India Trip - Kashmir, Srinagar (Part B)

Hai, back again here untuk habis kan India trip gua last March. Post sebelum ini, kalau korang usha adalah few photos yang aku share sekitar sampai di Delhi, Asoka Hotel & Resort yang kitorang stay one night before fly to Kashmir and all. Ni hahh, sini

So to be continue, 

Kami berlepas dari Delhi Domestic Airport untuk ke Srinagar takdelah lama sangat. Well, Srinagar itu macam nama Capital and in it, adalah Kashmir dan Jammu dan lain lain lagi. Dari Delhi nak ke Srinagar takde lah lama sangat around 1 hour by plane macam tu sampailah. Alternative lain kalau by car aku rasa adalah setengah hari sampai; but that one i cannot really assure sebab i didnt experience that; tang jalan pun info nya aku google map kan aje. Hehe.  Nak ke Srinagar tu kitorang naik airline goindigo dia macam ala ala light flight mcm kita selalu naik air asia to bandung etc tuu je. 

One thing yang pelik sikit is that, Kashmir as we noted memang one of the places dalam India kan, tapi weather diorang could be so differ at times tau and also the waktu. Ala ala macam semenanjung dengan Sabah Sarawak. Lain waktu, tapi kita sama je weather. Tapi diorang MashaAllah could be different. 

So nak di best kan cerita, masa kitorang sampai Kashmir (Srinagar), the day before we arrived rupanya banyak flight delayed due to heavy snowfalls; gila kau tak happy sebab ini bermaksud we got the chances to at least feels the winter weather like finally. Jump jump laa aku dengan Chik; bestfriend yang memang join trip ke India ni. 

Can you actually imagine how'd i feel masa ni? Look at those moutains up from the plane, bro army sebelah aku pun macam errr je gua sibuk sibuk snap sebelah dia. Siapa suruh duduk tepi tingkap kan! Senang cerita sebenarnya, before flight ready to fly ada lah group group mama minta nak duduk tepi tingkap, tapi jangan harap lah haha. diorang the indians sendiri pun berebut ok. idk why, memang duduk tepi tingkap kan selesa dia lain sikit. *kot*

So masa arrival time dekat Srinagar, believe or not turun je dari flight kitorang macam "wehhhh sejuk weeehhhhh" bajet power memasing pakai tshirt- kemeja sekeping je especially Mama hehe. Masa sampai menggelupur jugala dalam airport semua nak tunggukan luggage sampai, dengan kitorang membongkar tengah airport cari handgloves, cari scarf, cari sweater nak bagi mama pakai, Luckily, i got my winter coat in hand so macam tadehal sangat. Sebab memang bawa and malas nak masuk dalam luggage bikin berat je. 

Nak pi Kashmir ni minta diingatkan, rules & regulations dia gial ketat bro. Dari security, dengan kilo luggage, cosmetics etc tu takbole hand lugage (normal lah). Tapi yang benar, Security dia memang sangat power. Like once you turun flight you dah nampak army dengan senapang like every places/point. Belum masa cop passport. Banyak security level you had to go through. Kalau perempuan, memang ada slot khas dekat kastam (who looks scary like an army) diorang raba segala tempat. YES segala tempat. Konsep redha je. Mcm biasa nak amik gambar memang tak dapat lah bro. 

So lepas dah dapat segala keperluan sebab memasing didnt expect it would be that cold and snowy, kitorang pun start move to the transporters who await us from the outside.  

Uda was so excited and kept telling how lucky we were (referring to me and kechik:Nabila) to have this opportunity; winter and snows everywhere, yelaa jemah oi. First time ni. Pestime! Lucky sebab India actually Winter around End January to February. March tu dah saki baki tapi kitorang datang end march, masih lagi berbaki Winter untuk kami. Mana tak happy. Alhamdullillah! :)

Photo above is to actually proved that army does everywhere in Kashmir. Nampak tuu Senapang :3 Fahaman aku dari one of the uncle yang join this trip, dia kata memang ada masalah sikit Kashmir dengan India due to religion issues and sebab diorang pun dekat dah dengan Pakistan. So, yaa. Fyi, Kashmir ni 99% is muslims sebab tu kalau orang bertudung, Islam yang datang diorang sambut baik lain macam. Lovely isn't it? Tapi serious, orang Kashmir sungguh  gua tak tipu, budiman semuanya. 

