Amman n Petra, Jordan - Part 1

Hari Pertama (5 Dis 2013)

Salam

Baru-baru ni dapat peluang dgn POTO TRAVEL ke Amman, Jordan and Baitulmaqdis selama 8 hari 6 mlm. Mulanya cuak juga nak pergi... coz nak melintasi border Israel. Tp kuatkan iman dan tabahkan hati.. Dah dapat peluang, redah je. Seawal jam 4.30 pg dah bangun. 5.30 pg dah naik ERL ke KLIA. Semua peserta diminta berkumpul di kaunter M di tingkat perlepasan KLIA. Tour Leader (TL) dan tunggu. Urusan ‘cheak in’ peserta di kaunter M di KLIA nampaknya berjalan dengan lancar. 6.00 pg semua peserta sudah berada di KLIA. Urusan bag dan taklimat dari Airport Duty Officer En Sam berjalan seperti yang dirancangkan. Seating Arrangement juga baik. Tepat jam 8.25 pg berlepas dari KLIA ke Muscat, Oman dengan Oman Airlines. Alangkah bahagianya... kapal terbang kosong.. mewah memilih kerusi nak duduk..

View Kapal Terbang Oman Airlines

Jam 11.42 pg waktu tempatan, selamat tiba di Muscat Airport. TL menguruskan peserta ke kaunter transfer. Kami hanya ada masa 1 jam 40 minit sahaja. TL sempat membawa kami ke surau utk solat jamak di Airport. Jam 12.45 berkumpul di kaunter 23 di Muscat Airport utk berlepas ke Amman, Jordan. Tepat jam 1.25 ptg berlepas ke Amman, Jordan dengan Oman airlines. Kali nii tak best, tak de tempat kosong..Zzzz

View Muscat International Airport.. Masih jauh ketinggalan jika dibandingkan dgn KLIA. Katanya Airport baru dalam pembinaan.

View Sebahagian decoration dlm airport Muscat

Jam 4.30 ptg waktu tempatan (beza 5 jam lewat dgn Malaysia) selamat tiba di Amman Airport. Telah ada pegawai dari ground telah menunggu untuk urusan imigresan dan bagasi. Lepas Immigresan dan ambil bagasi kami berjumpa dengan Tour Guide (TG) Mr Ateez. Dah tua gamaknya.. tp dia kata umurnya baru 56 thn... sah bohong kami kata dalam hati je. Kami nampak TL memberikan tips kpd pegawai tuuu. Sampai je di bas, sudah ada 2 org porter yang menunggu utk memasukkan bagasi dalam bas. Kami nampak lagi TL terpaksa memberikan tips kepada porter tersebut. Tepat jam 5.30 ptg meninggalkan Amman Airport menuju Petra untuk bermalam di Edom Hotel, Petra. Singgah di hentian rehat selepas 1 jam perjalanan. Di sini macam macam ada, tapi tok sah belilah ... mahal. Ramai yang beli secawan kopi (2 JD) di sini (1 JD = 5 RM). 

View Bahagian dlm restoren di Hentian Rehat

View Papan tanda ke Hotel di Petra

View Pintu hadapan Edom Hotel di Petra, Jordan

Tepat jam 7.00 mlm tiba di Edom Hotel di Perta. Sementara TL menguruskan bilik peserta, baru tersedar ada peserta (Cik Jamilah) telah kehilangan bagasi. Bila disoal, beliau pasti telah memasukkan bag dalam bas. TG berbincang dengan TL. Jika tiada bag besok. Report polis akan dibuat. Setelah semua dapat kunci bilik, TL memberikan taklimat tentang peraturan hotel dan kemudahan yang ada. WIFI ada tapi kena bayar. Pemanas air (cerek) tiada. Dinner dan breakfast di hotel TL juga menginggatkan kepada peserta wake up call 4.30 pg dan bergerak ke Kota Purba Petra jam 8.00 pg. zzzz  zzz

 Hari Kedua (6 Dis 2013)

Kami bersarapan di hotel sambil berbual. Semua peserta cakap tiada wake up call. Jam 8.25 pg semua peserta berkumpul di lobby. TG membawa kami ke Kota Purba Petra sambil bercerita. Berjalan dalam keadaan sejuk dengan jalan tak rata, sudah tentu menyukarkan peserta yang berumur. Perjalanan agak jauh iaitu 2.5 km pergi hingga ke Rom Theatre dan 2.5 km patah balik ke hotel. Sesiapa yg tak larat jalan.. boleh tunggang kuda, keldai atau naik kereta kuda.. tp bayar sendiri ya....

View Pintu masuk ke Kota Purba Petra, Jordan tak jauh dari hotel 750 m sahaja.

