India Trip (Part 3) - Jalan Jalan Delhi

Awal awal pagi lagi weols dosi booked a taxi with a driver who could speak English very well. Fair enough, he brought us everywhere (could not remember how much we paid him for the service but I think it was quite reasonable PLUS it's recommended by the hotel as well).

Tapi tu lah, hat yang hotel besar besar rekemen pun ado agenda tersendiri bawak pergi kedai karpet tuh..khabarnya diorang ni akan dapat komisyen kalau tourists beli belah kat sittew. At least t-shirt khabarnya!

Anyway, mak harap sangat hari tu weols dapat gi tengok Humayun's Tomb, India Gate, Jama Masjid, Qutab Minar & Lotus Temple. Tapi nampak gayanya sebab weols perabihkan masa dok melangut dengar cerita karpet, tak sempat gi Qutab Minar & Lotus Temple (walaupun Lotus Temple dekat bebenor dengan hotel weols).




Tu diah, nak masuk kubur raja pun nak katok pelancong asing lelebih! Set set kelly bayar 10 Ruppes jah..weols ni kena bayar 25 times more! Dasar cekik darah kapitalis!




The magnificient Humayun's Tomb. Built by Humayun's widow - Bega Begum berdasarkan ciri ciri Parsi.. also ala ala Garden of Heaven kaedahnya (katanya!). This tomb was described as the predecessor to Taj Mahal.

Humayun ni one of the Mughal Emperor rasanya........ kena exile ke hapo ke Afghanistan masa tu.




Pose pose dada depan India Gate - a World War I memorial place remembering 90,000 Indian soldiers who dies during the war fighting for British - patutlaa set set kelly sampai ke lening nak katok omputih... marah sebab kena guna kot????






India Gate area was full of ies, tourists and also school kids (lawatan sambil belajar lah ni kot hoh?). Beruk kera pun ado.... hat yang ni tuan dia siap dok dekat dekat weols nak soh weols tengok aksi aksi monyet dia lah tuh..kosser lah! Tak hingin!

Ni pun satu, nak beli air Pepsi dalam botol kat kawasan ni pun haiyooo hampir hampir kena katok dengan penjual bangsat dia. Si penjual tu nak soh weols bayar 60 Rupees for each bottle...tapi Avang hui harga dia not more than 25 Rupees pun. So, memang Avang berkeras kata "25 Rupees each!!!". Mrasa!




Kompleks perkarangan Secretariat Buildings. This whole area was built by the British during the colonial times. patutlaa nampak kemas je...kalau hat yang diorang buat bina sendiri, jangan harap..mesti entah apa apa ntah!





Jama Masjid yang besar dan luas ittew.. did not feel quite safe at all here dahlah selipar weols, weols tinggalkan kat luar tuh. Memanglah ada orang jaga tapi cara diorang berinteraksi ngan weols punyerlaaa macam penyangak. takde tata susila langsung. Patutnya tempat inneiw tempat welcoming everyone. Barulah nampak kemanisan islam ittew tapi non-ado!

Last last dahlah kena bayar 200 Rupees kalau nak ambik gambar kat dalam masjid (bangsat sangat..kat masjid pun nak cekik darah!). Bila mak bagi kat dia 500 Rupees, dia bagi baki 2 x 200 Rupees notes and 2 x 1 US Dollar!!! Whaddafak???? What the hell am I supposed to do with BLOODY AMERICAN DOLLARS???????



Aiyyoohh sempat budak kecik nih enterframe lah pulak! The red building is the one right infront of the Jama Masjid.




The very place where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated.. tempat ni pun dipanggil Gandhi Samadhi (nampak sangat bahasa kita guna Hindi kan..Samadhi.. Semadi...sama lah tu!).



Mahatma Gandhi Museum - nak masuk free pulak. Pelik betul... ingatkan nak katok semua pelancong kaedahnya hiks.... oh well, it's a nice museum regarding the life and the political struggle of a great man called Gandhi. Even kain hat yang dia pakai masa dia kena bunuh (siap dengan bekas bekas darah sekals) pun ditayangkan kat sittew.....

Lepas ittew, ingatkan nak juga gi Qutb Minar or Lotus Temple (penganut agama Baha'i punyer kuil).. tapi Avang pulak keletihan dan tak berapa sedap badan..so weols bagitahulah taxi driver merangkap tourist guide weols nih soh bawak weols balik semula ke hotel.

Perlu ke dia berulangkali nak ajak weols gi sebuah lagi "emporium" or "mall" ke hapa katanya elok untuk ambik gambar... errr we're not stupid. kau pergi emporium beli belah bukan nak hambek gambar lah, labi! Ni sah sah nak soh weols dok melangut dengar cara diorang buat karpet lagi nih hah! Tak pun nak paksa weols dok dengar tukang kedai bercakap fasal batu marmar ke hapa.. hanjss siyal sangat!

