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Flying is all part of the travel experience. And if you've bagged a window seat, sightseeing begins the minute you take off.

Browse the gallery for an eye-popping portfolio of passenger photographs taken from the cabin.

(Photo: Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

▲A flight approaching Brisbane, the bustling capital of Queensland. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

▲Views from a Vueling flight from Barcelona to Malaga. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲The magnificent—and these days, extremely fragile—Great Barrier Reef. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲Circling over Doha while preparing to land.

▲Leaving Winchester, Massachusetts, and flying west over the Atlantic. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲A very cold-looking Detroit River. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲Fraser Valley, British Columbia, en route to Vancouver. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲Flying into Yangon over a patchwork of paddy fields. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲The approach to San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲Bound for the port city of Kisumu, somewhere above the Rift Valley. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

▲The summit of Mt Rainer, also known as Tahoma or Tacoma, in Washington state. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

▲Landing at Lampa, in the rural zone northwest of Santiago. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲The sugar-coated summits of the the Bernese Alps, seen during a flight from Copenhagen to Milan. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲The shadow of the photographer's aircraft is cast on rice fields as it flies over Taitung county, eastern Taiwan.

▲Circling the city after taking off from Washington, D.C. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲The Strait of Gibraltar, separating Europe from Africa. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲Taking off at sunrise over Bradenton, Florida. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲Skirting the Gold Coast, Queensland. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

▲A frozen Lake St. Clair, Ontario. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲The view shortly after leaving Abu Dhabi. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲High above the Ventana Wilderness, located in the Santa Lucia Range along the Central Coast of California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)

▲Heading southbound over the Abaco Islands. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

▲Lake Mead, located just outside Las Vegas, Nevada.

▲Departing Palma de Mallorca over the Balearic Islands. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲Low-lying clouds cover valleys between peaks in the Austrian Alps.

▲The blue Bay of San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

▲Flying over the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and another plane's mid-troposphere contrail and silhouetted shadow. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲Following the meandering River Rhine. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

▲The wide expanse of the bay on approach to San Francisco, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

▲The outline of Mono Lake, California. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Passing over Sarawak, Borneo. (Photo: Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

Window seat views: flightseeing from airplanes

Passenger photographs from the cabin

26/02/19 por StarsInsider

TRAVEL View from airplane

Flying is all part of the travel experience. And if you've bagged a window seat, sightseeing begins the minute you take off.

Browse the gallery for an eye-popping portfolio of passenger photographs taken from the cabin.

(Photo: Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0)

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