Wednesday 24 April 2013

Beijing n Shanghai Part 1

Salam....Berjumpa lagi

Tanggal 1 Jun 2012, I berpeluang ke Beijing n Shanghai dgn POTO TRAVEL selama 7 hari 6 mlm. Sungguh I tak sangka I akan ke Bumi China pertama kali. My aim ialah Great Wall. Impian tercapai.

Hari Pertama (1 Jun 2012)
Kami berkumpul di KLIA jam 7.50 pg dan flight (Cathay Pasific) kami akan berlepas jam 10.50 pg. Kami dijangka sampai di Hong Kong Airport jam 2.40 ptg waktu tempatan. Flight (Dragon Air) seterusnya berlepas jam 5.00 ptg dan kami dijangka sampai di Beijing Airport jam 8.50 mlm. Di KLIA kami di sambut oleh Tour Leader (TL) dan Airport Officer dr POTO TRAVEL. Setelah diberikan sedikit taklimat mengenai Beijing kami ke Gate C32 utk berlepas ke Beijing. Akhirnya kami sampai di Beijing jam 9.15mlm. Tour Guide (TG)  Ah Tong sudah menunggu dan beliau boleh berbahasa Indon. Kami seteerusnya naik bas ke Hotel .. ... TL inggatkan kami  tiada breakfast di hotel dan kami akan memulakan lawatan tepat jam 8.00 pg. Wake up call jam 6.00pg. Setelah dapat kunci bilik kami terus ke bilik, bersihkan diri n zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

View Ketibaan di Beijing Airport bangunan baru. Menakjubkan dan sangat 
besar bangunan baru ni dibina sempena sukan olimpik di Beijing 2008.


Hari Ke Dua (2 Jun 2012)
Tepat jam 8.10 pg kami bergerak ke restoren tempatan utk Breakfast. Then kami ke Tian'an Men Square, merupakan dataran terbesar di dunia dan juga merupakan sempadan Great Hall of the People. Cuaca agak berkabus...nak kata jerubu mcm tidak. Entahlah... Yg penting I first time ke Beijing. Kami berjalan hampir 3 km utk sampai ke penghujung. Wah.....kekawan U all kena fit baru puas hati.

View Pintu masuk restoren tempatan utk kami breakfast

View tempat bas turunkan kami. Kami kena lalu terowong pejalan kaki bawah tanah 
utk ke Tian'anmen Square. Agak jauh juga dan banyak tangga.

View Abang Polis jaga lalu lintas. Motor besar tu...

View Gate Pemeriksaan Polis sebelum masuk ke Tian'anmen Square.

View .........Kesempatan yg ada digunakan sepenuhnya. 

View kedai di laluan ke Tian'anmen Square. Nampak tak tulisan arab tu...

View .....Restoren  Berperisa Itik Kot......

View Bunga bungaan penghujung musim

View Bunga lagi. Dekat laluan pejalan kaki sebelum melepasi pemeriksaan polis.

View Tian'anmen Square

Kekawan, Info Tian'anmen Square telah ada dlm entry terdahulu (Beijing Musim Sejuk).

View lagi...Sekitar Tian'anmen Square...Layan je lah.....

View Betapa luasnya dataran niii

View Map Tian'anmen Square. Yg penting kat sini lokasi tandas dan pintu keluar

 View Nampak dah Forbidden City siap dgn gambar pengasas komunis Mo Zee Thung

Seterusnya kami bergerak ke Forbidden City yg sangat masyur pd zaman pemerintahan Dinasti Ming sejak 500 tahun dahulu. Maaf kekawan Info Forbidden City juga ada dalam entry Beijing Musim Sejuk. Gambar macam blur...sebab cuaca bukan kamera.....

 View Forbidden City. Nampak tak askar ....??

 View Pintu masuk utama ke Forbidden City. Pelancong ramai kerana local 
people maklumlah China penduduknya ramai.....

View  Salah satu pertahanan pada zaman dahulu.

View Nak ke pintu kedua dalam Forbidden City

View melepasi pintu kedua

View Arca yg ada sebelum pintu ke tiga

View pintu ke tiga

View dr Pintu ke tiga mengadap pintu ke dua. Banyaknya manusia

View Istana Maharaja China Purba

View dataran bersebelahan Istana Maharaja. Nampaktak..bilik-bilik gundik 
Maharaja China. Ada yg mempunyai gundik seramai 3000 org. Wow

View Salah satu bahagian dalam istana.