Memang weols berkeras kat drebar teksi tuh soh bawak weols balik ke hotel!

Ittew yang menyakitkan hati weols tu..dahlah bayar servis diorang tapi macam ada agenda lain pulak diorang nih (ala ala daging vavi dicelah kuey teow kata Hjh Esah).

Oh well.... part of the experience I suppose!

Next stop - Jaipur, Rajashtan!

India Trip (Part 2) - Kisah Penjual Karpet!

Right, so this was one of the most tiring and annoying experience we've had whilst in India. Admittedly we did not know this was coming...again and again, they tried endlessly to show you and persuaded you to buy their goods.

Hat yang ni actually pun drebar teksi Crowne Plaza Hotel ni yang bawak weols ke sinniew lepas bawak weols ronda ronda keliling Connaught Place, India Gate & Parliament area of Delhi.

Memula hengat emporium or a usual mall with lots of cheap stuff ke hapa ke..actually non-ado!!! Ni scam ke hapa ntah. Tourist guide ke drebar teksi ke, semuanya nak bawak tourist di bawah tanggungjawab theyols ke tempat tempat cenggini.

Masalahnya kalau weols kaya raya, mungkinlah kot..nak beli karpet lah, marmar lah... tapi weols ni tourist jah. Mentang mentang Avang tuh kulit putih, tryss theyols hengat dia kaya raya. Bengap ko hapo???




Inniewlah tuan punyer kedai karpet Kashmir ittew... admittedly the carpets are of high quality and great value BUt to buy and to bring them home??? Even the smalles ones..we're not bloody interested to buy!




Pandai memujuk rayu weols sambil menghidangkan sekuk keghing (biskut kering) and Indian herbal tea. Aikk...biskut kering jah???Lemang tadak kah??? **ops!




Tu diah..ntah berapa puluh karpet ntah diorang dosi hamparkan untuk weols. Demonstrasi inniew berlangsung selama 45 minit kot... giler punyer lama...tu belum gi lagi Qutab Minar, Lotus Temple, Jama Masjid etc etc.... haiyyoohhh fenin kapla nak membeli belah karpet pulak dah!!!!




Sampai terduduk pakcik nih dok mengdemonstrasi karpet karpet..kalu karpet Aladdin hat yang voley terbang tu takpa pulak, noh???

Last last lepas 45 minit berlalu, weols truss cakap berkali kali we're not interested in buying any bloody carpets for fuck sake!!! **oopss not like that lah..we did not say those F words, hiks...

Si penjual karpet ni pulak siap cakap "Don't break my heart sir" as soon as we said for the last time (after zillions of times) that we're not interested. Erkk hello, are you being thick or what??? Taknak beli..taknak beli lah woiii!!!



Last last, Avang resort to buy a shawl....

"Cepatlah bang oiii... nak gi sejid pulok nih"

"Mung takmboh selendang ke...nok beli nih..."

"Beli selendang buat mende... baik beli bikini!"
**larikkkkk.......

Gitulah kira kiranya pengalaman weols dok terpaksa melayan orang orang Kelly nih nak menjual bebarang theyols... macamlaaaaa weols ni cop duit!

Mamarazzi Delhi

Nanti mak update lagi yer noks??? Tapi kan masa weols kat Delhi tu tak sangka pulak ramai jugak omputih kat sittew..hat yang merembsss pun ramai.... aiyyoo rambang mata mak tawww!!!





Anak ikan dua ekoq nih mak snappy snappy masa kat dalam Mahatma Gandhi Museum (free entry pulak, voley??? Ingatkan selalu cekik darah!!!). Tak sempat nak snappy depan diorang...tak berani! Kang nampak obvious sangat pulak!




Yang ni berhadapan dengan India Gate (ala ala Arc de Triomphe kat paris tu lah). Dua orang ni comel sangat mak rasa theyols nih lovers kot sebab nampak sesuatuh! Yang pakai baju puutih tu kan, ala ala macam ada benda tersembul kat seluar dia (mobile phone kot?? Hiks..matilaa inesen!)

Tapi as usual, tak berani nak snappy depan depan theyols lagipun theyols jalan laju gak nih..nak kejar pun susah!



Haiii matilhakuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..depan masjid pun nak mamarazzi!!! Ni kat depan Masjid Jama (yang terbesar di India katanya).




Errkk mamarazzi kah??? Any takers of these two policemen??? Heheheheheheh.......

Gambar ni depan Secretariat Building.

Duiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.......

India Trip (Part 1) - Chalo Delhi!

Okey dah mak nak mula dah! Mrasa korang dok baca catatan perjalanan mak & Avang kat india baru baru ni nah? **matilaa korang muntah ijau kekgi!

So, mak dengan badan tak bermaya memulakan pagi sabtu pada seawal pukul 6.00am kot..dahlah malam tu dinch boleh tidur pun...sexcited kununnya nak gi India, leyy??? habislah pasnih..jetlag lagi kat India nanti!

