Sunday, May 29, 2005

Bangalore to Seoul

I started from Bangalore on 25th of May. Couldn't get direct flight to Singapore, so had to fly to Mumbai to catch a flight to Singapore. So, it was like Bangalore-Mumbai-Singapore-Seoul. The flight to Mumbai was scheduled at 8pm. Due to bad weather in Bangalore; the flight got delayed by an hour. Reached the Mumbai International Airport at around 11pm. The check-in procedure for an international flight starts 3 hrs prior to its departure. We were lucky that we did not have any problem in checking-in the baggage. Then rushed through the immigrations and customs officials. When we reached to designated gate, the boarding process had already started. Had it been another 20 minutes, we would have surely missed the flight. We were almost on the edge.

Bangalore to Singapore flight was a much better one. The infrastructure provided by Singapore airlines is definitely better than that provided by the Thais, the one I traveled last with. Every seat had its own display system, with Audio/Video Broadcast (Streaming/On-demand), Games and News facility available. Watched Hulchul on-board. The flight had also got an Indian menu, unlike Thai counter-part where we had only continental food served. Enjoyed the food. It was a 5 hrs flight, so got enough time for a small nap too.

My experience in the flight from Singapore to Seoul was similar. It was a 6 hrs flight. In all, I was flying for almost 12 and half hours to reach to Seoul, 4 hrs more than I flew last time in Thai. But the experience was much better.

After collecting baggage from the airport, we headed towards Suwon, the place of our work, by bus. It took us around one and half hours to reach to the Suwon Bus Station. Pandey (Guest house guy) received my there and finally reached the guest house at around half past seven in the evening, that is 4pm in India. Got to see some of my old friends here, had a decent dinner and a good sleep in the night.

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