View Jalan jalan ..... baru 600 m dr pintu masuk

View Bagi yg tak larat.. tunggang kuda... 25 USD

View Keajaiban .. pokok hidup dicelah celah batu

View Hentian pertama Obelisk Tomb dan Bab as-Siq Triclinium

View Obelisk Tomb

View Obelisk Tomb

Kemudian kami meneruskan perjalanan.. jalan ... jalan kaki dalam suasana sejuk. Kami redah pula laluan sempit antara gunung. Permandangan yang menakjubkan.

View Menakjubkan....

View Tepi Tepi... kereta kuda nak lalu... sempit

View dah lupa pulak nama tempat nii....

View Ada rupa ikan tak....

View Peniaga tepi jalan...

View Wah... dah nampak .... Al-Khazneh (Treasury)

View Al-Khazneh salah satu trademark Kota Purba Petra

View Mamat bergaya nii... bukti i dah sampai sini

View Rombongan Cik Kiah...

Kami meneruskan perjalanan lagi hingga ke Theatre... 500 m je lagi.. Huh dah pancit.. Terbayang nak patah balik nanti.

View The Outer Siq

View Street of Facades

View Lubang-lubang nii bukan rumah.. tapi kubur lama.

View Nii dia Theatre...Last journey.. Than patah balik..

Disebabkan ramai peserta berusia, perjalanan agak lambat. Jam 10.45 sampai di hotel. Jam 11.30 bergerak ke restoren tempatan utk mkn tengahari. Kita keluar awal kerana nak elak kesesakkan jalan raya. Hari nii hari jumaat. Lepas makan kami singgah pula singgah di Musa Spring (tiada dlm iteanery). Menarik juga. 

 

View Bangunan yg menempatkan Musa Springs

View Nii airnya jernih.. ramai peserta ambil kesempatan cuci muka dan sebagainya.

 

View Wadi Musa..

Kemudian bergerak ke Amman dgn bas. Berhenti di satu Masjid utk solat. Meneruskan perjalanan dan singgah di Airport Police Station utk mengambil bag bagasi peserta. Alhamdulillah bagasi dijumpai semula. Meneruskan perjalanan ke kedai yang menjual barangan laut mati dan souvenir (Tiada dalam iteanery). 

View Pelbagai barang dijual.

Jam 7.00 mlm sampai hotel. TL mengurusan check in bilik. TL memberitahu dinner and breakfast di hotel dan juga mewarwarkan kemudahan hotel. Yang penting WIFI free. TL juga memberikan sedikit taklimat tentang perjalan ke Israel keesokkannya. Bagasi besar akan tinggal dalam hotel, peserta hanya membawa hand luggage je. Jam 8.00 mlm semua peserta turun mkn mlm. Wake up call jam 5.00 pg. Bergerak keluar hotel jam 8.30 pg. zzzzzzzzz

Sydney n Melbourne - Australia Part 4

Hari Ke Lima (23 Okt 2013)


Salam
Hari nii .. hari terakhir di Melbourne... Wah cepatnya masa berlalu. Tepat jam 10.00 pg bas datang. Kami buat 'City Tour'. TL cakap, kami keluar hotel lambat kerana peraturan australia, driver bas tidak boleh bekerja lebih 12 jam. Mengikut Iteanery kami dijangka balik lewat kerana 'Penguin Parade' bermula selepas matahari terbenam di Philip Island. Mula mula kami ke 'Parliament House'. Bangunan lama. bersebelahan dgn 'Treasury Building'.

View Jalan sorang sorang nak ambil gambar Trem nii. Hujan renyai renyai.. Banyak masa sebab bas datang jam 10.00 pagi.

View Parliament House

 

Info  

'Parliament House in Melbourne, located at Spring Street in East Melbourne at the edge of the Melbourne city centre, has been the seat of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, since 1855 (except for the years 1901 to 1927, when it was the seat of the Federal Parliament of Australia).

In 1851, even before the colony of Victoria acquired full parliamentary self-government, Governor Charles La Trobe instructed the colonial surveyor, Robert Hoddle, to select a site for the colony's new parliament to meet. Hoddle selected a site on the eastern hill at the top of Bourke Street, which at that time, when few buildings were more than two storeys high, commanded a view of the whole city. 

In December 1855 construction began on the site in Spring Street, and the building was completed in stages between 1856 and 1929. The chambers for the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council were finished in 1856, at which time Bourke Street ran between the two chambers. The library was completed in 1860, and the Great Hall (now Queen's Hall) and the vestibule in 1879. In the 1880s, at the height of the great boom fuelled by the Victorian Gold Rush, it was decided to add a classical colonnade and portico facing Spring St, which today gives the building its monumental character. This was completed in 1892. The north wing was completed in 1893 and refreshment rooms at the back of the building were added in 1929.

