Perth 2013 part 2

Holla! Makin rajin pulak update blog sekarang ni hahaa. Soooo, mukadimah sikit sebelum move on to perth punya post. Aku dapat 4 interviews just in one week! Can you imagine that? Haha. Sebelum ni sedih2 bagai laa orang tanak panggil interview. Padahal baru sebulan jobless haha. Doakan aku murah rezeki senang dapat kerja, ok? Most importantly, aku dapat kerja yang sesuai dengan aku. Amin! Doakan semua :)

So sambung dengan cerita Perth. Our next stop kali ni, Pinnacles Desert located dekat area Cervantes. Sebab kami dah sewa kereta so better lah kan cari tempat jauh2 sikit nak melancong. And the most useful thing ever masa kat situ, gps. Sangat lah berguna gps tu. Kalau tak ada gps, kompem dah sesat barat dah aku rasa. We just typed in Pinnacles Desert then tadaaa, terus jumpa. Perjalanan ke sana memakan masa lebih kurang 2 jam plus minus. Tapi tu laa, disebabkan kami terpaksa mengikut had laju, so memang agak memanjangkan lagi gak la masa perjalanan kami.

Got off very early in the morning, stuffed ourselves up with free breakfast at the hotel, and we're ready to go! Morning in perth can get quite cold actually. Pedih2 muka tahan angin sejuk haha. Kami naik kereta toyota which I don't really remember toyota apa nama nya. Oh, kalau nak naik kereta kat Australia, make sure your seat belt is buckled up all the time. Sebab nya, peraturan la kira untuk sentiasa bertali pinggang keledar. Walaupun honestly, kadang2 tu aku tak pakai laa haha. Menggunakan gps, masuk je pinnacles desert then off you go. Kami ikut India Ocean Drive untuk ke sana. Pinnacles desert ke arah utara perth.

Dari perth sampai masuk Indian Ocean Drive, a highway kat sana, aku habiskan dengan kroohh kroohh. Jetlag laa kononnya wakakakk. Asyik tidooo je kalau naik kereta. Tapi dalam separuh jalan aku bangun dah. Kena la menikmati pemandangan kanss. Rugi pulak pergi negara orang tibai tido je haha.

For your info, highway kat Western Australia ni semua nya free without tol. Tapi belah2 lain kat Australia ni aku tak sure. Sebab hanya dimaklumkan kat WA je yang free. It feels like half highway jugak actually sebab nya, kadang tu tiba2 je ada lampu isyarat. Motif? Aku tak tau hahaaha. Tapi pemandangan cantik, nyamaaan sangat. Kalau bukak je tingkap, gigil2 tahan sejuk haha.

Sepanjang jalan dihiasi dengan pokok2 yang memang tak pernah jumpa kat Malaysia. And yang paling awesome, the green scenery. Just pictures tak cukup untuk tunjuk betapa cantik nya alam ciptaan Allah :)

Also dihiasi dengan puluhan biri2 dengan lembu kat kiri kanan jalan. Oh for those who don't know, you can just click on the picture untuk tumbesaran gambar yang melampau. hihi.

Dalam sejam lebih perjalanan, kami berhenti kejap kat tepi jalan sebab nak tukar driver. Sumpah nyaman rasa bila berhenti. And it was very breezy. Aku dok gatai keluar tak pakai sweater. Gilo ke ape haha

Tapi bila tengok the bushes yang banyak kat kiri kanan jalan, you just don't feel like staying at the side of the road lama2 jugak laa. Sebab nya, kalau jenis yang selalu tengok national geographic, agak paranoid tengok bushes macam tu. Lagi2 kat negara orang. There might be unexpected creature crawling out of the bushes or the rocks yang kau tanak tengok haha. I once saw a huge spider crawling on the road masa kat caversham haritu. So huge that it creeps me out. 

