Keindahan Kashmir dan juga keagungan mercu tanda Taj Mahal membuatkan ramai yang sanggup ke India walaupun dulu ia bukanlah menjadi destinasi pilihan pelancongan.
Walaupun begitu, daripada pengalaman mereka ke sana, sebelum berangkat bercuti ke India sebaiknya anda perlu membuat persiapan kerana keadaan di sana tidaklah seperti kita melancong ke Eropah, Korea dan sebagainya.Jadi apa persediaan yang perlu anda lakukan sebelum bercuti ke India?
Ini 10 persediaan yang boleh menjadi rujukan kepada anda.
Duit Tip
Sediakan duit lebih untuk bagi tip sebab budaya di India, bagi duit tip adalah perkara biasa. Sememangnya ramai di antara rakyat India yang cari makan dengan mengharapkan duit tip. Tidak kira sama ada di New Delhi, Agra ataupun Kashmir. Tak sah tak bagi tip kepada mereka. Jangan terjebak atau biarkan diri dibantu oleh orang asing. Tak ada maknanya dia tolong tarik beg dengan percuma. Semuanya perlu dibayar. Kalau tak bayar, dia akan kejar anda sampai sudah.
Tukar Duit
Tukar duit awal sebelum berangkat ke India. Di Kashmir, ada kalanya duit RM atau USD laku dalam urusan jual beli tapi rugi jika ditukar atau convert. Orang di Kashmir atau New Delhi yang berniaga kebanyakkannya pandai dan fasih berbahasa inggeris.
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Pergi Bulan Ogos Atau September
Bulan terbaik untuk ke Kashmir adalah antara Ogos dan September. Musim lusuh dengan cuaca yang tak berapa sejuk diiringi permandangan yang sangat cantik. Kalau travel pada musim sejuk, tidak digalakkan tidur di guest house kerana kebanyakkan guest house di Kashmir tidak mempunyai alat pemanas. Seeloknya anda tidur di bost house atau hotel 4 ke 5 bintang. Sekurangnya ada pemanas walaupun menggunakan cara tradisional.
Makanan Halal Senang
Kebanyakkan rakyat India adalah vegetarian. Cumanya kebersihan makanan itu harus dijaga dengan makan di restoran-restoran yang diyakini. Jangan makan street food. Nanti sakit perut, akan memberikan ketidakselesaan kepada anda. Di Kashmir lagi senang cari makanan halal sebab di Kashmir mempunyai 95% penduduk Muslim, 3% Hindu dan 1% Kristian dan 1% Sikh. Jangan lupa juga bawa ubat cirit birit atau demam untuk langkah berjaga-jaga in case terkena makanan beracun.
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Kashmir Bersih
Dari segi kebersihan, Kashmir mendahului berbanding wilayah-wilayah lain. Orang di Kashmir lebih menjaga kebersihan berbanding orang di New Delhi dan Agra. Rumah-rumah di Kashmir macam di Switzerland. Kashmir dan New Delhi adalah dua tempat yang sangat berbeza dari segi pemandangan dan kebersihan.
Lokasi Paling Cantik
Antara Pahalgam (mini Switzerland, Kashmir Valley) Gulmarg, Sonamarg, di Sonamarg adalah tempat paling cantik. Jangan lupa untuk singgah ke sana. Naik kuda di celah-celah salji. Tempat shooting Bhajrangi Bhaijaan & Mission Imposibble. Naik kuda tu pun jangan terima dahulu. Tanya harga dan tawar menawar. Kebiasaannya mereka akan offer RS1500, cuba tawar sehingga RS800.
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Visa Mohon 3 Bulan
Visa India ETA boleh apply 3 bulan. Ada yang setahun. Setahun harganya dalam RM400 lebih. Mohon yang 3 bulan dalam RM340 sahaja.
Download Apps OLACABS
Apps ini macam Grab di Malaysia. Jauh lebih murah daripada teksi. Jangan suka naik tuktuk sebab mereka akan caj per kepala. Daftar guna nombor Malaysia di apps ini pun boleh. Cuma mereka tak dapat call sekiranya anda tidak dijumpai. Gunakan pengangkutan awam seperti keretapi atau bas juga berbaloi tetapi kena study dahulu laluan bas yang digunakan.