Despite its protracted construction and evolution of the design, the building today feels very much a single entity. The flow of the rooms, particularly taken in context with the main facade leading to the Queen's Hall and the parliamentary chambers, is both logical and visually impressive.'

View Mamat nii depan Hotel Winsor.. Depan Parliament House

View Treasury Building bersebelahan Parliament House

Kemudian kami ke  'Federation Square'. Ala bangunan yg bersegi segi tu. Menarik juga bangunan nii..

View Bahagian hadapan 'Federation Square'

 

View Pintu masuk Federation Square Building

Info 

Federation Square (also colloquially known as Fed Square) is a civic centre and cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was opened in 2002. It is a mixed-use development covering an area of 3.2 hectares and centred around two major public spaces: open squares (St. Paul's Court and The Square) and one covered (The Atrium), built on top of a concrete deck above busy railway lines. It is located at intersection between Flinders Street and Swanston Street/St Kilda Road in Melbourne'sCentral Business District, adjacent to Melbourne's busiest railway station.

Melbourne's first public square, an initiative of the Melbourne City Council was the City Square which dates back to 1968 was considered by many to be a planning failure. Its redevelopment in the 1990s failed to address serious flaws in its design as a public space and it was during this decade that the first plans for a new square were hatched by the Victorian state government

The site selected was immediately south of the Hoddle Grid and included the twin towers of the former Gas and Fuel Corporation,Jolimont Yard and the Princes Bridge railway station (which was itself the former site of a 19th-century morgue). The government sought to remove what were considered to be two of Melbourne's great eyesores, demolishing the 1960s Gas and Fuel Corporationbuildings which obstructed a vista of heritage buildings along Flinders Street including St Paul's Cathedral.

 

 

 Kemudian kami bergerak pula ke St Patrick's Cathedral... Gereja lama yang agak besar juga. Sebenarnya tak jauh dari Parliament House.
  

View Hadapan St Patrick Cathedral Church

 Info 

St Patrick's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, and seat of its archbishop, currently Denis Hart. The building is known internationally as a leading example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture.^{[citation needed]}

In 1974 Pope Paul VI conferred the title and dignity of minor basilica on it. In 1986Pope John Paul II visited the cathedral and addressed clergy during his Papal Visit.

The cathedral is built on a traditional east-west axis, with the altar at the eastern end, symbolising belief in the resurrection of Christ. The plan is in the style of aLatin cross, consisting of a nave with side aisles, transepts with side aisles, a sanctuary with seven chapels, and sacristies. Although its 103.6 metres (340 ft) length is marginally shorter than that of St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, St Patrick's has the distinction of being both the tallest and, overall, the largest church building in Australia.

The cathedral is located on Eastern Hill in Melbourne, in an area bounded by Albert Street, Gisborne Street, Lansdowne Street and Cathedral Place. Just to the east across Gisborne Street is St Peter's Church, constructed from 1846 to 1848, which is the Anglican parish church of Melbourne.

In 1848, the Augustinian friar James Goold was appointed the first bishop of Melbourne and became the fourth bishop in Australia, after Sydney, Hobart and Adelaide. Negotiations with the colonial government for the grant of five acres of land for a church in the Eastern Hill area began in 1848. On 1 April 1851, only 16 years after the foundation of Melbourne, the Colonial Secretary of Victoria finally granted the site to the Roman Catholic Church.

Kemudian kami ke Fitzroy Garden

Info 
The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne Central Business District in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, and Wellington Parade with the Treasury Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west.



For the last City Tour sebelum ke Philip Island, kami ke Shrine of Remembrance...

View Salah satu pandangan

 

 

View The Cenotaph.. Berbangga aku.. ada nampak Malaya Tak...

Info 

The Shrine of Remembrance, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia was built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I and is now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war. It is a site of annual observances of ANZAC Day (25 April) and Remembrance Day (11 November) and is one of the largest war memorials in Australia.

Designed by architects Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop who were both World War I veterans, the Shrine is in a classical style, being based on the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus and the Parthenon in Athens. Built from Tynong granite, the Shrine originally consisted only of the central sanctuary surrounded by the ambulatory. The sanctuary contains the marble Stone of Remembrance, upon which is engraved the words "Greater love hath no man". Once a year, on 11 November at 11 a.m. (Remembrance Day), a ray of sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof to light up the word "Love" in the inscription. Beneath the sanctuary lies the crypt, which contains a bronze statue of a soldier father and son, and panels listing every unit of the Australian Imperial Force.

In 2002-2003 a Visitor Centre was built within the foundations of the Shrine. The visitor centre incorporates an education centre (including three classrooms and meeting room), an audio-visual centre, gallery space, a retail shop and an administration office, as well the Hall of Columns (in which the Changi Flag is on display) Gallery of Medals, entry courtyard and Remembrance Garden. The walls of both the entry courtyard and Remembrance Garden have been built to complement the Ray of Light ceremony that takes place on 11 November of every year.

