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<\/a><\/br>Siem Reap Airport Internatioanl Terminal Exterior<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Once in the airport, it was like back to civilization from the chaotic Siem Reap streets. Although that civilization didn’t last long with the presence of some Chinese tour groups (their flight seemed to hit some delay, which added to the chaos).<\/p>\n I was to perform a 70-minute separate-ticket international-to-domestic transfer at Kuala Lumpur, which was only possible with through-check of my bags. Luckily, Malaysia Airlines was among the almost-extinct rank of airlines that through-check bags on separate bookings, although this did take the check-in lady some time.<\/p>\n It’s Siem Reap, so expectedly the immigration officers were “politely implying” bribes, which I “courteously” turned down.<\/p>\n <\/br>BIOS Screen at Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Art at Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Bathroom at Siem Reap Airport<\/br>A far cry from the usual filth in this country.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Shops at Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n At the shops, the Chinese tour group nannies were happily trying to exchange all their remaining United States Dollars, guess they are not the most seasoned travelers.<\/p>\n <\/br>Boarding Passes<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Passengers of Spring Airlines Flight 8743 Arriving from Chengdu<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cambodia Angkor Air ATR-72 (XU-236) and Bassaka Air A320 (XU-112)<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Small Planet Airlines A320 (LY-SPB)<\/br>Flying between Siem Reap and Ho Chi Minh City for the day..<\/br>I\u2019m wondering why a Lithuanian carrier could fly so freely between two Asia countries..<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Bangkok Airlines A319 (HS-PPG)<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cambodia Angkor Air A320 (XU-356)<\/br>Strange thing was that this aircraft served regular passenger flights, yet Cambodia Angkor Air didn\u2019t seem bothered to print it.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Boarding My Flight to Kuala Lumpur<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Legroom of First Row Economy<\/br>Not that much more spacious compared with the other rows of the economy cabin, but no more worries about pushing my knees against the seat back in front.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n But since there’s no ground storage, I tried very hard to push everything I needed for the flight (laptop, earphones) into the tiny pocket in the front, which wasn’t that easy. <\/br>Domestic Terminal of Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Lao Airlines ATR-72 Landing<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Onto Runway<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Temple by Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Roads to Siem Reap from Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Farmland in West Siem Reap<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Farmland and Houses in West Siem Reap<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Siem Reap Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Angkor Wat in the Distance<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Sitting on the left of the plane, I once hoped to catch a glimpse of the Angkor Wat’s from above. It seemed that ground visibility that day didn\u2019t allow.<\/p>\n <\/br>Downtown Siem Reap<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Downtown Siem Reap and Siem Reap River<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Wetlands in South Siem Reap<\/p><\/div> <\/br>River and Forest in Cambodia<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Shadow of Plane on Clouds<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Ponds East of Siem Reap<\/br>Cloud be some ancient ruins.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Stains on Tray Table<\/br>Obviously the plane wasn’t thoroughly cleaned in Siem Reap. What\u2019s worse, since the first row of economy cabin doesn\u2019t have ground storage during takeoff, and between me and my tissue papers in the overhead bins sat a soundly asleep baby, I had to wait for the cabin crew for meal services to wipe that out.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Lunch<\/br>Chicken and Rice. I really liked Malaysia Airlines’ idea of adding flavors to what would otherwise be just plain rice, like the ones on Chinese carriers.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Clouds over Malaysian Shore<\/p><\/div> <\/br>South Bentong Town<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Bukit Jalil National Stadium behind Clouds<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Selangor Turf Club<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Seremban<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Senawang<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Linggi River Into the Sea<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cape Rachado<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Port Dickson<\/br>With an AirAsia A320 parallel approaching.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Plantations near Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>KLIA2 Terminal<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n We arrived at Kuala Lumpur basically on time, and international-to-domestic transfer at KLIA was basically like up the stairs, 50 meters, down the stairs, immigration (with no other people waiting), 50 meters, sit and relax.<\/p>\n <\/br>Kuala Lumpur Airport Terminal Interior<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Kuala Lumpur Airport Bathroom<\/br>Well, not as modern as the ones in Siem Reap.<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/br>Plantations in Kuala Lumpur Airport<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Waiting Area in Kuala Lumpur Airport Main Building<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Boarding My Flight to Langkawi<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Since it was a short flight to Langkawi, we didn’t enter runway 32R at full length for takeoff. Guess they would never allow such maneuvers were never allowed in China.<\/p>\n <\/br>Malaysia Airlines A380 (9M-MLN) and Emirates Airlines A380 (A6-EQD)<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Ponds in South Puchong<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Downtown Klang<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Kapar Energy Plant<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Winding Selangor River<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Snacks Served<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Perak River<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Coastal Town of Lumut<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Just before landing, I got a glimpse of Cenang Beach, where I would be staying for the next to nights.<\/p>\n <\/br>Island off Cenang Beach<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Cenang Beach and Resorts<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Exiting Aircraft from the Rear<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n And Langkawi Airport was a have-nothing walk-yourself airport, with some <\/br>Winglet of Malaysia Airlines B738 under Cloudy Langkawi Sky<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Sunset over West Langkawi<\/p><\/div> <\/br>Passengers Disembarking Flight<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Guess my bag was put on the plane last because of the transfer, it was among the first to come out. After that, it was taxi ride to the hotel, booking next morning’s mangrove expedition, and some sound sleep. Time to leave Cambodia as I picked up my luggage from the hostel and was immediately greeted by the waiting Tuk-Tuk driver on the street, who gave me a mystical smile (as God knows how many times in… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,201,2],"tags":[215,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhen performing web check-in for my flight, I found quite to my surprise that seat 5A (first row economy) was available for choice, as these seats were usually locked for premium status customers. Since I would be transferring at Kuala Lumpur, getting off the plane faster never harmed.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nSadly, there was too much cloud over Kuala Lumpur that day. Based on the GPS tracks, I should be able to get a clear view of KLCC towers should there be no clouds.
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\nOne terrible thing about this orange juice was that, it was filled too full that it spilled over all over the tray table (and my cloth) upon opening, which did created quite trouble for me to clean it up.
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\n(Oh, did my bag ever clear customs or not?)
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