Drifting Clouds 片雲の風

At a squeak over 10,000 miles, this trip is no great shakes when it comes to distance, but there can’t be too many places on Earth with a greater level of contrast than its endpoints.

In the left corner, we have the virtually untouristed capital of a filthy rich, rigidly conservative, strictly Islamic absolute monarchy in one of the world’s most arid countries:

RUH DAFIF Riyadh [King Khalid Airport], SA

And in the right corner, we have the rather less wealthy yet famously liberal, only notionally Hindu and immensely tourism-friendly tropical paradise of Bali:

DPS DAFIF Denpasar [Ngurah Rai – Bali Intl], Bali, ID

I’m going to one of these for work, and the other for play, so my esteemed readers are invited to guess which one is which. Here’s the exact routing courtesy of the Great Circle Mapper:

SIN-DXB-RUH-DXB-SIN-DPS-SIN

That’s SIN-DXB on Singapore Airlines (SQ) Y, DXB-RUH on Saudi Arabian (SV) Y, and SIN-DPS on SQ C.

Index

• Singapore
  • SQ494 SIN-DXB Y B777-300 seat 35H
• Dubai
  • SV 559 DXB-RUH Y B777-200 seat 40C
• Riyadh
  • SV 554 RUH-DXB Y B777-200 seat 54L
  • SQ 375 DXB-SIN Y B777-200 seat 59D
• Singapore, part 2
  • SQ 946 SIN-DPS C B777-200 seat 15A
• Bali
  • Reviews of a Gourmet Snob: Kafe Warisan, Seminyak, Bali
  • SQ 943 DPS-SIN C B777-200 seat 15D