Yeah... maaaannnnn....!!!! (to read : Yaman...!!)

Picture speaks a thousand words... begitulah katanya... so instead of teman mengomel seribu bahasa campur2 macam rojak singapore, kita layan gambo2 kat Yemen (sambil memberikan komen2 manja yang mungkin irrevalant to the photos... haha...)

the flight to Sana'a, Yemen was scheduled at 7h00am... maknanya, have to be at the airport by 5am latest... nasib baik boley buat online check in, so did that the night before (siap boley pilih seat lagi..!! yeah..!!), maka paginya tak la kelam kabut sangat kena beratur utk check in... just go to luggage drop off area, then go into the terminal... sebab dah dtg awal kan..., sanggup tuh menapak sampai ke T1 semata2 nak pegi ke Diners lounge...!! bukan aper, sajer nak memanjakan diri dgn makanan2 yg super duperlicious tuh... Diners lounge nih, kira first class lounge laaa... bukan calang2 boley masuk beb... hehe...

matahari baru nak baik masa flight nak gerak... ekcelli, it was a bit cloudy that day... UAE macam kerap hujan lak sejak dua menjak nih...

masa tengah terbang mendaki awan, I could see clearly the skylines of Dubai... very clear view (cuma kat sini tak clear coz camera handsetnya yg kurang kualitas...!! haha...)...

do you see what I see....? (if you don't see, normally it means tmrw you nak mati oledi...!! haha...) Burj Dubai tuh.... the tallest building in the world...!! hehe... Er, itu Taukebuku aka tauketahu work just below that Burj Dubai... haha...

also saw Palm Jumeirah masa flight tengah naik... tapi tak sempat nak ambil gambarnya... you see more things if you pay attention to them... :)

and after climbing the skies for awhile, we were above the clouds... tengok tuh betapa birunya langit...!! terpegun beruk kejap....!!

initial view of Sana'a, a city 2000 feet above sea level katanya... cooler temperature...

spotted the brand new Presidential mosque.... the one and only significant landmark in Sana'a...? may be... Sana'a masih agak ketinggalan, it seems that in Peninsular Arab, Yemen adalah negara yg termundur... aneh, kerana suatu masa dulu Yemen sangat terkenal, dan menjadi rebutan kuasa2 Eropah... Pak Arab Pak Arab Yemeni & Omani lah yang membawa Islam ke Nusantara... teringat geng2 keturunan Arab kat Mesia... si Alias, si Fendiosman tuh.... a few of the AlJunieds, Alattas, Al Bukhari and Alsagoffs that I know... anyhow, these Yemenites in Mesia are not from Sana'a region, they are from the south of Yemen (coastal area), called Hadhramaut...

bila touch down, kelam kabut semua orang nak turun... awatnya yg ribut sgt tuh...? kecoh...!! tu yang teman tak suka tuh...!! nak turun dari flight pun kelam kabut, ribut2... nak mengejarkan queue immigration counter ler tuh...

errr... sori ye, no sky bridge ker amendenya...? sila turun flight, naik bas utk pergi ke terminal... mcm kat T2 Subang airport lak rasanya (shuttle flight KUL - SIN dulu2....)

Cobus bus... jemput2 naik... kejap jer, tak payah duduk pun...

ni lah yang berebut2 sgt tadi nih nak keluar flight...? mengejarkan queue immigration... tak la lama sgt menunggu dalam barisan....? abih tuh, awat kekwat sgt depa nih tadi...?

btw, Malaysian passport, hulur jer passport, can stay up to 3 months on visit Visa (but have to register with Immigration department after 2 weeks of stay)

tak dapek eden menolongnyo...!! kat Sana'a pun ada traffic jam (sebab depa tengah buat major construction of one big flyover), akibatnya, traffic jam bertambah2 buruk... flyover due to open in May apparently...

what is interesting about the traffic jam kat Sana'a nih, ianya adalah traffic jam tak bersistem... siapa berani, masuk dulu.... haha...!

not many traffic light in Sana'a.... masih guna Pak Polisi yang tersangat power menahan kenderaan2 supaya berhenti, atau membenarkan kereta lalu....:)

Sana'a is in mountaineous area... funny, kita kata "balik kampung", mat Saleh kata "go back to the village", depa kata "go back to the mountains..."!! which is actually very true...!! :D

Sana'a in the morning...

Yemeni architecture....

a more modern/recent Yemeni architecture,...

like in a few countries, depa nih buat style rumah setingkat setingkat sikit sikit... buat 2 tingkat dulu, when there is more need and more money, tambah 2 tingkat lagi, then later, tambah lagi...

Yemeni typical attire... jubah putih, talipinggang arab berselitkan pisau tradisional khanja, dan pakai coat/blazer.... serban sama ada diikat atau kainnya di letak di atas bahu....

a group of Yemeni men

Yemenia, national airlines of Yemen... somehow, I have noticed that they have quite a few Boeing737-800 series... Rasanya Malaysia Airlines pun tak ada (apatah lagi Air Asia...). it's the latest B737 plane, kepak dia ada terangkat sket... mcm gambo kat atas nih...:)

Yemenia...? dah naik dah a few times (Dubai - Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta - Dubai, Sana'a - Dubai....), oklah... nothing to cry out loud about... biasa2 jer, setimpal dgn rege tiketnya...

nih masa dah nak balik Dubai balik dah... going to the flight from the terminal

food served.... may be a bit too much, I think....

what I like the most is the chocolate (to eat with coffee... sedaaaapppp...) and somehow I like their hand wipe... berbau segar...!!

sempena konsep jgn membazir makanan yang diajar sejak kecik ("habiskan makanan! tengok budak2 kat Afrika tuh yang tak cukup makan! jgn membazir...!!" said my mom years ago...), maka makanan yg dihidang akan cuba dihabiskan mana yang larat....!!

view near to Oman/UAE border.... unique landscape... berbukit bukau, tapi bukan bukit batu kapur, macam bukit metal besi lak rupanya... hitam berkilat...

again, unique and interesting view from above... masa dah nak sampai Dubai...

just before touch down (sentuh bawah...????), can't identify which area this is... rasanya macam Mirdiff, tapi betul ker... rasa macam banyak sgt villa la pulak kawasan nih... which area is this?

nih nak citer sket.... kat hotel tuh (Mercure Hotel Al Saeed, Sana'a), utk breakfast depa, sesapa nak coffee, sila buat sendiri... guna instant coffee jer, siap depa letak dlm mangkuk jer... one nite including breakfast : USD120, boley....? rasanya 3 star jer kut (may be 4, but I doubt...)... ketawa menengoknya.... haha...

and guess how much above meal costed me...? a plain omelette, 3 buns, and a cup of coffee...? in a budget hotel nearby a customer office (tersampai awal for mtng, tunggu customer balik dari lunch), in Sana'a, Yemen... a country where stuffs are generally cheaper than in KL.... Gua kena ketuk MYR10.50 beb...!! kalo kat Dubai, kira tersangat murah laaaa... tapi bila pikir2 balik, kalo kat Mesia, sure dah melenting dah tanya "macam mana kira nih...?", hahaha.... especially bila the telur dadarnya tersangatlah plain, kalo tak tambah lada sulah & garam, memang terasa tawar ya amat.... begitulah adat bila berjalan, kengkadang tuh, terasa macam kena rompak in broad day light... tak pa laaaa... kompeni yang akan bayarkan nanti...

ciao cincau