View taman pada penghujung Forbidden City

Then kami bergerak ke restoren tempatan utk makan tengahari. Kebanyakkan menu berasaskan sayuran. Then kami bergerak ke Masjid Niujie utk solat. Masjid nii merupakan masjid yg tertua dan berdekatan denganya ada Muslim Super Market yg merupakan satu-satunya pusat membeli-belah utk muslim di Beijing.

View ruang solat di Masjid Niujie

View perkarangan Masjid

Then kami bergerak pula ke Silk Show Room. Kami ditunjukkan bagaimana menghasilkan kain dari sutera dan kami diajar cara membezakan yang mana asli dan yang mana palsu.

View Dr sini terhasilnya kain sutera

Kemudian kami dibawa ke restoren tempatan utk makan malam dan sebelum balik ke hotel kami menonton Persembahan Akrobatik.

 View pembukaan akrobatik

Kami sampai hotel jam 8.00 mlm. TG inggatkan kami berkumpul di lobi keesokkan harinya jam 8.00 pg.. Then zzzz  zzzzz












Sunday 21 April 2013

Bursa n Istanbul Aku Datang Part 5

Hari Ke-Tujuh (18 Mac)

Kringgg Kringgg wake up call. Terus bangun siapkan diri utk solat subuh. Mlm tadi aku dah packan semua brg dlm beg, mana yg nak masuk kargo mana yg hand luggage. So pg nii lps breakfast aku nak merayau di sekitar hotel. Semalam aku ternampak Fridge Magnet btk silipar kat satu kedai  Dimaklumkan 'Check Out' jam 10.30 pg. Berlepas ke Airport jam 11.00 pg. If tiada jammed yg teruk, dijanga sampai  di Airport jam 11.40 pg. Flight ke Kl jam 2.45 ptg. TL kata cukup masa utk urusan check in. Dijangka sampai KLIA jam 7.10 pg kesokkan harinya. After breakfast, aku pun rayau sambil snap gambar yg patut.


View dr bilik hotel sebaik sahaja bangun tidur


 View Trem kat Station tak jauh dr hotel


 View Masjid tak jauh dr Hotel

View Trem dr arah yg bertentangan

View Masjid dr dekat


Snap sana, Snap sini...tiba-tiba aku teringgat duit Lira aku dah habis kena cari Money Changer. If not tak lunchlah aku kat Airprt nanti. 

Tepat jam 11 pg kami bergerak ke Airport. Seperti yg dijangka urusan check in selesai dan kami ada masa utk solat n lunch sblm immigresan check. Kekawan pintu masuk ke Mas Airline paling jauh dr immigresen. So sesiapa yg first time sila awal sikit ke immigresen. Flight delas 15 minit. Kira oklah tu..,,Tepat jam 3 ptg kami berlepas pulang ke KLIA.., Selamt tinggal Turki, ada rezeki kami dtg lagi.,,,,,,,,

 View hotel kami tinggal di Istanbul


Wednesday 17 April 2013

Busra n Istanbul Aku Datang Part 4

Hari Ke-Lima (16 Mac 2012)

Tepat jam 6 am telefon berbunyi. Ahhh wake up call. Terus bangun n solat subuh. Than breakfast, tepat jam 8 am dah berada di lobi. Oh hari nii kami nak melawat Sulamaniyae Mosque, Istilal Avenue, Taksim Square n Grand Bazaar. Cuaca pg nii sungguh sejuk di tambah dgn hujan renyai2. Jam 8.10 am kami bergerak menuju destinasi pertama Sulaimaniyea Mosque, disebabkan jalan sempit kami terpaksa menapak agak jauh melalui lorong perumahan dlm cuaca yg cukup sejuk. Akhirnya kami sampai..,
View salah satu menara di ruang legar di depan pintu masjid

View ruang legarnya .. besar dan bersih

View ruang solat utama. Perasan tak secara kasarnya hampir sama je....dgn masjid lain tp sebenarnya tak sama dr segi seninya.

