
bussed it to the plane

good to go

Dnata training center, hmmm, interesting

Dubai, home of Emirates

cue-ing up

and we're off

bit smoggy today, 8am

top of the Burj in clear sky

can't see beyond Russian beach, Jumeirah blocked by smog

poking through near Dubai Marina

from Dubai, all past Persian Gulf, crossing into Iran near Kuwait, it was a thick cloud cover all the way, so I gave up looking and had a little nap, something jolted me up and made me look out the window, and am I glad I did
Somewhere after Basra flying North, so underneath me is Iran looking across mountains into Iraq

and a light dusting of snow on the higher peaks

must be really cold and hence crisp air and clear photos

beautiful

Kermanshah province, Iran

clouds rolling in again

but only a few cumulus, this would make a nice big print

give you an idea where I am

peaks are getting higher and so is the snow cover guessing Kurdistan

Sanandaj Airport

Town of Sanandaj

look toward Iraq

not sure they get this much snow here all the time ?

quite impressive

Saqqez

getting thicker that snow cover

anyone say ski terrain
Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Naqadeh, also known as Naghadeh, Naghdeh and Nagadeh, is a city in and the capital of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran 
Edge of Lake Urmia ( check the difference same flight 4 months ago, this flight left hand side, that flight right hand side and amazing photos of
Lake Urmia all pink )

City of Urmia and Urmia Dam

sharp turm left and gret shot of Urmia

look at all that snow behind it

Zagros Mountains

looking south along the Zagros mountain range

I'm guessing we are looking at three countries in this photo ( Iran, Iraq and Turkey )

Baskale

surprised there's no ski resorts :-)

town of Atalna on Lake Van, and interesting pattern in the water

Lake Van

Camel Neck Peninsula

oh woauw , look at this, looks like a volcanic crater or meteor impact

and this little crater just off it, with what looks like lava flow

turns out it is a crater with a lake inside
here some info I found
Nemrut Dagi is the westernmost of a group of volcanoes near Lake Van in eastern Anatolia and the only one that has erupted in historical time. Nemrut Dagi contains a 9 x 5 km caldera partially filled on its western side by a caldera lake. Post-caldera volcanism, of basaltic to rhyolitic composition, initially occurred along the caldera rim and floor. Pyroclastic flows and the emission of glassy obsidian lava flows accompanied construction of lava domes within the caldera; later activity formed a series of cinder cones and lava domes erupted along N-S-trending fissures on the northern flank. The most recent activity has been concentrated along a NNW-trending fissure cutting the eastern caldera floor and extending beyond the north caldera rim; nearly two dozen cinder cones and lava domes were constructed on the caldera floor. Ash layers in Lake Van document numerous Holocene eruptions, and an historical eruption in 1441 AD from a north-flank fissure involved compositionally bimodal lava flow 
Dam near Batman ?

Earthquake territory, so many recorded earthquakes in this region of East Turkey

Erzincan valley

Erzincan Airport

yes, there is a town called Batman in Turkey

Amasra on the black sea

Bartin Port

not alone

heading over the black sea

slowly leaving Turkey, to the far right is Istanbul

an hour or so later, Austria

looking towards the mountain at the back of Trieste

Germany

Belgium

going down

cloudy Belgium

Landed
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