Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Vacation @ Australia - Arrival

5 th June 201

It has been one of the golden dreams in my life and my 'wish list' to visit a lovely country, Australia since I was a child...With Allah's blessings, my dream came true when 6 of us (Zuzu, Ahmad,Rahah, Zuzu, KAifa and myself)
spent our precious time for trip to Melbourne...Even this note is quite outdated (6 months backs hehehe), I purposely write it so that it'll be fresh in memory...hehehe...The story began like this.............

- We boarded around 12.15am and departed from KL around 1.20am. It was 7 hours and 50 minutes journey. The journey took about approximately 8 hours from KL - Melbourne. After about 4 hours journey, we entered Australia continent area, half of the journey to cross the entire Australia continents from north to south because Melbourne is situated at the south most part of Australia. The sky was so clear during sunrise, we could see some Australia's desert with oasis areas from top (from the aircraft) while crossing middle of the continent. The pilot of Air Asia X - 330 announced that at the right hand side we can see the landmark of Australia, Sydney.
- It was a gentle touch on the ground, the aircraft Air Asia-X 330 safely landed at Tullamarine, Melbourne airport around 11 am Australia time (2 hours earlier than Malaysia time). The pilot announced that current temperature is 11 degree Celsius at that time (noon)...Melbourne..here we are........
- Upon arrival at Tullamarine airport, we undergone Custom checks - a warm welcome from the airport attendance, custom assisted us for further checkup for our goods/ baggage...
.While queuing up for the checking(there's separate lane by country/ flight), we could see the checking process from other visitors from other country such as China. The examination of goods was quite strict , well it's for safety purpose...
- After few minutes queue, was our turn for checking. We undergone series of questions such as interview session with the custom officer....There was a cute young guys with a fancy hairstyle and friendly as well...a bit different approach from other visitors, we were interviewed based on our intention to enter Australia, documents checking, ect........He was a funny guy interviewed us with some jokes as well...Huhh, after about 5-10 minutes, he is satisfied and we are allowed to enter.....yeay!

We took airport dedicated bus and shuttle service to our Hotel at Travelodge, Docklands....The cost is 24AUD returns to Southern Cross bus station including mini bus shuttle service to out hotel. The service was excellent which made our life easier and enjoyable !!!. We bought the ticket at the ticket booth inside the airport building a friendly female lady entertained us with Big smilee......After that, we went out and waited at the airport buat @ the bus stop, outside of the airport building....

- Outside, the temperature was low and breeezyyy, ermmmm guyzz get ready with ur winter coats and sweater..oopss...sorry sweater did not sufficient enuff for us, hoh (^_^) ........sorry for those who hv intention for 'fashion show'...keep ur lovely bloose and shirt...and just wear thick winter coats, sweater, socks and gloves..... :D:D

Melbourne, I couldn't wait to treasure u.....

What happen next, will be posted in next post.....yippy...till then.....................

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