We departed Bangalore International Airport on 1 Jun 2011 to Abu Dhabi on Etihad Airways. Etihad, much to our surprise, had very nice on board services and excellent, steaming hot meals and comfortable seats for the economy class. On arriving at Abu Dhabi at 7.00 AM we realized that we had a day long transit before our connecting flight to Cape Town much later that Night – its only with such incidents do we learn to check the transit time before hand!! Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal was quiet fascinating. It was a small and non entertaining airport, but the people and their culture was fascinating to look at – be it the prayers on the PAS, the whole architecture of the airport, or men accompanied by more than 1 wives!! Hours passed merely by eating, reading
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