Info Süleymaniye Mosque
" The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the largest mosque in the city, and one of the best-known sights of Istanbul. The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman, "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History). The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1558. This "vast religious complex called the Süleymaniye...blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia (which the Ottomans converted into the mosque of Aya Sofya)" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History). The Süleymaniye, similar in magnificence to the preceding structures, asserts Suleyman's historical importance. The structure is nevertheless smaller in size than its older archetype, the Hagia Sophia. "

View kubah utama Masjid Sulaiman

View Part sisi Masjid

Then kami berpatah balik mengikut jalan datang ke bas utk menuju destinasi kedua iaitu 'Istilal Avenue'. Di sini suasananya mcm kaw Bukit Bintang KL. Byk kedai yg menjual brg-brg branded. Di sebab dah penghujung musim sejuk maka byk barang keperluan musim sejuk dijual dgn murah. I pun mengambil kesempatan membeli 'long suit winter kot' ...betul ke sebutan niii?. Hanya 75 TL shj.  murahkan....kat KL tak dpt harga niiii. Kami diberikan masa hampir 2  jam. Kat sini juga I membeli sedikit ole ole kuih / manisan Turki.  Jangan lupa kekawan, di sini kena ambil gambar Trem ditgh-tgh antara dua bangunan sebagai bukti dah sampai Istanbul.

View Trem di tengah-tengah 'Istilal Avenue'

Info
"Beyoğlu is a district located on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city (historic peninsula of Constantinople) by the Golden Horn. It was known as Pera (meaning "Across" in Greek) during the Middle Ages, and this name remained in common use until the early 20th century and the establishment of the Turkish Republic. According to the prevailing theory, the Turkish name of Pera, Beyoğlu, is a modification by folk etymology of the Venetian ambassadorial title of Bailo, whose palazzo was the most grandiose structure in this quarter. The informal Turkish-language title Bey Oğlu (literally Son of a Lord) was originally used by the Ottoman Turks to describe Lodovico Gritti, Istanbul-born son of Andrea Gritti, who was the Venetian Bailo in Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Bayezid II and later elected Doge of Venice in 1523.  The original palace building was replaced by the existing one in 1781, which later became the "Italian Embassy" following Italy's unification in 1861, and the "Italian Consulate" in 1923, when Ankara became the capital of the Republic of Turkey. The district encompasses other neighborhoods located north of the Golden Horn, including Galata (the medieval Genoese citadel from which Beyoğlu itself originated, which today is known as Karaköy), Tophane, Cihangir, Şişhane, Tepebaşı, Tarlabaşı, Dolapdere and Kasımpaşa, and is connected to the old city center across the Golden Horn through the Galata Bridge and Unkapanı Bridge."

View ......layan je lahhh

View Gerai menjual roti.......

View bergaya dgn baju baru.....ok tak mamat nii

Than kami menaiki bas utk mkn tgh di restoren tempatan. Menu mkn hampir sama tp kali TL minta kebab ayam panggang. Oklah sikit..,ada selera sikit nak mkn. Selepas tu kami bergerak pula ke Grand Bazaar. Saat yg ditunggu oleh peserta rombongan. Org Malaysia suka shoping, Kekedang yg dibeli tu ada kat Malaysia ataupun bila tengok label belakang made in China. Di sini semua ada, yg tak de mak dan abah saje. TIPS kena bargain sekitar sampai dia tak nak jual kat kita tp bersedia kena marah dlm bahasa turki. TIPS. T-shirt kanak kanak sekitar 8-9 TL. Key Chain 1-3 TL. Freeze Magnet 3.4 TL.  yg biasa org Malaysia beli. kalau U all berani beli kat luar bazaar lagi murah. Kami diberikan masa hampir 2 jam disini.

 View Pintu masuk ke Grand Bazaar

View kedai sebelah luar bangunan. Di sini harganya jauh lebih rendah.