Dan antara yang sangat awesome, bila drive suddenly nampak Indian Ocean dari jauh. At first, kami rasa macam, ya Allah scary nya! Bila drive rasa macam akan drive terus sampai masuk laut. Akak aku dah cuak kot masa tu haha. Ye la, takut jugak kot2 sebenar nya depan tu macam tebing ke apa kan. Tapi rupanya, what was waiting for us are these beautiful sceneries :)

So finally lepas jauh jugak laa perjalanan, we arrived kat Pinnacles Desert

What I can say about the Pinnacles Desert? Actually, awesomeee. Tiba2 je ada padang pasir kat tengah2 tanah subur kehijauan. Dah la tepi laut pulak tu. Tapi yang kelakarnya, my dad wasn't really amused by the rocks. Dia kata macam, pergi jauh2 macam ni nak tengok batu je? Sumpah I didn't understand him -.-

Tapi tak kisah lah. Despite of my dad punya rumbling bagai, we did enjoying ourselves at the desert. Cantik subhanallah! Yang best nya, sebab pergi time winter, tak rasa bahang langsung. Ok this maybe explains why we get a little tanned after came back from there. Dah nya kat sana suka sangat berjemur bawah matahari akibat sejuk sangat. Hahaha. 

Well some people did questioned us, kenapa nak pergi time winter? With all the wetness and coldness. Tapi I can assure you, I don't feel any regret pun pergi time winter. In fact, aku enjoy winter australia. Aku tak tau rasa macam nyaman je masa winter. It's not like you will experience that kind of coldness everyday kan? Hee. Spring and autumn are superb, but I have been to other countries on both of the seasons so why not we try winter pulak? Ni belum pergi ke London, yang summer tak macam summer. Sejuk je memanjang haha.

Bebel punya bebel better lah layan gambar2 kat pinnacles. 

The above picture, well there is a story that lies behind that picture. This picture was taken buy an Australian guy that offered himself to take our picture. What so weird about that? Well this is how it goes weird.

Masa tu sebenarnya kami berhenti kat area berbukit ni. Kami rasa cantik, but we didn't feel like going outside and take pictures. So akak aku just amek gamba focusing on the the hills. The picture that was taken is the below picture

Well if you look closely, very closely, there were actually 2 guys on the sand hills. Ce fokus tengok. Cuba jangan tak cuba haha. Ok laa aku bagi gambar yang lagi focused.

Tak kisah lah mamat australia tu. Selesai amek gambar, kami pun blah malas nak lama2. Then kami singgah kat tempat ala2 perhentian laa kat kawasan desert tu. Singgah nak camwhoring kejap kehkehkeh. Amek2 gambar suddenly kami perasan yang mamat2 australia tadi ada kat sebelah kami. Macam pandang2 je kami. Then tiba2 je, sorang dari mereka offer nak amekkan gambar untuk kami. And we was like, err okay. Amekkan laa lagi elok haha.

So lepas dah amek gamba kami termasuk mak kami tu, mamat tu macam was expecting something. Awkward moment kejap. Kami just kenot brain apa yang mamat tu nak sampaikan masa tu. Lepas dah cakap thank you dalam awkward moment, baru kami perasan, rasanya mamat2 tu expect kami nak tangkap dengan depa kotttt. Itu pasal mereka macam menunggu je kami mintak amek gamba sesama. Hahahaa. Alahai sorry laa abam2 aussie. Aku pun sikit menyesal tak amek gamba dengan depa. Kalau tak boleh berlagak sikit wahahaaa.

So our next stop is the Lobster Shack. Setakat yang aku baca blog2 selama ni, tak ramai laa yang menyinggah kat Lobster Shack ni. Kami dapat idea nak singgah pun sebabnya kat tour yang supposedly kami pergi, ada ke sini. So kami pikir, why not kita pergi je? Since semua seafood kans? Cuma kami pergi dengan bismillahitawakal je laa moga2 seafood platter yang kami pesan tak mengandungi apa2 yang tak halal.