So for our 4 days stays at Kashmir, unexpectedly we actually live in a boat house at Dal Lake, Srinagar. Jauh benar terpesong dengan apa aku bayangkan. Ku fikirkan its gonna be like Rumah Panjang ala ala kat Sarawak tu or maybe a challet sebab Uda memang ada mention, yang our stay tu panjang haha so the house boat memang panjang, tapi Uda lupa sebut terapung atas Lake hehee

At first, memasing memang impression like Wey, macam Bulang ke wei (small village dekat Batam Area atas tepian laut which the kampung is my aunt's family) tapi wei wei, boat house is seriously far far away from what you expected lah, kalau tengok dari cara how you wanna get into the boat house and etc

So yes, since its a BOAT HOUSE atas Lake, memang lah the only transport to connect you from the city is the boat, ops correction its a Sampan! which i found it really interesting and exciting while mama and uda, ada lah struggle sikit coz you know how they afraid of sampan and etc. Lols, see kechik, excited habis bro while mama....

Tu kat sebelah gua, tengah bertakafur dan cuba memotivasikan diri sebab nyatanya, lepas ni lebih banyak turun naik boat taxi ini untuk ke bandar dan mama harus lah melawan perasaan takut itu. hehehehe

Below is the uncle who drove us; (mendayung kitorang) back and forth for all total 4 days sepanjang kitorang kat sana. power tak power lah uncle ni wei. Couldn't recall the name of this powerful strong uncle tapi sepanjang kat sana, dia memang setia tunggu kitorang and melayan je kitorang; referred to Mama, Uda, me and chik. 

This is the picture how the House boat actually looks alike. Each of the boat usually dimiliki oleh different owner and the interior juga berbeza. Ada laa beza kot, interior power mahal sikit. Interior biasa, murah sikit. Satg gua update interior, sabarr ok :)

Sepanjang kitorang dari Jeti nak ke boat house kitorang, memang akan secara tiba tiba ramai peniaga peniaga yang memang antaranya adalah penduduk asal Dal Lake akan datang mendayung sampan pancung ni and jual barang local diorang. Mostly macam pashmina and etc. Noted that sebenarnya barang diorang quite expensive tau kalau di compare kan shopping di Delhi. So better actually ignore kan shj any local yang passed by or try utk jual beli sebab kalau korang ter-layan sekali, mesti korang akan terkejut with the price and you guys end up beli juga coz you guys kesian...

ya, that happened to me few times kat sana which i regretted that i reset my mind, takpela-- niatkan untuk menolong sahaja. begituuu ahaha

Above is Chik with the local's daughter yang sangat lah petah bercakap and she is so fluent english that we found her so adorable :) By the way, kalau nak usha what is boat house dan segala, i give you the link here (dal lake boathouse) to you guys look around and all. 

To be reminded again, this trip only cost about RM3900 per pax all included. ALL included kalau you guys ikut under Triways Travel Agent. So memang tak dapat nak bagi exact figure of the price of the stays di boat house and everything but what i can recall is that, boat house ni usually ada 2-3 rooms inside and the price ikut bilik you nak tu. Single bed, queen bad and etc. Semua akan diquote termasuk sekali dengan food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Per night. Differ semua ada RM500 per night, ada RM600 and even higher. Tapi kalau exclude food, it could be lesser.

Untuk rate kami, i dont really sure sebab all Triways yang uruskan with that RM3900 all included. Kitorang yang pasti ada butler, ada food breakfast, lunch and dinner all in. So, cheapp la kan?

Sampai Dal Lake, adalah dalam Tengahari and we sempat to have our Lunch on the boat house before kita keluar lagi and round the bandar. So, on the next post, gua akan try untuk update the people of Srinagar and the Boat House kami duduk punya interior dulu okay. 

Till then guys, 

Cheers,

Syamira Ismail.