Taj Mahal Tutup Hari Jumaat
Taj Mhaal dan kawasan sekitar tutup hari Jumaat untuk lawasan bagi memberikan laluan kepada waktu solat. Elakkan pergi waktu weekend sebab ramai manusia akan membanjiri kawasan sekitar Taj Mahal. Jangan terpedaya dengan orang yang offer menjadi tourist guide sebab anda ada kebarangkalian untuk dikenakan tip yang mahal. Gunakan tourist guide yang berdaftar di bawah kerajaan. Free of Charge.
Shopping Barangan Kulit Murah
Shopping barangan kulit paling murah adalah di Ground Market. Jaket kulit asli cuma RS2500. Anda juga boleh beli semua barang cenderahati di sini kerana harganya murah.
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Foto atau gambar lama semangnya dirakam dalam imej warna hitam dan putih sahaja sebelum industri ini berkembang sehingga hari ini. Kalau buka album lama nenek atau ibu bapa anda yang lahir sebelum zaman merdeka pasti boleh lihat foto-foto hanya hitam dan putih.
Kadangkala rasa bosan seperti tiada tarikan kerana tidak sebarang warna kan? Sama juga seperti di dalam buku teks atau muzium, gambar-gambar tokoh atau kisah sejahtera rata-rata kekal hitam dan putih. Namun, pada zaman teknologi sekarang ini, gambar-gambar hitam putih boleh ditukarkan dalam imej berwarna. Teruja sekejap apabila melihat gambar-gambar lama tersebut kelihatan hidup.
A U.S. Marine reaches through the barbed wire of a civilian containment area to give a young Japanese boy candy during the Battle of Tinian. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Princess Elizabeth doing her part for the war effort serving as an ambulance driver for the Auxiliary Territorial Service during – World War II, 1945 Edited by RJM support him here: https://www.facebook.com/colourbyRJM/ and at his website: https://www.colourbyrjm.co.uk/Albert Einstein at home in Princeton, New Jersey, 1940 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Pablo Picasso wearing a hat and holding a revolver & holster given to him by Gary Cooper – Cannes, 1958. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/A soldier of the 1st US Army, among debris inside the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, Germany April, 1945. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Charlie Chaplin in 1916, at the age of 27 Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Tower Bridge under construction, London 1889. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. They are, among others: Albert Einstein, Marie S. Curie, and Niels Bohr. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Claude Monet, French artist and a leading member of the Impressionist group of painters. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/
Star Wars cast out of costumes : Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2). cca 1977 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/A rare look behind the clockface of the Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) ca. 1920. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Charlie Chaplin in “Shoulder Arms” – 1918 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881. Edited by Marina Amaral for her book “The Colour of Time” support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza, between 1867 and 1899. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/A 32-year-old mother of 7 children called Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California. February 1936. (Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange). Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/The Great Pyramid, Sunset, c.1920s Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/1918. Oklahoma’s Fort Sill – the burial place of the Native American, Geronimo – housed static kite balloons, inflated with hydrogen such as this one. The balloons were deployed for the observation of artillery attacks, and were secured with guiding cables by groups of ground staff. Six troops were killed in the accident captured here on camera, at Henry Post Field at the Fort. The hydrogen in a balloon was ignited by a what is believed to have been a static electricity charge, created as the folds of the balloon fabric were rubbed together. Thirty more troops were injured. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/Wilbur Wright pilots a full-size glider in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on October 10, 1902. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/US Marine running through Japanese fire on Okinawa, Japan, 7 Jun 1945Inventor John Archibald Purves tests his Dynasphere at Weston-super-Mare in 1932, Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/1896. The “Street of Gamblers,” Chinatown, San Francisco. Two men and one woman on board the American brig Eagle were the very first Chinese immigrants to San Francisco. From 1849, Chinese people were drawn by the laboring opportunities for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, as well as the California Gold Rush – though racial discrimination was pronounced and enshrined in law, culm… See more
1910, “11 a.m. Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. St. Louis, Missouri.” As a photographer working for social reform, Lewis Hine found a number of advantages in photographing “newsies” – boys who sold newspapers on street. Unlike the work he did photographing child workers in mines, factories and mills, Hine could photograph the boys without either seeking … See more1900, Mulberry Street was at the very centre of Manhattan’s Little Italy, an ethnic neighborhood that followed from the mass immigration to New York of Italians after the 1880s. By the turn of the twentieth century, nine out of ten people in the Fourteenth Ward of Manhattan had an Italian background. Mulberry Street itself took its name from the Mulberry trees that grew around Mulberry Bend – the … See more1933. A “Hooverville” shantytown in Central Park, New York. The Great Depression that followed the stock market crash of October 1929 saw massive rates of joblessness and homelessness across the United States. People without jobs were people without the means to pay rent. Suddenly, civic lodging houses built for the homeless were filling up to capacity. Shanty towns – some housing as many as 15,00… See moreWinston Churchill & Charlie Chaplin, on the set of “City Lights” – 24 Sep. 1929 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Charlie Chaplin attends the premiere of his newest film City Lights in Los Angeles, accompanied by Albert Einstein. February 2, 1931. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Orville Wright flying a glider over the dunes of North Carolina, 1902. Edited by Marina Amaral for her book “The Colour of Time” support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/The Golden Gate Bridge under construction in 1934. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/The ‘Mississippi Burning’ Murders – Martin Luther King holds up photos of the three young civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi the previous summer. – Dec. 4, 1964 in New York City. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland’s World War II ruins while shooting a portrait in Warsaw, November 1946. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/c. 1904. A ride at Coney Island’s Luna Park. When Frederic Thompson and Elmer Dundy built their A Trip To The Moon ride for an exposition in Buffalo, New York State in 1901, they had a hit on their hands. The centerpiece of the ride was an airship powered by wings which flapped, named Luna. Moving the ride to Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park for 1902, Thomson and Dundy then leased more land and cr… See moreTolstoy – Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time, 1908. Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals to attend an all-white school, 1960. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Parks & Martin Luther King – Montgomery, Alabama. cca 1955 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Paratroopers of Easy Company (Band of Brothers), at Berghof (Adolf Hitler’s home in the Bavarian Alps), 1945. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/1918, Celebrations on Wall Street, New York following the surrender of Germany. This picture is almost what it seems – but not quite. We know the exact moment this picture was taken, 1:52 PM on Thursday November 7th, 1918 – four days before the end of World War One. The premature report of the end of the Great War originated in a casual lunchtime conversation between Admiral Henry Wilson, commande… See more1882, Workers build the Statue of Liberty inside French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s workshop, Paris. The idea for the Statue of Liberty was Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s. The Parisian sculptor wanted to create a gift for the US nation in the wake of the abolition of slavery – referenced in the broken chain at the feet of the statue. Construction commenced in 1877, and Bartholdi brought in engineer Gustave Eiffel to help with the statue’s inner framework. In 1885, the completed statue was shipped to America, assembled and dedicated the following year. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/Unpacking the Mona Lisa at the end of World War II in 1945Sumi and Sada Tamura, daughters of Mr. Teijiro Tamura, former Third Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in the United States in Washington, D.C, 1925. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/Salvador Dali standing on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York City – 1936 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Burning F6F-5 Hellcat white 23 from VF-9 USS Lexington (CV-16) – 25 Feb 1945 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/The beach and Cliff House, San Francisco, circa 1902. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/The liberation of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/People arriving at the Chicago Theater in 1949, taken by 21 year old Stanley Kubrick on assignment for Look magazine. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/June 6th, 1944: Into the Jaws of Death Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/1917. Soldiers of the 164th Depot Brigade form a service flag at Fort Riley in Kansas. Arthur Mole achieved some renown as a photographer of patriotic American images such as this – though by birth, Mole was actually British. Still, he directed his photographic attention to US military bases and installations during the First World War, seeking to build up a sense of patriotic fervor and enthusias… See morec.1930.An overhead view of people on 36th St. between 8th and 9th Aves, New York. Manhattan’s Garment District has been the center of the American fashion industry since at least the turn of the twentieth century – in 1900, New York City’s garment trade was its largest industry by a factor of three. The entire fashion ecosystem, from fabric suppliers to designer showrooms, exists within an area ju… See moreJuly, 1937. Portrait of Art Hodes, Kaiser Marshall, Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Sandy Williams, and Cecil (Xavier) Scott, Times Square, New York. Although born in the Ukraine, Jazz pianist Art Hodes was brought up in Chicago, and spent most of his career in “The Windy City”. Hodes became known for the Chicago Jazz style, but in order to find success, he had had to move to New York, in 1938. Here, Hodes … See more“Adoration of a President-to-Be” – Newly engaged John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Bouvier – Cape Cod, July 4th 1953 Edited by Jecinci, support him here: https://jecinci.com/Ice grotto in Antarctica, 1911. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/1936. Florence Thompson with one of her children, Watsonville, California. Thompson was only 32 in this picture by Dorothea Lange, an outtake from the photo session which generated the iconic “Migrant Mother” image. Born in 1903 in what was then Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, her parents were displaced Native American Cherokees. Marrying at 17, she and her husband began a family in Califo… See moreA US soldier stands amid crates and stacks of loot stored by Nazi Germany in Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Bavaria, 1945. Edited by Marina Amaral, support her here https://www.facebook.com/marinamaralarts/ and at https://marinamaral.com/Watching the boat races, Palm Beach, Miami in 1906.Powerhouse mechanic working on a steam pump, 1920. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/A Douglas SBD “Dauntless” dive bomber balances on its nose after crash landing on a carrier flight deck in the Pacific, 1943. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/The “Empire State Express” (New York Central Railroad) passes through Washington Street, Syracuse, New York, 1905. Edited by Jordan Lloyd, support the artist at https://dynamichrome.com/
Tidak rugi pun seandainya setiap orang berusaha mengambil inisiatif untuk mempelajari dan menguasai bahasa-bahasa utama di dunia. Bahasa merupakan suatu elemen yang penting dalam kehidupan. Manusia menggunakan bahasa sebagai medium untuk berkomunikasi, sama ada secara langsung atau bertulis.