Tempat tak jauh sangat dari pinnacles desert. Tempatnya dalam area2 pekan cervantes. Wasn't that difficult to find. Kat Lobster Shack ni, you can find a humongous lobster sumpah bapak sedap rasa dia hahaa. Total money that was burnt kat sini around 90AUD tak silap. Of course lah, we split the amount into 5. Since 5 orang yang makan kan. So layankan laa gambar2 kami makan kat sini :D

Lepas dah settle makan2 semua, initially kami plan nak pergi sand boarding. Ala2 snowboarding but just with sand lah. Tapi risau kan masa suntuk nak kejar untuk pulangkan kereta, plan terpaksa dibatalkan. Nak buek cemano kan. We did had a great fun the whole hee. So terus laa kami shoot ke perth city on the same day jugak. Oh just for your info, mereka kata sunset kat pinnacles desert tu tersangatlah cantik sebenarnya. Tapi memandangkan kami tak planning nak bermalam kat sana dan kami mengejar waktu so kami tak stay sampai malam. So siapa2 who happened to read this blog and has the intention to go there, boleh laa try stay sampai malam.

Till next post peeps!

Perth 2013

Hello everybody! Sangat awkward ok nak tulis blog. Since I have abandoned this blog agak laa lama. I didn't update it frequently like I used to before.

Already done with my internship. Rezeki tiada di Petronas-ICT, so sekarang ni jadi penanam anggur yang berjaya. Aktiviti sekarang sedang berusaha mencari sumber yang halal. Cewahhh ayat haha. Just came back from Perth very recently. First time going on trip sendiri planning. Not really, just half of it. Sebab nya kami amek free and easy Apple punya pakej. But still, memang banyak planning sendiri laa.

Banyak laa baca2 blog nak amek tau lebih sikit pasal Perth. Tempat2 menarik semua. Oh, aku amek Airasia haritu. First time naik Airasia. Sebelum ni naik MAS dengan Turkish Airline je pernah. Just few months before departure date baru kami start semua2.

Nak pergi tak susah mana. You just need to apply for visa and passport valid more than six months at arriving time. Aku malas nak cerita panjang lah pasal budget ke apa ke. You can just google. Banyak sangat blog dah cerita pasal perth, well since perth memang one of the popular destinations for Malaysians. There are several types of food that you can't bring when arriving to Australia. Sebab nya Australia macam nak preserve laa hidupan2 berharga kat negara diorang. Something like that, am not sure -_-

Gambar before departing. On that night, supposedly dijangka ada meteor shower. Expecting to see some meteor showers when on board but saw none. Malang sekali hahaha.

Flight pergi perth dalam around 5 jam. As usual, flight malam aku memang susaaah sangat nak tido. I don't even know why. Walhal flight siang siap boleh kroohh kroohh lagi hahaa. 5 hours doesn't feel that long compare masa pergi Istanbul dulu. 10 jam nyahhh. So it wasn't that bad. Hanya malam tu aku mampu tido dalam sejam je lah kan

Sampai je, semua bergegas untuk solat subuh kat silent room. Memandangkan aku cuti time tu, aku lah tukang jaga beg bagai. Dengan mengantuk tahap apetah. Met someone from there, a chinese guy tak tahu apa nama from Valentino Holidays, yang tolong hantar kami pergi ke hotel. That morning was cold! Though hanya la around 10 degrees lah suhunya. Supposed to be feel not really cold lah tapi perth ni jenis berangin. Sekali angin bertiup, sejuk fufufu.

Part ni la yang kami suka betoi bila pergi sendiri. Kalau ikut pakej, sampai2 je dah bawak pergi sana laa, sini laa. Takda masa nak rehat langsung. Laa ni kami sampai, breakfast kat hotel dulu, then dah dapat bilik, sempat tido kat hotel dalam sejam dua muahahaa. Plan kami untuk hari tu hanya laa sekadar nak pergi Caversham Wildlife park and singgah kat Swan River Chocolate factory. Kami sewa kereta dari Hertz and planning untuk amek dalam pukul 10 macam tu. For those who don't know, kat Australia, we Malaysian can drive, well if we have a valid driving license. Cuma kena patuhi peraturan jalan raya mereka lah. Don't ever exceed the limit speed or else, 300AUD or RM1000 plus minus boleh melayang macam tu je.