The Shrine went through a prolonged process of development which began in 1918 with the initial proposal to build a Victorian memorial. Two committees were formed, the second of which ran a competition for the memorial's design. The winner was announced in 1922. However, opposition to the proposal (led by Keith Murdoch and The Herald) forced the governments of the day to rethink the design, and a number of alternatives were proposed, the most significant of which was the ANZAC Square and cenotaph proposal of 1926. In response, General Sir John Monash used the 1927 ANZAC Day march to garner support for the Shrine, and finally won the support of the Victorian government later that year. The foundation stone was laid on 11 November 1927, and the Shrine was officially dedicated on 11 November 1933

City Tour semua tempat  yg dicadangkan dalam iteanery dapat pergi dan berpeluang ambil gambar. Peserta puas hati. Tepat 11.30 pg  kami bergerak ke Panny’s Chocolate Factory. Korang nak tau.. Tuan punya kilang nii ialah India Penang mari...

View Papan tanda...wajib ambil gambar kat sini

View Hadapan kilang nii.. ada patung dua ekor lembu... India owner beb....

View Pintu masuk ke restoren dan kilang.

Jam 1.15 ptg kami makan tgh disini. Jangan risau.. di sini semuanya halal (ada sijil halal Australia). Lepas tu kami masuk ke dalam melihat pemprosesan coklat. Ada banyak games dan boleh kumpulkan bola kayu utk ditukarkan dengan coklat. Tapi kena ingat sorang hanya boleh tukar 6 biji coklat bersaiz bola ping pong. So tak yak beli coklat.. Yang lagi menarik ialah pelbagai bentuk coklat ada di sini.. kekadang tak tercapai akalmu.. Di akhir lawatan, TL juga berbincang dengan owner utk mendapatkan tempat / ruang utk sembahyang. Kami dibenarkan menggunakan ruang rehat pekerja di tingkat 2.   

View restoren

 

View Permainan dan kumpullah bola tu... nanti tukar dengan coklat

View Pelbagai coklat...cara pemprosesan coklat

View Coklat...tergamak ke korang nak makan... agak agaknya mana part paling sedap

 

View Biji koko tapi bukan dari Australia.. Kebanyakkannya import dari Afrika

 

View Kasut dari coklat.. sanggupkah memakannya.

 Tepat jam 3 ptg pula kami sampai di Maze n Things. Semua peserta enjoy dengan aktiviti yg ditawarkan. 

View Pintu masuk ke Maze n Things.

 

View Apasal mamat nii nampak kurus.. He  hee trick...

View Tolong! Tolong ! Langsuyar putih nak cekik aku...

View Nak beli...Mahal... tak beli pun

View Jangan makan aku...

View kalau berani boleh cuba. Jangan nanggis kalau tak boleh keluar.....

Jam 5.45 ptg kami bergerak ke tempat Philip Island nak tengok Penguin Parade. Kami mempunyai masa yg cukup utk melawat kawasan dan membeli sedikit barang di kedai sourvenir. Jam 6.30 ptg kami makan mlm di restoren di sini.

View Papan tanda....

View Laluan pejalan kaki..

 

View Antara binatang yang boleh dijumpai sepanjang laluan pejalan kaki...

View Antara Pantai tempat penguin mendarat...nak ke pantai

View Mamat nii boring... lambat lagi penguin nak naik

 

View Nampak tak pentas.. tu laa tempat nak duduk nanti tengok penguin parade

Jam 7.20 mlm kami bergerak masuk ke stage utk melihat penguin Parade. Jam 9.20 mlm kami bergerak balik ke hotel di Melbourne. Sampai di hotel jam 11.10 mlm. TL ingatkan peserta tentang ’wake up call’ jam 4.30 pg dan check out jam 6.50 pg. Kami ambil pack breakfast. Kena gerak awal kerana pengalaman group yg lepas, immigresan international di Melbourne sangat ramai. 

 Hari Ke Enam (24 Okt 2013)

Jam 6.50 pg kami meninggalkan Hotel untuk ke Airport. Alhamdulillah semua selesai dalam masa 1 jam sahaja. Kami mempunyai masa yang mencukupi untuk shopping di Airport. Tepat 10.50 kami meninggalkan Melbourne.

Tepat jam 2.30 kami tiba di airport Jakarta. Kami mempunyai masa hampir 3 jam di Jakarta Airport. Jam 5.15 ptg kami bergerak ke KLIA.

Jam 8.25 kami tiba di KLIA. Semua urusan sehingga mengambil bagasi selesai. Tepat jam 9.30 mlm kami bersurai. 
Terima kasih POTO TRAVEL.........