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China > Sichuan > Chengdu Saturday, 23 Jan 2010 Chengdu is, of course, synonymous with the lovable Giant Pandas. Once inhabiting most of central and eastern modern-day China, now there are less than 2,000 pandas in the wild, thanks to widespread habitat destruction, with 80%-90% of them found in the mountains of northern Sichuan. The [...]
read more» 1 CommentPrologue Last Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, I took a noon Firefly flight from KL Subang Airport (SZB) bound for Penang (PEN). The flight utilised the France-made turboprop plane, ATR-72. Soon after taking off Runway 15, the plane climbed and made a tight right turn, flying over Subang Jaya, Shah Alam and Setia Alam, whence these [...]
read more» 8 CommentsPrologue I was on a Jetstar flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur last Saturday night (06 Feb 2010), and as I flipped through the highly-readable inflight mag, I spotted a story about the legendary Darwin Sunset. I actually witnessed my own Darwin Sunset last Oct, so here’s my tale … ~~~ Australia > Northern Territory [...]
read more» 5 CommentsAboard AirAsia X Flight D7-2623 from Chengdu to Kuala Lumpur, 26 Jan 2010 It’s a bad day in Chengdu, haze in freezing weather and flights are delayed. Our own flight D7-2623 pushes back some 20min late. Taxi-ing towards runway 02, and what a depressing sight. And this is 3.20pm! Soon we leave all the muck [...]
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