We paid in around 300 AUD untuk sewa kereta 2 hari termasuk minyak full tank. Is that okay? Entah macam mahal je untuk aku. Tapi tak apa lah. Driving around perth city, was really, em, how should I say, membengangkan? I don't know probably sebab kami tak biasa kot mula2. Serabut jugak sebab lampu isyarat asyik2 merah. And ramaaai sangat pejalan kaki. And we still need to control our speed. Dah laa ada certain roads yang tutup lagi menyakitkan kepala even kami guna GPS. Tapi hanya dalam bandar sajalah.

Perth when we was there masa tu tengah winter. Winter time, they got no snow at all. They only got rain and more rain and more raaaain. Still, even dengan hujan macam tu, ramaaaai rakyat Malaysia yang datang. Definitely not raining all the time lah. Diorang punya weather more like kejap panas then tiba2 hujan then tiba2 mendung, then panas balik. The weather is crazehhh, definitely. But no storm. Never met a storm when I was there. Angin? Yes, it can get quite strong sometimes. Sometimes je lah. But it's quite nice actually. Cuma the city is wet like, all the time. Luckily we're not really in the city everyday. Kami banyak travel ke luar bandar.

Fetch our parents, lepas tu shoot ke Caversham Wildlife Park. Kami kena properly manage the time sebab nya, kat situ cepat sikit malam nya. Even perth berkongsi masa yang sama dengan malaysia. Waktu zohor awal, maghrib awal. Dalam pukul 6 macam tu dah start gelap. So planning masa sangat lah penting. Caversham Wildlife park is quite far actually. Those without a transport, probably will have quite a problem to get there. 

Aku tido sepanjang jalan. Sebab nya? Mengantok oii! Flight malam is seriously killing. Sumpah tak sukaaa. The only thing yang aku suka flight malam, is that when I look outside of the plane, I can see like thousands of stars, twinkling everywhere at the sky. Which is sangat lah awesome. Lain2? Not really. 

Got to caversham, terserempak dengan ramai pengunjung malaysian. They are like everywhere. Not that I dislike that lah haha. Nak masuk caversham ni memang jauh ke dalam. Sebab maybe diorang nak preserve haiwan2 kat dalam tu kot. We got there around pukul 12.30 macam. We wasn't really aiming for any shows on that day. Ye la mereka banyak la tawarkan shows and everything. We just went there to have some leisure time and most importantly, kangaroo! Won't go any detail on what animals can be found there so here you go, some of the pictures!

Next stop is Swan Valley punya chocolate factory. Dalam 10 minit nak ke sana, according to the gps. Wasn't really that far. When we got there, I was actually quite disappointed with the factory. Probably I was expecting it to be some kind of huge factory, kot. Alaahh konon2 macam Charlie and the Chocolate Factory punya movie. Ok merepek. But wasn't really that disappointed sebab boleh munch on ceklat2. We asked first lah whether the chocolates contain alcohol or not. Some are and some not so we aimed for the non-alcohols. Didn't spend that much of time there since like, we got nothing to do there, other than munching free chocolates. And buying a bottle of chocolate milk, which is yes, I can say it's probably one of the delicious milks I have ever taste in my entire life, but didn't manage to capture a picture. Malas punya pasal. So here goes few pictures from the chocolate factory.

We end our day there. Body is aching dan kami perlukan tido so went back to hotel. Kami tinggal kat Criterion Hotel, which is I think probably is own by Chinese people because most them that work there are Chinese, Asian people to be exact because they just don't sound Australian.

One of our biggest problems there was probably masa nak park kereta. Unfortunately, Criterion Hotel takde tempat parking sendiri. And we were kind of feel like a fool sebab kami pergi parking dengan Wilson Parking which cost us like, tons. Mahal siot parking kat Wilson. Sumpah menyesal but what to do. End up paying around 40 dollar just for a day. It should be cheaper than that. Padahal around perth city banyak lagi tempat parking lagi murah. But whatever, benda dah lepas kan. Our day end there and that night, we slept like a baby! Lena gila. And tido awal gila haha. Just to prepare for our next day, which is Pinnacles desert and pergi Cervantes untuk ke Lobster Shack. Till next post guys!