Recently I had took off to Saudi Arabia under travel agent Andalusia (Malaysia) for my umrah (a smaller, shorter and simpler form of Haj, if I may say so). The package we took would take us to Jordan first before flying to Jeddah, from where the travel to Medina resumed by bus. After a few days (usually 2 - 3 days), the group would then embarked to Mecca by bus, stopping at Bir Ali prior entering Mecca. After the completion of umrah, the group flew back to Jordan for some spiritual Islamic tour before finally returning to Malaysia.
And so, the journey kick - started from KLIA where we took MAS to Bangkok, our transit before boarding on Royal Jordan airline.
Sky view, MAS. I was lucky to get window seat throughout the whole travelling time.Bangkok airport was quite pleasant during the day but as night approached, it got really, freaking COLD. Our Jordan plane was due in 3 hours so I wandered around first to explore the place.
Ethnic art deco.
Some shrine - like deco. Nothing much, just a nice - looking light bulb under that roof.
Turned out that my exploration came in handy because later there was an annoucement of flight delay. Royal Jordan decided to take its own sweet time and would only land in Bangkok tomorrow morning. A 10 hours delay was a common occurance with Royal Jordan, no big surprise, according to those experienced flyers.
At least there are many cafes for you to spend the flight - delay compensation vouchers that the airport authority issued out, Burger King one of them. It was difficult to find a place to eat though since most cafes serve pork in their menu but there is one eatery on level 2 and 3 that claimed to serve halal food. Mostly we bought drinks, chocolates and plant products.
As mentioned, it was freaking cold at night so a sweater is a good idea if you are going to be stuck in Bangkok airport at night. I was more than glad to leave Bangkok airport by then.
Is there no other flight option rather than taking the royal jordan airline? So you when there with you whole family?
ReplyDeleteI guess when you fly to Jordan, the main flier would be Royal Jordan. But this was arranged by my travel agent, maybe there are better options.
ReplyDeleteAnd yup, I went there with my whole family.