Monthly Archives: May 2009

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Colombo:

• 12.15AM – Check in at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) was easy with Emirates Online Check-in, also we can get the seats as we wanted
• 01.00AM – Felt kinda hungry while waiting for boarding, so had a $1 Burger at BIA
• 03.00AM – Boarding, Helped another Tamil guy who was going to Doha
• 03.30AM – Take-off from Colombo, The ICE Entertainment system was nice and had few Tamil and Hindi movies and also some good collection of music
• 04.00AM – With Special Online Order, we got special Breakfast (served earlier too) including the Hindu Meal for Ramanan. The food on Emirates was good as expected
• 04.00AM – Slept for sometime and watched a movie.

Dubai:

• 06.00AM – Landed in Dubai International Airport
• 06.30AM – Walked around Dubai Duty Free
• 07.00AM – Helped the Sri Lankan guy going to Doha, whom we met at Colombo airport, to find his boarding gate
• 07.30AM – Breakfast at Starbucks
• 08.30AM – Slept for a while near our Boarding Gate Area
• 10.30AM – Boarding
• 12.00PM  – Take-off from Dubai
• 12.30PM – Special Lunch (again), the Oriental lunch on Emirates was good
• 01.30PM – On flight drinks, but just soft drinks only

Istanbul:

• 03.00PM – Landed in Istanbul Atatürk International Airport
• 03.45PM – Finish immigration
• 05.00PM – Wait till the group from Michigan to arrive
• 07.00PM – Arrived at Hotel, but we didn’t have a room there, so went to a university dorm
• 08.30PM – Went to for dinner with our ICAMES guide, Can Üzüm
• 09.30PM – Dinner at KFC in a mall
• 11.00PM – Had Cappuccino at Bebek Starbucks with few other ICAMES groups
• 12.00AM – Came back to room

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