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Malé Maldives VRMM Maldives to Colombo VCBI in Sri Lanka
Having checked the weather en route, clearing customs at
Malé
and refueling HB-PON, we took off and flew a circle
around the
Malé Island and its capital and then flew along an island
chain
in the Male Athol towards the north east.
The
Aircraft carrier Island....
Heading north east
Weather en route was great, except when we approached Sri
Lanka
mainland, we saw some CB's around and some low clouds.
To keep the approach simple and to avoid clouds and rain
to the
north, we landed with a visual approach at Colombo
International.
Our Handling agent was waiting for us at the assigned parking position
and a
very large passenger bus took us to the main inter-national terminal.
At the
airport we booked into a nice hotel, the Cinnamon Grand, in down
town just 45
minutes away by taxi cab.
Now we are in busy Colombo:
"Tuck-Tuck" the common means of transport
The obligatory shower after our arrival and of course
some large
beers to cool down were next on the agenda. In the hotels
English
pub, the Cheers Bar, we later enjoyed a rather not so
light
dinner with Spare ribs, some more Heinekens Bed time was
early,
to enable us to be awaken early next morning at 04h00,
for our
planned take-off at 06h00.
