G'day all,
I've done a fair bit of flying around Laos, I missed out on the chopper run, but that only came up on offer when our little Cessna was broken down, blokes who did the chopper run said they'd never do it again, i don't recall what type of chopper it was, but the blokes told me it was a relic, possibly out of Russia, they were glad when it touched down.......
The Cessna we used flew pretty low, so the 3hr flight through Laos was pretty good weaving through the clouds, looking over the villages, jungle covered lime stone bluffs and escarpments (sometimes we were a bit too close up for my liking to these),,,,,, rice paddys, fish farms, sections of thick jungle and other sections full of regrowth and strange most unnatural round ponds scattered through out.. believe the "ponds" were excavated for the Loas folk by Uncle Sam back in the 70's...... he made plenty of them, 1000's actually.......
Places like Bangkok from the air are pretty awesome too, that's one big sprawling city. Coming into Singapore at night, i was often amazed by the ships sitting off Singapore, had to look twice, as at first glance you'd swear you were flying over town areas, as the amount of lit up ships looked like suburbs or towns.......
Flown plenty around the New Britain and New Ireland Province of PNG, seen Mount Tavurvur (Volcano off Rabaul) in full angry mode, Port Moresby and the Owen Stanley ranges, home of the Kokoda Track, ...... plus some of the most pristine, mostly untouched reefs, islands on the planet.... Trobriand Islands are up there with the best island reef spots anywhere i'd reckon.
Catch yas'
Barrabart.
