Day 1: Leaving Home
Starting the trip from Munich airport with a stopover in Dubai we, my girlfriend Rian and I started our 167 day trip to the mega city Shanghai.
After starting in Munich with rain and temperatures in the 16C(60F) we landed in Dubai about 7 hours later not really knowing where to put our raincoats and wool sweaters at 38C(100F) at 10h. Due to the longer stay we had quite something to carry around, with about 15kg of hand luggage we pretty much maxed out the allowance by +200%.
Cueing in line for check-in Dubai we were sweating a little bit as the man before us had to check in his by far smaller "hand luggage", with a couple notebooks and cameras inside with was not an option, but a swift smile brought us through and the 9h flight to china began. Flying into the rising sun makes it difficult to sleep but we managed to get a few hours out of it.