Menurut kajian pakar bahasa, terdapat lebih 6,500 bahasa di seantero dunia ini. Namun kajian yang dijalankan oleh NVTC dan Foreign Service Institute, antara banyak-banyak bahasa yang ada di dunia, Bahasa Jepun adalah bahasa yang paling sukar untuk dipelajari oleh sekumpulan penceramah yang memahami Bahasa Inggeris. Diikuti Bahasa Arab, Bahasa Mandarin, dan kemudian Bahasa Korea.
Tetapi kalau diikutkan di negara kita, Bahasa Arab dan Bahasa Mandarin ramai yang berjaya menguasainya dengan begitu baik.
Kalau anda individu yang dapat menguasai 4 bahasa paling susah ini, kira memang anda ‘power ‘ la! Kelebihan menguasai bahasa asing boleh dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya dalam alam pekerjaan. Kelebihan tersebut membolehkan individu itu menceburkan diri dalam kerjaya seperti penterjemah atau sebagai jurubahasa dalam bidang kehakiman mahupun sektor pelancongan. Gaji jangan cakap la, orang luar yang mahir bertutur dalam bahasa tempatan memang sentiasa mendapat permintaan.
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Teringin nak rasa tinggal di rumah selebriti terkenal?
Rumah agam milik aktor ternama Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan dan pasangannya Gauri di New Delhi, India bakal dijadikan rumah penginapan menerusi kempen ‘Home With Open Arms’.
Rumah agam Shah Rukh Khan yang pernah menerima anugerah Datuk dari kerajaan Melaka, sekali gus menjadikan kediaman milik pasangan popular itu sebagai selebriti Bollywood pertama yang menghoskan rumah penginapan melalui Airbnb.
Menerusi kempen itu, orang ramai berpeluang menyertai pertandingan bagi merebut peluang untuk merasai pengalaman yang turut dijadualkan oleh Gauri yang juga merupakan seorang pereka hiasan dalaman. Kediaman yang direka sendiri oleh Gauri terletak di Panchsheel Park di Selatan Delhi. Pasangan itu kini menetap di Mumbai dan sering menggunakan kediaman di Delhi ketika melawat di bandar tersebut.
Ini antara perkara menarik yang akan berlaku untuk pemenang kempen ini yang dijadualkan berlaku pada 13 Februari 2021:
Ketika menginap di kediaman pasangan itu, pemenang yang bertuah juga akan berpeluang menikmati makanan kegemaran aktor tersebut dan menonton bersama filem yang dilakonkannya.
Pemenang yang bertuah juga akan menerima barangan peribadi keluarga tersebut sebagai cenderamata untuk dibawa pulang.
Ketika menginap di kediaman pasangan itu, pemenang yang bertuah juga akan berpeluang menikmati makanan kegemaran aktor tersebut dan menonton bersama filem yang dilakonkannya.
Untuk menyertai, orang ramai khasnya warganegara India perlu berkongsi apa makna ‘open arms welcome’ kepada mereka sebelum tarikh akhir pertandingan pada 30 November 2020. Pemenang akan diumumkan pada 15 Disember 2020 nanti.
TV Sarawak (TVS) sekali lagi tampil dengan program baharu yang menjanjikan pengalaman penuh warna-warni dan sarat dengan elemen budaya serta keindahan alam semula jadi.‘Sumandak...