Travel To Africa PART 3: Yellow Fever Vaccination

In few posts ago... 

I promised to tell ya' about the YFV.

As for Malaysian, salah satu syarat untuk permohonan visa ke negara in the African continent ialah, we need to be vaccinated by the Yellow Fever Vaccination...

It's not too easy cus tak semua klinik/hospital providing this type of vaccine and its a bit costly.

So, I pun sibuklah meng "Google" list of clinics yg ade, rupa2nya xbyk klinik yg provide vaccine ni kt KL, malahan Malaysia just only about 19 places and 5 within KL (anggaran je la)

I found some places dan start calling

Twin Tower Medical Center - KLCC, Prince Court MC, Pusat Perubatan Putrajaya, Hospital Tentera Wangsa Maju, ada yg too costly dan ada yg hanya provides utk government servants yg travel to Africa atas urusan rasmi. 

Finally I got the klinik yg provide vaccine ni dgn harga paling murah among all...it's KLINIK KITA, DAYABUMI.

We got the vaccination certification right after bayar...dah boleh submit ke kedutaan...

hoooyeaaah.

Travel To Africa PART 2 : Documents Amendment

Hari ni my family & I pergi went to the high commission of The Federal Republic of Nigeria cus nak submit visa application forms.

Dengan penuh confident la semua my documents dah lengkap sbb I dh refer the list given kat NIS (Nigeria Immigration Service) website. Malangnyer there's still some documents yg tak lengkap.

 Yes... it's mean that my paperwork is still incomplete.

Staff kat situ advised me to re-check all the documents once again. He show me the mistakes and asked me to amend it. I pun buat mcmn yg dia ckpkan and I really make sure that there'll be no mistake again this time...

CHECK LIST:-

• Invitation letter from host - done
• Host passport copy - done
• Host 3 months latest of BS/SOA- done
• Flight ticket booking - done
• Vaccination cert. Copy - done
• Marriage cert. (cus we're spouse) - done
• My passport copy - done
• Application form for all (get online) - done
• Application payment receipt for all- done
• Application acknowledgement (all)- done
• Kid's passport copy - done
• Kid's birth certs - done
• 2 passport photos (each applicant) sized 52mm x 52mm - done

All in 2 copies

WILL BE PROCEED TO THE SUBMISSION COUNTER SOONEST POSSIBLE

Yeaayyy!!!!

To be continued.....

p.s: Hope this might helps someone with the fresh application which still confused about the list of document need to be attached for the visa application process yahhh

TILL THE NEXT POST

Travel To Africa PART 1: Visa Application (For Malaysian)

There's few document we have to prepare for the purpose of visa application from the high commission of every African region in Malaysia.

We will be travelling to Nigeria soon for family visit and here I would like to share the list of documents need to be prepared before the submission of the visa application form.

As we was planned of going there for "visit", so we should apply the tourist / visitor visa and this is our preparation :-

• Passport valid for at least 6 months.
• Duly completed visa application form
• Two recent 52mm x 52mm size photographs
• A Letter of invitation from a company/host in Nigeria accepting immigration responsibility.
• Visitors/tourists are required to show evidence of sufficient funds
• Evidence of online payment for visa fee

Soon, I'll story you how we do some efforts to get the Yellow Fever Vaccination as to complete the rules and regulations of the Nigeria visa application process...till then,bye for now~~

TO BE CONTINUED

Seam Reap,Cambodia Trip...

Hi everyone...

I'm excited to share photo2 yang di capture sepanjang percutian kami di Seam Reap,Cambodia selama 5 hari 5 malam.

Our destination kali ni adalah ke Cambodia atau Kemboja dalam Bahasa Melayu. 

Percutian kami bermula pada 30/4/2014. Flight (Air Asia) jam 6.45 pagi dari LCCT ke Seam Reap. Jadi jam 3.45 dah nak check-in and flight kami take - off tepat pada waktunya.

You know what's funny???

I boleh curious at first sebab tengok tempoh perjalanan pergi dengan perjalanan baliknya tak sama. Pergi 1 jam manakala balik pula hingga 3 jam, sangat pelik hinggalah one of my bff told me that it might be the differentiate of time (with Seam Reap local time) then I make a check dan ternyata memang I confuse kat situ. 

Cambodia local time is one hour lewat dari Malaysia.

So, time yang diprinted pada booking ticket tu adalah mengikut waktu tempatan. 

Journey took 2 hours till we reached our destination.

Lebih kurang jam 7.45A.M (waktu tempatan) kami selamat tiba di Seam Reap.

Alhamdulillah...

What I did when I reached there was beli local simkad dengan harga USD$3 dekat kiosk yang terletak exactly dekat exit arrival hall,Seam Reap International Airport. 

