2014 Bali, Indonesia Scenes & Wildlife
Folder: Far East
Pictures from our visit to the hotel Maya Ubud, inland at Bali. The hotel is on the side of a river valley filled with lush vegetation and having tracks along the river side. Chosen because of the possibility of interesting wildlife here. As well as a wide range of general wildlife, we had over 60 species of Moths recorded at our garden villa, which are now in a companion Album in this folder.
01 Flight 1: Ready for take-off to Doha
02 A Surprise View of a Concorde at Heathrow
|
|
Taxi-ing to the runway, an interesting sight from a by-gone time came into view. Apparently this is the last Concorde which is still held by British Airways. G-BOAB, known previously as Speedbird Alpha-Bravo. It is a totally stripped plane on the inside, which BA wanted to display as a commemorative symbol at Heathrow, but it was not allowed by the new owners of the airport. At the time of our passing it, it is currently parked behind BA's Engineering Workshops with an uncertain future.
03 Flight 1: Over Central Turkey
|
|
Heading east over Turkey, a number of large towns were visible. Always difficult to take this sort of picture from 37,000ft, the clear air helped to get a good exposure and with a bit of post processing, the main road lighting shows up clearly as well as some of the suburbs.
04 Doha: In The Premium Lounge
|
|
This is a new quiet rest area at Qatar Airport for Business Class passengers awaiting their flights.
05 Awaiting our Connecting Flight to Bali
|
|
Not yet half-way there, it is not easy to rest when it is after midnight and awaiting a boarding call.
06 Executive Coach to the Aircraft
|
|
We were finally kept waiting until the last minute for boarding, until this amazing transfer coach arrived for the Business Passengers. It's the first time weve seen a transfer coach with saloon easy chairs fitted for the passengers, so we supposed that the normal coach couldn't be got and the First Class coach was all that was around. Not a particularly good picture, but I didn't want to intrude on the other passengers sitting to the right of me at 02.00 local time.
07 Flight 2: Bedding Down Time Across The Indian O…
|
|
The modern Qatar Airways Airbus had the dark blue night lighting, giving a soft, ample lighting for the rest of the night for sleeping passengers.
08 Flight 2: Dawn Over India at 38000ft
|
|
Modern aircraft now cruise high enough to get a feeling of being on the edge of space. As we headed east, the approaching dawn produced this dramatic lighting effect, more effective than at ground level.
09 Flight 2: Breakfast Over The Andaman Sea
|
|
One of the main reasons for travelling to the Tropics is that we get a chance to try more exotic fruits, and breakfast here was an indication of things to come.
10 Bali: Evening Arrival at Ngurah Rai Internation…
|
|
After a 10 hour flight it was nice to be on the ground again and the airport was negotiated to reach our transfer vehicle for Maya Ubud. it was again coming to Dusk, and by the time we finally reached our destination through the heavy traffic around Denpasar, it was dark.
11 Maya Ubud Hotel Entrance
|
|
|
Even the arrival was impressive, and confirmed our expectation. This hotel is approached via a long private drive with a security gate at the entrance, so once on the site it was peaceful and a different world from the busy roads around the area.
12 The main swimming pool on the edge of the valle…
|
|
Perched on the steep edge of the river valley, even swimming there gave wonderful views along it.
13 Roof-top viewing platform over the Restaurant A…
14 Central Southern Gardens at Hotel
|
|
From the roof-top vantage, a view south along the central gardens. on the left is a row of villas of which the second was ours for the stay.
15 View Over The Pool into The Gardens
16 Another rooftop view into the valley
|
|
The bare trees in the centre of this view are Kapok trees and were casting away their soft downy seeds all the time we were there. The Gazebo on the left was where you could have a special private evening meal. We used it on the last night to celebrate our 45 Wedding Anniversary. The staff at this hotel were all really nice, and made the day and evening really "Special" for us.
17 Looking across the open-air theatre
|
|
You can just see above the purple Bougainvillea at bottom right the steep steps which lead down into the valley on a 1in 1.5 slope in a series of zig-zags. Not too bad going down, but a real struggle coming back up!
18 Southernmost view of Valley looking over the Sp…
|
|
|
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest items - Subscribe to the latest items added to this album
- ipernity © 2007-2024
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter