The Red Passport

Perjalanan dari Moscow ke Saint Petersburg memakan masa selama 8 jam dengan menaiki keretapi malam. Sengaja aku pilih keretapi malam supaya dapat menjimatkan masa perjalanan dan kos penginapan untuk satu malam. Suhu di luar kira-kira 2 darjah celcius. Kami tiba di St. Petersburg keesokan paginya kira-kira jam 7 pagi. Tanpa membuang masa, kami mencari loker berkunci yang disediakan di stesen keretapi utama St. Petersburg. Selesai menyimpan bagasi dan membeli sedikit makanan di kedai serbaneka berdekatan, kami menikmati kopi panas yang dibeli di mesin vending. Terasa sangat nikmat. Seterusnya, kami terus menuju ke Palace Square di tengah-tengah kota St. Petersburg di mana ia merupakan tempat berjumpa bagi Free Walking Tour yang kami tempeh sebelum ini. Seorang lelaki telah sedia menunggu kami sambil memegang sepanduk “Free Walking Tour”. Orangnya tinggi, fasih berbahasa Inggeris dan namun agak kurang dengan senyuman. Free Walking Tour ini adalah percuma. Sekiranya anda berp...

Moscow and St. Petersburg - A 'Great' Birthday Present (Part 1) April 25, 2016 | Adiek Sarah It has been a while since our last post. Previously, we have shared about the Russian Visa application. In this entry, we would like to share our 10 days experience visiting Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia, Helsinki in Finland, and Tallin in Estonia. We flew using Vietnam Airlines with extremely cheap and worth of price. Only RM1,400 return ticket from Kuala Lumpur to Moscow, Russia and stopover at Ho Chi Minh City for both ways. I would skip our part in Ho Chi Minh City. The temperature was around 8 degree centigrate in Moscow when we first arrived at Demodedovo Airport on 8th November 2015. As an international airport, the airport still have English signboards that enable us to read. The passport counters were confusing, not sure whether we were queing at the right lane or not. We needed to ask a lot of people for that. We first...

The Remarkable Mount Bromo, Indonesia August 26, 2015 | Adiek Sarah I was lucky to have to a friend who also can be the best companion or travel partner. Thanks to Mbk Tika for her hospitality and willingness to spend her time to travel with me to Mt. Bromo. The idea suddenly came across my mind to travel during Chinese New Year break, but end up the date was changed to Thaipusam break on 17th Jan 2014 because she will be free on that weekend. This plan was proposed to another good friend of mine, Ain and she agreed to join since Mbk Tika is actually her close friend during their study time. Here we go. We flew to Juanda International Airport, Surabaya on 17th Jan 2014 at 9.35 am. The flight was delayed, but we managed to reach the around 11.40 am. Mbk Tika has already arrived and ready to fetch us. She still had another class (Mbk Tika is a Master Student at Airlangga University, Surabaya) after lunch and she dropped us at Galaxy Mall to have a...