Info Grand Bazaar
"The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 3,000 shops which attract between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. The Grand Bazaar is located inside the walled city of Istanbul, in the district of Fatih and in the neighbourhood (Turkish: Mahalle) bearing the same name. It stretches roughly from west to east between the mosques of Beyazit and of Nuruosmaniye. The Bazaar can easily be reached from Sultanahmet and Sirkeci by trams ( Line "T1", tram stop "Beyazıt-Kapalıçarşı").The construction of the future Grand Bazaar's core started during the winter of 1455/56, shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Sultan Mehmet II had an edifice erected devoted to the trading of textiles. In its name, Cevâhir Bedestan (English: Gems Bedesten; but also in Ottoman Turkish: Bezzâzistan-i- cedîd, meaning in English: New Bedesten) the word "Bedesten" is an alteration of the Persian.  It was also near the first Sultan's palace, the Old Palace (Turkish: Eski Sarayi), which was also in construction in those same years, and not far from the Artopoléia (Greek: Άρτοπωλεία) quarter, a location already occupied in Byzantine times by the bakers. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Grand Bazaar already had achieved its final shape. The enormous extent of the Ottoman Empire in three continents, and the total control of road communication between Asia and Europe, rendered the Bazaar and the surrounding Hans or caravanserais, the hub of the Mediterranean trade. According to several European travelers, at that time, and until the first half of the 19th century, the Market was unrivaled among the markets in Europe with regards to the abundance, variety and quality of the goods on sale. At that time we know from European travelers that the Grand Bazaar had a square plan, with two perpendicular main roads crossing in the middle and a third road running along the outer perimeter. In the Bazaar there were 67 roads (each bearing the name of the sellers of a particular good), several squares used for the daily prayers, 5 mosques, 7 fountains, 18 gates which were opened each day in the morning and closed in the evening (from these comes the modern name of the Market, "Closed Market"
According to a 1890 survey, in the Bazaar were active 4,399 shops, 2 Bedesten, 2195 rooms, 1 Hamam, one mosque, 10 Medrese, 19 fountains (among them two Şadırvan and one Sebil), one Mausoleum and 24 Han. In the 30.7 hectares of the complex, protected by 18 gates, there are 3,000 shops along 61 streets, the 2 Bedesten, 13 Han (plus several more outside).  The last major catastrophe happened in 1894, and was due to the strong earthquake which rocked Istanbul in that year. The Minister of Public Works, Mahmud Celaleddin Pașa, supervised the repair of the damaged Bazaar until 1898, and on this occasion the complex was reduced in area. To the west, the Bit Pazarı was left outside the new perimeter and became an open-sky road, named Çadircilar Caddesi (English: Tentmaker Road), while the old gate and the Kütkculer Kapi were demolished. Among all the Hans which belonged to the Market, many were left outside, and only nine remained enclosed in the structure."

Tepat jam 5.30 ptg kami bergerak ke hotel. TG inggatkan kami besok jam 9.00 pg gerak keluar hotel ke Bosphorus Cruise, Drpd 24 org hanya 4 org tak nak pergi. Ini Optional Tour harganya 60 USD, TL tak boleh paksa semua org pergi sapa yang nak saja. Tp bagi I, eloklah pergi kerana tak mungkin kita dapat peluang kedua kali ke Turki. Kalau gipun free bolehlah difikirkan. Sampai Iqbal Deluxe Hotel terus bersihkan diri dan ZZzzzzzzzzz.



Hari Ke-Enam (17 mac 2012)

Ringgg  Ringgg  Ringgg ahhh.. bunyi  telefon utk 'wake up call'. Dah pukul 6.00 pagi. Jam 9.00 pg kami berkumpul di lobby utk Tour Free n Easy. TL kami telah berbincang dgn TG dan beliau sudi menemani kami hari ini dan bas disediakan.. Sepatutnya kami bergerak sendiri. Jam 10.00 pg kami sampai di jeti utk naik bot.. Bosphorus Cruise.

 View Bot yang akan membawa kami merentasi Selat Bosphorus. Besar dan selesa.

View Bot bergerak meninggalkan jeti

View Di Jet Berlepas. Sorry agak gelap gambar kerana hari nak hujan

View salah satu jambatan merentasi Selat Marmara dan dibawahnya diadakan  pelbagai restoren.