Both my twins sangat excited.

Mummy  & Daddy pun sangat-sangat happy.

Keluar dari arrivall hall, taxi sudah tersedia menunggu. 

Masuk je dalam taxi tu rasa lain cus kereta di Cambodia driver side nya belah kiri, 

so kekok jugaklah. 

Dengan bayaran USD$25 kami di hantar ke hotel yang telah kami book online 

di agoda.com sebelum decide utk lawat sekitar Seam Reap.

Pada 30hb April 2014 lebih kurang 10 A.M kami checked-in 

di Hotel Terrasse De' Elephant, Seam Reap.

Ohhh nikmatnya, kami tidur dulu sebelum jalan-jalan.

Bila badan dah rasa segar sikit dari jetlag penerbangan yang tidak berapa lama sangat tadi, 

kami pun turun dari hotel untuk mencari makan.

Kami hesitate the status halal of the food permis disini. 

Sememangnya agak sukar mendapatkan restoran halal. 

Nasib kami sangat baik kerana terdapat sebuah restoran halal Pakistan betul-betul dihadapan hotel kami. 

Kami pun makan disini tanpa rasa was-was kerana ada logo HALAL berhadapan restoran tersebut. Restoran Maharajah namanya

Harga makanan di sini adalah antara USD$4 - USD$12 depend on the menu.

Segelas teh ais nya USD$1, sangat murah bukan??? 

hahahaha..klu convert ke RM??? Memang agak serik lah. 

Rasanya Singapore @ Australia pun tak spend macam ni agaknya!!! 

Itu jelah yang tak bestnya, cus matawang yang digunakan disini mostly adalah USD$.

Matawang mereka tidak berapa digunakan (lagi-lagi tourist macam kami) tetapi ia masih boleh digunakan jika mahu. 

Cuma, sanggup ke bawa note berkepuk-kepuk hanya nak bayar air RM3.50? 

Its because matawang mereka sangat rendah nilainya berbanding USD$ dan RM.

HOTEL TERRASSE DE ELEPHANT, SEAM REAP (Day 1- Day 3)

Inilah hotel yang kami diami pada 3 hari terawal kami disini.

Hotel yang mempamerkan element Cambodia purba,

bersesuaian dengan keunikan negara Cambodia itu sendiri.

Lets the picture talk

Enjoy....

VISITING ANGKOR WATT (Day 2)

2nd day kami disini, we've decided to visit the most historical destination on earth. 

ANGKOR WATT

Taken there by a tuk-tuk, and its also our first time experiencing the tuk-tuk.

Sangat seronok especially the kids. 

Tapi kejap je since cuaca sangatlah panas di Cambodia saat itu, 

kids mula lah meragam penat. 

Tapi I pujuk-pujuk lah kan, nak visit Angkor Watt ni anak-anak oiii...

selama ni baca kat buku sejarah sekolah je

(tak malu admit that I is jakun)

We bought Angkor Watt entrance pass dengan harga USD$20 seorang 

kami pun meneruskan perjalanan ke destinasi. 

You wouldn't believe, your photo will be printed on the pass, its true

Tempat jualan ticket dan lokasi Angkor Watt tidaklah dekat sangat. 

Still have to take about 15 minutes journey by tuk tuk, perjalanan kami di jamu dengan pemandangan pokok-pokok hutan dikiri dan kanan jalan. 

There's no highway in Cambodia. 

Hanya jalan kampung biasa, meriah dengan motorsikal dan basikal 

cus not many of the local people di sana afford to drive kenderaan berat 

melainkan motorsikal dan basikal. 

Penduduk tempatan di sini juga sangat sopan santun dan soft spoken. 

Kami tak risau akan risiko snatch thief atau pencopet cus memang suasana di sini sangat damai

Pemandangan tuk tuk berselerakan di simpang jalan sambil si pemandu menyapa tourist yang lalu lalang sekiranya kami memerlukan khidmat mereka amat mendamaikan.

Namun mereka tidak sekali-kali memaksa lagi sekiranya kami menjawab Later..or No,Thank You.

Rata-rata tuk tuk will charge us about USD$8 - USD$10 setiap satu-satu perjalanan kami for the whole evening.

Traffic juga tidak "rough" cus pemandu-pemandu di sini memandu kenderaan mereka dengan perlahan dan akan memberhentikan kenderaan mereka setiap kali melihat pejalan kaki ingin melintas jalan. 

Ada beberapakali my husband tegur cus I tengok kanan bila nak melintas jalan 

sedangkan itu traffic dari sebelah kiri maklumlah, ingat mcm kat Malaysia - right-handed driving

Except cuacanya 

sighhhhhhhhhhh

Sangat-sangat panas dan sangat-sangat kering...

