Friday, October 31, 2014

Europe again

Ok i just came back from 2 weeks backpacking to europe.

Started my journey pen-kul-frankfurt 
Balik from istanbul-kul-frankfurt

Ticket was rm 3093 with malaysian airlines.

Our journey
Frankfurt- prague
Prague-munchen
Munchen-zagreb
Zagreb-dubrovnik
Dubrovnik-mostar
Mostar-sarajevo
Sarajevo-istanbul
Istanbul-kul
Kul-pen

Initially we wanted to add on salzburg and slovenia in the iternary tapi when the actual travelling started we decided to cancel it sebab exhausted sangat

All in all i am thankful that all my plans and iternaries have been finalised. Insyaallah will try to write in details in later post.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Ipoh



We had a quick getaway to ipoh last weekend. Ayah had work to do and since we wanna spend weekend together we decided that kids can skipped school on sunday and thus accompany ayah to ipoh. We had fun since kids got to meet their cuzzin in ipoh. 









Sempat berbasikal lagi. Hahaha ok ciao

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Koh Lipe



We went to Koh Lipe during cny holidays. Kids tak cuti panjang pun so elok la the short break to lipe.
We started our journey after subuh from sp. It took nearly 2 hrs for us to reach wang kelian boarder. This is our first time masuk thailand through wang kelian boarder. Sebelum ni masuk through bukit kayu hitam and padang besar only.
Since it was thursday there were almost no other people entering the boarder. It is usually crowded during saturday and sunday when the boarder is open for tourist to enter without any documentation.
After going through immigration checks we stopped by for some pulut ayam. Since it was still early since we are in thailand hence the one hour delay, we arrived in thailand at 7.30 thailand time.
Lepas makan terus drive ke pak barra to catch the ferry. Kami tak beli teket pun lagi. Sampai sana baru pi beli teket. You can survey a few ticketing and boat company. We opted for bundhaya speed boat services. Dapat rm 90 return for adult and rm70 for children. Katanya satu jam setengah naik boat

Ya kena bayar lagi sorang 20 bhat nak masuk pier dia. Kids tak payah bayaq. The ferry ride was terrifying for me. Adoiii sakit kepala nak muntah segala lah. It took em more than 2 hrs to reach lipe. Sampai lipe they will transfer us into a platform regardless you naik ferry or speed boat. From there you have to pay entrance to lipe ticket for 30 bhat and long tail boat ticket to ferry you to the island for 50 bhat. Dekat je pun tapi tak bolehla berenang.
One of the platform

The long tail boat ride


This beach is called the pattaya beach. The most happening beach. Tapi banyak boat sangat sampai kacau kalau nak mandi manda and all.
 Nothing much sold at the walking street. Mostly food and drinks and a bit of sovenirs and clothings. We stayed at bangroon new room. Quite expensive. Would rather find a room in sunrise beach. Lagi cantik. Ok enjoy the piccas.







Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Umrah


I have always wanted to go to mecca, no doubt about that. But we were undecided whether we should perform our obligatory hajj first then umrah or perform umrah first then the obligatory hajj. 

We have registered ourselves with tabung haji and after having our appeal for hajj turned down for two consecutive years we have decided to go for our umrah first. Little did we know that we would be given rezki to bring our children along.

We first did our registration with Tiram Travel. Their advertisement in the paper is so enticing. We were promised a cahretered flight direct to jeddah/ medina to be determimed later with either Mas, Saudi Air or Nas Air. The accomodation was to be in the zam zam tower, a mere 50 metre from the al haram.
The main reason why we decided to take up with tiram is for the accommodation. Having decided to bring the kids we think the nearer the accommodation is to the mosque is better.

We made our bookings in october for december journey. However nearing end of november we have heard that quite a number of Tiram Travel packages has been canceled or postponed. And a week before our journey the hq people of Tiram Travel gave us a call saying that our trip has been cancelled as they did not obtain landing rights for the chartered flight. We were so devastated and frustrated.

Alhamdulillah we managed to find a new package with andalusia travel and our trip need only be postponed a day later.


Thursday, January 09, 2014

Soul searching



Alhamdulillah for the opportunity.