Leg 6: WPDL (Comoro, Dili, East Timor) to WRRR (Bali International, Indonesia)
Date: 14
September, 2003
Time:
2.40 - 4.53pm
Distance:
617.1nm
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Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, with 17,000 islands, 6000 of them uninhabited. We're going straight through some of these islands today.
We take off
from Dili...
A few minutes
later on the airplane's right, we can see the start of the long straight
row of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which East Timor also belongs to. The
island on the right of the screenshot above is Alor, separated by two
smaller islands, followed by Pantar.
After Pantar
comes Lomblen. The island has a length of around 50 miles.
Next comes
Flores, which has a length of 200 miles. Next to Flores (which I don't
have a screenshot) are the Komodo Islands. The world's largest living
lizard, the Komodo Dragon, lives here.
This island
is Lombok, and the mountain surrounding the lake is Mt Rinjaya at 3726m.
Landing at
Bali...
...with lovely
Palm trees lining the runway.
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