Enjoy the pictures ya!!!

Selesai visit the Angkor Watt,

pemandu tuk tuk menghantar kami pulang ke Hotel. 

Kami pun balik ke bilik untuk mandi sebelum turun semula untuk makan. 

Di restoran yang sama demi nak avoid perasaan was was...

3rd day di Siem Reap

 kami jalan-jalan di Old Market. 

There's alots of markets here at Siem Reap.

Pasar malam (night market) pun ada. 

Old Market ni macam-macam ada daripada bahan-bahan basah

(keperluan harian) hinggalah kepada cenderamata. 

Old Market terbahagi kepada pasar basah dan pasar kering. 

Batu-batu permata pun ada dijual di sini. 

Masa ni I tak shopping apa-apa lagi, just went for window shopping just nak tengok beza harga antara tempat,

just balik ke hotel dan berehat cus masa masih awal lebih kurang 3 P.M local time.

Rehat in the other words bagi my kids was swimming timeeee!!!! 

Mummy kena drag jugaklah kalau tak,risau pulak Mummy takut diorang lemas, 

cus diorg just pandai berenang di tempat cetek

Loves my kids so much and am happy for them.

Enjoy the pictures again guys...

Malamnya kami turun semula untuk shopping sikit. 

Kami lalui di Angkor Night market yang sangat havoc at night. 

Sangat-sangat meriah dengan hiruk pikuk pelancong yang datang dari seluruh pelosok dunia. 

Sangat happening. 

Lokasi hotel penginapan kami yang tidak jauh dari sini membolehkan kami hanya berjalan kaki sahaja untuk menikmati suasana malam di Siem Reap sambil bershopping. 

Banyak pub dan kedai makan, di Angkor Night Market juga terdapat tempat untuk urut kaki dan badan dengan harga yang sangat murah. 

Dari serendah USD 1, pengunjung yang datang ke sini boleh mendapatkan perkhidmatan urut kaki. 

I pay USD$4 for 1 hour leg massage meanwhile, 

hubby and the kids buat pedi and meni for USD$8 per person (without nail-color)

Entah kenapa I ade bace some blogs yang mana bloggers tu dah expirience ke Seam Reap boleh spend only USD$10 siap dapat beli macam-macam tapi for myself, the expenses we spent seems too much (soobbs sobbs). 

Maybe because I went there with kids and they went alone. 

Mungkin kot kan itu bezanya,

 pujuklah diri sendiri yang dah banyak habiskan duit ni huhuhuhuuu...

At the Angkor Night Market, I bought few things such as fridge magnets (USD$1 each), key-chains (USD$1 each), t-shirts (USD$4 each), Ali Baba pants (USD$10 each), cotton silk material (for my mom) (USD$25 each for 4 mtrs), bag (USD$15 each), table clothes (USD$5 each) 

just authentic Cambodian products. 

Tak nak beli barang yang boleh dapat kat KL..buat penat bahu je nak mengangkut kang.

Makanan yang pelik-pelik juga senang didapati di sini such as katak, ulat, ular, cengkerik, labah-labah, scorpion dan pelbagai makanan eksotik yang lain ada dijual disini.

Kredit kepada tuan punya gambar "DeQNor"

MOVING TO THE NEW HOTEL,MEKONG PALACE HOTEL - CHEAPER & NEARER TO THE AIRPORT (Day 4)

4th day, kami pindah ke hotel yang baru. Tujuannya selain inginkan kepelbagaian pengalaman dengan penginapan hotel, ialah  we want to make sure that we won't be late going to the airport on the departure way back to KL next tommorow cus our flight is early in the morning

(8.45 A.M local time)

Hari-hari terakhir hanya kami habiskan dengan berjalan-jalan di sekitar pekan Seam Reap sambil teman hubby shopping, seriously,he shopping worst then a lady!!! 

I bet you won't believe!!

PLAN KE TA PHROM DAN FLOATING VILLAGE YANG "GAGAL"

Nothing to explain again rite??? Dgn title kecik perenggan ni let me make it straight and simple yg plan kami nak lawat Ta Phrom dan Floating village terpaksa di batal kan cus of hujan turun dengan sangat lebat bersama-sama hujan dan ribut hingga lewat petang and the location that we wished to go pun might be dah tutup (Angkor Watt tutup 6.30 P.M and am pretty sure that those locations jugak tutup diwaktu yang sama disamping kami harus bersiap-siap packing malam ni cus our flight tomorrow will be early in the morning)

I whispered to him that am sad cus we can't make our last visit cus we might won't be there again

he said that "why not?? we can be here any time if there's chance..."

DEPARTING SEAM REAP,CAMBODIA ON THE 5TH OF MAY 2014

6.30 A.M