all those photos off the ship cemetery not looking like it is shrinking today, but rather freezing up zoom out Frozen Aral Sea amazing detail
slowly leaving Kazakhstan I think, and heading to Afghanistan detail



love the shadow of the mountains on the snow below oh, still not Afghanistan, but Uzbekistan instead Malik, with Navoi airport Aydar Lake

what an amazing countryside, well mountainside
Snow on the Southern slopes so many interesting shapes so this is my set up, window is mainly closed due to people trying to sleep, so I catch up on Bill Maher's Real Time show, and on other screen have the flight map, so every 5-10 min I open the window to take another photo my plane 🙂 now we are crossing into Afghanistan
again, incredible sights detail massive detail stoked to get to see all this

what a country woauw




passing Kabul and about to cross into Pakistan

got to love a plane with windows in their toilets, to pee with a view like that, woauw gives me a chance to take some pics from the other side of the plane farmland Himalayas ! that's a big high mountain range End of India into the Bay of Bengal never get any good photos over India, everytime I look out it just seems to be always covered in a blanket of smog
next time I look out, we are crossing into Burma, and the province ( or is it state ) of Rakhine, with a great view of Cheduba Island, but hang on, what's that down there zooming in… Holy Schmoly, that's a lefthander breaking at the mouth of a river closer look, that's really lining up. Would love to have the time and money to get a boat for a month and go check it all out more river mouths a bit further down Pyunpye looking further south across the Sitsayan reserved forest and Bay of Bengal gold reflecting bay of bengal
what a trip, from the frozen lakes in Kazakhstan to the Tropics of Burma, and awesome imagery the whole way, awesome
Irrawaddy Delta reflecting tropical storm
amazing I just can't get enough of these, love it, sorry you might get a bit bored with it, I just love these images

probably river near Pyapon or Dedaye where the Irrawaddy Delta meets the Andaman Sea around the Thai-Burma border looking like one big tropical jungle getting close to Bangkok now Sri Nakaran lake going down in altitude. No more pics now, as I moved to the front of the plane. My connecting flight to Sydney commences boarding at 17:10 for a 17:55 departure. And as we approach Bangkok, it's already 17:25, so yeah, a bit worried about missing flight. Fast forward, so what happened was, the plane lands at 17:45, I had some ground crew already waiting for me, that ushered me through security screening, and then raced to my next gate, turns out I was not the only one which is good, as I was ahead of the pack being seated at the front of the plane. And then the funny part was when I made it on the plane, I was seated upstairs and had the same cabin crew from my flight to Europe from Sydney. So that was funny, naturally they were very helpful and calmed me down, as I was huffing and puffing from my little run across terminals. Now this must be one of my longest posts of cloud photos, hope you like.