Our Future Home

Right now we are on a 3 week break from school for the Christmas holiday.  Thankfully, rather than sit around at home for 3 weeks, we have been able to travel to our future home of Palangkaraya, Kalamantan.  Wednesday we began our journey to get here, which consisted of two-1 hour flights.  Palankaraya is on a totally different island from where we are studying language and it feels like a totally different country.  

I spent all day at the hangar yesterday and was able to get my hands a little dirty in the aviation world once again.  All of our operations from PKY operate on and off of rivers.  I took the above picture from right in front of our floating hangar facilities in PKY yesterday. 

Float planes are definitely the minority here in Central Kalimantan.  We have to share the river with all sorts of floating vessels in every shape and size.

There are two float planes based in PKY.  Yesterday, when the plane returned for the day, it entered into a scheduled maintenance inspection.  The facilities here in PKY are very new and very well designed.  Compared to how the operations were conducted before, the new facility is very posh and vastly improves the operations here.  The second Cessna 185 can be seen in the background in the second slip.

We will be here for about 2 weeks before returning to Java to continue our language studies at the beginning of January.  Hopefully I will be able to post some more pictures during our time here.