View Salah satu masjid yg berada di tebing Selat Bosphorus

Info
"The Bosphorus or Bosporus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles strait to the southwest together form the Turkish Straits. The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, the Bosphorus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea.) The Bosphorus' limits are defined as the connecting line between the lighthouses Rumeli Feneri and Anadolu Feneri in the north and between the Ahırkapı Feneri and the Kadıköy İnciburnu Feneri in the south. This part of the strait is a dangerous point for maritime traffic: a 45-degree course alteration is required, and the current can reach 7–8 knots. To the south, at Yenikoy, the necessary course alteration is 80 degrees. All the dangers and obstacles characteristic of narrow waterways are present and acute in this critical sea lane. At the above mentioned turns (Kandilli and Yenikoy) where significant course alterations have to be made, the rear and forward sights are totally blocked prior to and during the course alteration. Ships approaching from the opposite direction cannot be seen round these bends. The risks posed by geography are increased dramatically by the heavy ferry traffic across the strait, linking the European and Asian sides of the city.The deepest location is between Kandilli and Bebek with 110 m (360 ft). The most shallow locations are off Kadıköy İnciburnu on the northward route with 18 m (59 ft) and off Aşiyan Point on the southward route with 13 m (43 ft). The shores of the strait are heavily populated, straddled as it is by the city of Istanbul (with a metropolitan area in excess of 12 million inhabitants) which extends inland from both coasts. The name comes from Greek Bosporos which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous + poros 'means of passing a river, ford, ferry', thus meaning 'ox-ford', which is a reference to Io (mythology) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus. Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high-density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus (caused by the difference in density of the two seas), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land. "

View ketika berselisih dgn bot lain

View antara Hotel Termahal yg ada di Selat

View Di bawah panji Turki di hadapan bot tingkat atas

View bahagian bawah bot yang ada heater utk memanaskan badan dan juga ada cafe utk kopi.

View.........Berapa agaknya apartment tu???

View .....Di pertengahan jalan

View lagi ..........

View hotel lagi.......luxurious, famous, style n rich.....

View lagi......Kapal besar pun boleh melalui selat nii

View kapal lagi

View belakang bot dan nampak jambatan lagi.....

View dgn burung camar sedang terbang..Cantikan

View lagi....

View aktiviti memancing ikan dlm berkumpulan.

View Kubu Kota Konstantinople yg masih utuh lagi

Selepas 45 minit kami sampai ke destinasi penghujung (Sokatahayat). Kuasa yg maha Agung Salji turun dengan lebatnya. Kami semua kesejukkan. Salji turun tak lama dalam 20 minit sahaja.

View pintu gerbang menyambut kami masuk ke kawasan kampung

View di tepi Jeti Ketibaan

View..jangan tanya apa dia


View di jeti ketibaan. Nampak tak salji memutih yg turun tu....

View yg nii jelas nampak salji tu..

View burung merpati di Jeti Ketibaan. Tak sejuk ke burung nii....

View....suka gambar niiii

View meninggalkan Jeti bergerak ke kawasan kampung.


View banyak kedai cenderamata di kawasan nii

View tempat tunggu bas

Kemudian dgn bas kami ke sebuah Pusat Membeli Belah Lima Bintang. Kami mencari restoren utk makan tengah hari. Kebanyakkan kami tidak membeli apa pun di sini...Mahal beb...

View Shopping Complex yg kami pergi

View Part bawah shopping complex tu. Ruang terbuka... Sejuk oii...

View makanan tengah hari. Nasi 24 TL (48 RM) n Air Mineral 5 TL (10 RM). Ok jelah... Nak buat camne...tempat orang. 

Kemudian kami bergerak ke Spice Market tapi balik ke hotel sendiri dgn TREM. Hanya 8 org sahaja yg nak balik terus hotel. TG mengajar TL cara nak balik ke hotel dengan menggunakan TREM. Tiket hanya 3 TL tak kira berapa stesen nak turun.

View Spice Market di sisinya penuh dgn kedai menjual kacang.

 View Part sisi masjid dekat Spice Market

View Kubah masjid di Spice Market

View Tangga ke pintu utama Masjid

Kami menghabiskan masa 3 jam di sini. Kami berkumpul di tangga Masjid dekat dgn Spice Market sebelum manaiki Trem balik ke hotel. TL inggatkan kami besok 'check out' hotel jam 10.30 pagi ke Airport. Nak Balik ke Malaysia.....Wah! cepatnya masa berlalu. Sampai ke bilik buka tingkap dan termenung. Cuaca agak baik petang nii... maklumlah dah hujan pada pagi. Dr tingkap hotel dapat tengok 'sunset' menerangi selat Marmara. Syukur anugerah Yang Esa dapat tengok sunset di Bumi Turki sebelum balik ke Malaysia. Zzzzz  Zzzzzz

View Sunset dr tingkap hotel

View Sunset lagi

Jumpa lagi Part Akhir .........Salam Istanbul