Got on the train from Cambridge Station (took me about one hour to Kings Cross) and from there, took underground all the way to Heathrow Airport Termial 4..oh wait..no, I had to change at Hatton Cross rupanya..haiyyoo feliklah Underground London nih. Ingatkan Terminal 4 ni the main Terminal sebab British Airways punyer hub!***matilaa DQ!

Everything went smoothly and all I had to do was to go to the BA desk to just dropped in my baggage sebab mak dosi checked in online kaedahnya. Dunno what's the point though sebab masa dropped in bag tu pun ala ala checked in jah! Queue pun panjang jugok!***matilaa korang British yang feveret pastime ialah queueing!



My BA flight to DEL (Delhi) that will take me around 7.5 hours. Not bad considering I have had worst - Malaysia for 18 hours via Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific before!

Memang the flight was full and I must say, it's 50-50 lah orang kat dalam tu; 50% omputih and 50% Asians....



Alahai Economy Class ehh silap BA panggey World Traveller kununnya (nampak gah skett kot hoh?). I had window seat 9always loooove window seats, bleyy tengok pemandangan kat luar nuh!). makcik Punjabi yang dok sebelah mak tu memula mak hengat dia snobbish skett tapi alih alih dia jugak yang mula cakap ngan mak; baik orangnya!

For the first 10 or so minutes masa penerbangan ittew, memang begegar gilbabs pesawat jumbo weols..menakutkan sebab masa tu memang angin kuat melanda UK (skang ni pun hah while I am typing this entry, ribut & flooding risk in the UK especially in the South).






Menu makan tengahari mak - Halal food sebab mak dosi bagitahu BA yang mak nak makanan Muslim. kang diorang terbagi kat mak sweet and sour pork kang, tak ke mak pitam???? Siap ado logo Halal Food Authority tu hah...ingat Malaysia sahajork kah ado logo Halal?? :P

Seingat mak, yang mak dapat main menu ialah chicken tikka kot kalau tak silap. Sedaplah jugak...dessertnya ialah typical indian dessert with potato, pistachio and milk kot....



The snack just before we landed in DEL. Kat box tu pun siap ado history untuk pengetahuan umum tentang asal usul perkataan SANDWICH! Sila klik kat photo di atas untuk membacanya!

I had Cheese Sandwich.. sedaplah jugak...bolehlah....syukur gitu!




Tu diah..dah dekat dah nak sampai DEL. Lalu kot Afghanistan pulak tuh ***takot!!!!

Tapi sentapzlah jugak sebab dahlah non-ado stewards yang merembesss dalam flight ittew, hat yang stewardess pulak muka masang cetung macam dah lama tak dapat batang dalam fookey, leyy??? Hanjss sangat!

One more thing, they ran out of Landing card nak masuk India, voleyy???? Apa punyer service laaaa!!! Bangang! Tapi mak sempat nampak ada sorang bangsat mana ntah siap ambik berpuluh puluh landing card tu kat tangan dia nak bagi kat kengkawan dia kat dalam pesawat ittew... takkanlah kawan sampai berpuluh puluh kat dalam tu??? Bongok!

Sesampai mak kat DEL tu memanglah kan immigration dia punyerlaa lembab and no smiling faces pun..orang nak masuk negara dia nak berbelanja takde pun smile smile... macam bagus jah!

Anyway, Avang dosi tunggu mak kat luar airport (walaupun ada sedikit technical difficulties sebab dinch hui kat exit mana dia berada, at last jumpa jugak...)

He had a VER BAD experience masa nak guna toilet airport kat Indira Gandhi international airport ittew sampai tak jadi dia nak cikyak. Mak dosi cerita kan hari tu.... sapa tatau yang jadik tukang cuci jamban diorang nieh????



Mrasa nanti mak cerita lagi fasal touring around Delhi including this quite magnificient tomb - Humayun's Tomb (gambar kat atas ialah tomb kepada Hazrat Isa Ali Nazir ke hapa ntah...).

Goodbye India!

Hah dah mula daaaahhhh!!! Asik asiklaaa tu hah dok sebut NEHI NEHI NEHI ***mrasa veranganz ala ala Kareena Kapoor pulak hoh?? Hiks....

Incredible India katanya..memang Incredible pung..apa yang Incredible tu?? Nanti mak cerits...

In short - we both were glad to be there at last especially to see Taj Mahal (symbol of love katanya...) tapi adakah weols akan kembali ke sana lagi?? Tunggu naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Sebelum ittew, tengoklah pose pose weols pakai sari bagai nieh... chanteque tak weols??? :P



Cuba teka mak yang hat mana satu.... kann..mrasa pose ala ala tiga dara pingitan gituh!

p/s dah..mak ngantukz dan letih lepas flight hampir 9 jam ittew... duiiii!!!