From Dumai to Jakarta

We went for a short holiday to Indonesia recently and here are our travel notes.

May 27, 2008 - Shah Alam to Dumai

We left Shah Alam at about 6:00 am and reached Melaka Port at about 8:30 am. We still chose Melaka as it is less crowded and the time on ferry would be only about 2 hours compared to 4 hours if we were to go from Port Klang to Dumai.

On the ferry, we managed to watch a funny Malay movie called Duyung that kept us awake throughout the whole trip so that we could watch over Pasha, who decided not sleep, at the same time.

May 28, 2008 - Dumai to Jakarta

We took an afternoon flight from Dumai to Jakarta. Pasha did not get a seat like the previous trip since Pelita Air has numbered seats unlike AirAsia. So, he had to sit on our laps for the 2 hours 45 minutes flight.

Here are photos of Pasha and Mama Diah on the plane. Pasha refused to be seated throughout the flight and he insisted to be let loose to walk along the aisle from front to the back of the Fokker 100. He would cry and scream if we were to stop him and to cool him down we took turn to accompany him from the front to the back of the plane while he greeted all the seated passengers.

May 29, 2008 - Jet Lag in Jakarta

Here is a photo of Pasha and Papa Bear having a jet lag... The next photo is Pasha playing with his Mickey Mouse puppet before leaving for Taman Safari in Bogor. That will be in the next update.

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Trip to Aquaria KLCC

Here are photos taken during our trip to Aquaria on 15th March 2008.

There were lots of visitors on that day being a weekend and on a school holiday.

The right most picture above you can see Pasha trying to grab a turtle but we managed to stop him since those turtles can bite off his fingers...

The place was so pack with people and yet Pasha was already feeling sleepy. Could it be that he was not really interested in those animals or the lighting was putting him to the sleep mode...

And Pasha was more interested in looking at his own reflection on the aquarium rather than what's inside it...

Pasha and his reflection, Pasha found something interesting at last and Pasha doing his face with Mama...

Pasha tried to grab some more turtles in one of the aquariums and a pose for the camera!

Mama and Pasha in front of the huge vertical aquarium and the last photo showing Pasha trying to explore the place by himself.

Here are some fish and Pasha with Grandma, Yana (his cousin) and Papa.

Look at those huge sharks!

More of Mama and Pasha and a pretty big turtle swimming along...

Mama, Pasha and a diver on the way to feed those sea creatures.

Feeding time at the Aquaria and we got to see that up close.

We finally managed to get Pasha into his stroller since it was not easy carrying a 10+ kg baby on our arms through the Aquaria.

A few final shots before the exit.

The end.

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Dumai Holidays - Part 5 - Going Home

The time has come has come for us to leave Dumai and back to our home in Shah Alam. Above are photos of Pasha and Mama at the Dumai jetty while waiting to board the ferry.

"That looks heavy..."

The ferry was fully booked that day and thank God they allowed people with babies to board first. if not, we might not even get a seat or seat together.

Pasha got really tired while waiting to board the ferry and not long after we got inside, that baby boy fell asleep. It was a long ride since a fully booked ferry would not sail that fast...

Pasha recharged quite fast, as usual, and only after about 30 minutes or so, he was already up and awake, ready to start exploring the whole ferry. However, we could never allow that anyway and he was up all the way through the rest of the journey back to Melaka.

That's all for now and hope that you have enjoyed reading about our trip.

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