You are staring at a crossroads of concourses, marveling at the synchronized workings of a massive airport terminal. Or maybe you're just scrutinizing the transfer of your bags, since there were a few fumbles while this new complex was ironing out the kinks. Built three years ago at a cost of four billion dollars, the high-tech hub was designed by a German-born architect whose name may elicit a yawn (nothing to do with his aesthetic; after all, he made a huge post-reunification splash in a Berlin square). The canopied roofs and other features of the airport's infrastructure lay claim to several superlatives—you know, the biggest this, the tallest that. The facility was inaugurated a week after the overthrow of a long-serving leader (his name made you think of Ol' Blue Eyes). In fact, alleged corruption during the construction phase helped lead to his downfall.
The official name of the capital city you are about to visit, which lies just north of a bight, contains more than sixty syllables. The bustle of myriad merchants hawking their colorful goods on its canals helps make it one the world's most touristed cities. To avoid the nightmarish traffic, you could explore the metropolis via subway or, better still, the new elevated trains. It's even more thrilling to cruise—at a ticket cost of less than a dollar—on one of the express boats that fly up and down the waterway (the 230-mile-long "royal river" is west of the main urban districts). If you've planned an unorthodox visit—a sex change operation, say—you're in the right place, and if you wish to attend a boxing match, plenty of them get staged here, but we aren't talking Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Come departure time, pause to admire the terminal's vibrant works of art reflecting the country's ancient glories. A magnificent towering throne of wood and gold leaf has a base covered with deities and celestial bodies as well as a five-tiered-roof whose spire sports banana blossoms and lotus clusters. It's not often you get the royal treatment at the airport…
Where are you, anyhow?
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Suvarnabhumi Airport New Bangkok, Thailand


http://www.airportsuvarnabhumi.com/gallery/

My goodness Songbird - I bet you have hit the nail on the head - looks good to me. I was about to research it before I clicked the page up and saw you had replied LOL - record time I'd think.

Let's see if you're right - my thinking is that you are - if so, very well done indeed.

Thenostromer posted this topic at 3:37 p.m. and Song_bird posted the answer at 3:50 p.m. The timing is too precise to be normal. The best that I can figure is these two are in cahoots on this topic.

I am going to find me a photo of a phantom place and post it just to see how long it will take someone to figure it out. I'll bet it will take longer than 13 minutes.

Nope, no cahoots. Song_bird is just very good at this game. Nicely done.
Reminds of the early days of Quoteland where there were several of us that would race to be the first to find the answer to a question.

Yep, no cohoots.

This one was easy.

Old Blue Eyes = Sinatra

Ousted leader = Shinawatra

Shinawatra = Thailand

Airport in Thailand = Suvarnabhumi

Took all of two minutes to google.

Well I just had a notion that ya'll were in cahoots in this venture like Pokey & Gumby. I have had notions that were completely false but the are often few and far between.

Suvarnabhumi looks like an airport in a science fiction movie. It is very futuristic.

For the uninitiated, Suvarnabhumi is a Marathi/Sanskrit word.

Suvarna - Golden
Bhumi - Earth, Land, space.

So Suvarnabhumi is in other words the Golden Land.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

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Originally posted by thenostromo:
Nope, no cahoots. Song_bird is just very good at this game. Nicely done.
Reminds of the early days of Quoteland where there were several of us that would race to be the first to find the answer to a question.

I remember such an occasion TN, I was always desperate to get the answer in quickly, but had to get it right haha!!

Now oddly enough one of those I'm thinking about was the October Quiz and I think it was 2003!

Well done Songbird.