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Pouros International Airport


Pouros International Airport
Photo Information
Copyright: Mimi Samuel (mimi) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 400 W: 342 N: 271] (2297)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05
Categories: Nature, Transportation
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-10-27 19:01
Viewed: 830
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Just kidding about the international airport, but this is the landing strip at Pouros, just west of the Skeleton Coast. As our outbound plane was landing, our guide backed the Land Rover out into the "runway," jumped up on the hood and unfurled a roll of toilet paper as a windsock for the pilot. Not very high tech, but perfectly effective.

See the workshop for the "boarding gate."
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  • Great 
  • pcp Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 345 W: 111 N: 468] (2523)
  • [2007-10-27 19:23]

ha ha ha ... looks like a dessert for me, nice landscape and POV. Brilliant blue sky with clouds.

TFS

Senthil

I had a quite similar experience in Botswana, when I flew a small Cessna to and from the Okavango Delta. It was a great trip as we flew very low over the delta. I like your photo and I really think the WS is also excellent. Well done.
Antonio

PS. Please check my gallery for some African pictures.

Hi Mimi

Great color and very sharp. What a landscape. Like the pov.
This is one place that I would love to visit. Anyhow well done.
Ben

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  • Luko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2702 W: 503 N: 2853] (13475)
  • [2007-10-28 5:02]
  • [+]

Haha I love those kind of international airports...
I hope they also expect to open a direct flight to another international airport I visited in Ibo Mozambique this summer. The pilot had to land in a two steps procedure first flight over the runway to frighten the cows eating the grass, then real landing if the wind was still alright.
(btw Mimi, I've seen you were in Moz in august too, have you been up to Ilha and Ibo by any chance?)

no way your luggage will be lost:)
nice one

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