Philippine Travel Notes

Let's continue my  adventure from the previous article... I was thinking, the title of this blog post should have been " my bumming around the Noi Bai International Airport Terminal 2 ", since that is just what I did this afternoon! As usual, I enjoyed it. Maybe I was born to live among airports and airplanes! This was the last picture in that  previous article . I arrived at this airport 12:18NN. Yes my prayers were heard, that the drowsy driver don't sleep on the road. Salamat! I may probably have been too excited to have arrived safely - since I took that photo while driver was still offloading my luggage from his taxi (at left, not seen in picture) ! Well, it's been long since I was last in a life-and-death situation hahaha! Anyway... Departure Curbside Let's interpret/annotate the photo above. That's the foyer and lobby, by the curbside (left edge of pic) , where passengers walk, to enter the check-in area doors (D1 & D2). Loo...

Let's continue on that previous story... Domestic Arrival at Siem Reap So I arrived at Siem Reap via a domestic flight from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I was only transferring at this airport - to an international flight bound for Hanoi, Vietnam. A lovely day. Most passengers (include me) could not help but shoot a pic "or more"! This red roofed building (the original) is now called Terminal 2 - Domestic Terminal . Expansions were done in 2006. The newer structures are to the right (not in photo). I looked to that right for this "from the tarmac view" of T1 - International Terminal . Nostalgia-evoking, as it nears closure, in favor of their new airport rising farther east . You probably didn't know... As of this writing, this airport is " the last remaining " in all of Southeast Asia, that is: " purely single-level " (horizontal edifice, no escalator nor aerobridge, what for anyway?) ; still used for " international fligh...