Though angan-angan nak main hotel hollywood ride dah ke laut, kebahagiaan kami tidak tersekat. We were ready for St Moritz. Pak cik Roberto yang bekerja di Europa Camping once made this joke "St Moritz, Lugano... Do you have more expensive places to go?" Menurut celoteh pak cik tu, those two places memang kawasan orang kaya-kaya. We just go to take photographs and enjoy the sightseeing panaroma. That morning, Atikah prepared us curry and chicken flavoured instant noodles for breakfast. After getting stuffy, dengan perasaan gembiranya kami meneruskan perjalanan ke St Moritz. Perjalanan mengambil masa selama 2 jam setengah dengan distance about 120km. Suppose kalau kat Malaysia, 120km tu boleh buat sejam je. Tapi, since jalan kat Switzerland ni berliku-like especially apabila mendaki gunung, tekanan kuat ke atas accelerator kereta bukanlah sesuatu perkara yang diidamkan kami though Ammar dah lama nak feeling2 drift Ferrari kat Switzerland.
The route to St Moritz memang berliku-liku. Memang sepanjang perjalanan tu, semua dok berzikir je supaya selamat sampai. Mana tak nya, kereta sewa kecil je, tapi dok lenjan macam four wheeled drive. Kesian la fiat punto tu kan... Tapi mata dan hati sangat happy la bila tengok keindahan alam di sekeliling kami. Macam berada di alam fantasi la orang kata. Subhanallah... Allah itu cantik dan suka akan kecantikan. Hebatnya ciptaan alam; gunung ganang berpuncak salji, padang hijau yang luas, awan putih di langit biru dan udara yang nyaman.
Seperti biasa, bila x de benda nak buat, people tend to sleep in the car. Buat co-pilot, though macam mengantuk, kena la jugak tahan sebab kang ke laut pulak pilot bawa kereta.
Sesampainya di sebuah tasik biru di pertengahan perjalanan, everyone awoke and terus keluar tangkap gambar. Macam-macam pose lah semasing kan... Yang bajet ayu, yang melompat, yang cover macho, semualah.
Dah puas bergambar tepi tasik, we continued the journey menempuhi jalan yang berliku dan mendaki selekoh tajam. Since St Moritz ni destinasi tangkap muat, tak de homework pasal attraction kat situ pon yang dibuat. So, teragak tengok tempat tu lawa, kitorang pon singgah. And again, we stopped nearby a lake. Kat sebelah kiri ada church and pony horses and sungai biru yang mengalir terus ke dalam tasik, kanan ada hotel, depan ada tasik dan gunung. Memang cantik.
Dalam perjalanan menuju ke heidi hutte, kitorang terjumpa satu butik prada yang besar, siap ada tangga prada lagi. Daki punya daki, tiba-tiba dah ada kat puncak gunung. Kira satu level dah dengan cable car yang bawa orang ski kat puncak tu. Sempat juga lah kitorang main buaian atas gunung, feeling bollywood kejap. Nasib baik tak de selendang je. Kalau tak, dah abes semua orang berdancing.
Since tak jumpa-jumpa heidi hutte and kononnya nak tengok pemandangan pokok pine, dengan kuasa penunjuk arah yang terletak di tangan co-pilot, I decided to use the right route untuk turun dari gunung tersebut. Malangnya jalan tersebut tidak menepati piawaian and still under construction. Sebabkan jalan yang sepatutnya telah pon ditutup, dengan arahan GPS, kitorang pon lalu unpaved road. Tanpa disedari, kitorang terjumpa seekor kancil yg sedang memandang tepat ke arah kereta. Lama kancil tu tenung. Orang kata bijak macam kancil sebab kancil ni lincah and sukar dilihat and ditangkap. Alhamdulillah rezeki kami dapat jumpa kancil liar seekor...
Makin dalam kami tempuh, makin pelik laluan unpaved route tu. Dah namanya unpaved route, suppose kuda and hiker je yang lalu. Ni kitorang belasah naik kereta, dah sepanjang perjalanan tu berzikir hebat... Bila dah jumpa jalan besar, tiba-tiba jalan tutup pulak. Agak-agak la nak pusing jalan tadi balik, kan? So, Ammar pon cabut tiang penanda construction to make a space for the car to go through. Menghela nafas lega la masing-masing... Pheww. Taubat tak nak masuk such road dah.
So we finished ekspedisi St Moritz in the morning and went back to the cabin for lunch and power shower. Wujudkah istilah power shower ek? Haha. Sebabkan panas waktu summer, I showered la. Tak de guna air panas pon. Actually to have hot shower at that camping site, you have to purchase a token worth 70cents which lasts for 5 minutes. But, you can switch on and off the power while soaping your body. The concept is economical and energy saving. Ammar by then tempted to go into the small beach by the lake. However, by second thought, he denied that urge to retain energy to drive for the rest of the day. After loading our stuffs, we said goodbye to Uncle Roberto and thanked him for having us.
The clock showed 1 o'clock in the afternoon which meant that we were a bit behind the schedule. We were supposed to depart to Geneva during the second half of the day. But I already told Ammar to bring us to Swissminiature. Dah macam redha tak pergi pon sebab dah lambat. Tapi dah Ammar cakap boleh pergi and still had time, we went.
The student price to get into Swissminiature is 13 franc. We spent about an hour and half visiting all 112 miniatures symbolysed buildings all over Switzerland. I was the only one who was a little bit too excited with this theme park. I remembered when I was at Brussels, I persuaded everyone to bring me to Bruepark which displays buildings in the whole Europe.
Finished being a child, Ammar dropped us at Lugano railway station and he drove Fiat Punto to Como like ferrari. 45 minutes drive had then become 38 minutes because of that. We had to return the car back in Italy to avoid huge sum of money as crossing the border of the country. I just couldn't accept it as they are obviously under the same company and under the same European Union. Why don't they charge the same rate to return the car at different location eventhough under the same administration. Haihh. I think Italy and Switzerland would never be a good friend in term of public transport as the fare across the border was too expensive. (Only my plain blind accusation. LOL).
Drama swasta petang tu sikit je la. Ammar sempat catched a train at 6:50 pm from Como tu Lugano which costed him only 8.50 euro. Of course, we shared the price la bila dah total up semua budget. Bajet nak buat surprise kat kitorang sebab mampu sampai awal than expected, tapi tak jumpa pulak. Hahaha. We thought he would be late, so we actually sempat berjalan-jalan sekitar Lugano and naik the funicular. Last-last Ammar buat-buat merajuk pulak sebab tak tunggu dia naik furnicular. Sorry Ammar. Hehe.
So, the next rent car was metallic grey Mazda 2 which costed us 180 CHF, with full covered insurance. Off we go to Geneva!
Having said that, we actually returned to our original plan, i.e. be at Geneva at particular date. We drove all the way to Geneva from Lugano at dusk and the scenery along the highway was pretty spectacular. Kalau dah namanya senja, memang dah pukul 9 malam lah. Yang penumpang, tetap lah terlena. Yang memandu, tetap lah gagah. We stopped at autogrill aka RnR la where Aqiedah had deep interest in. Tak tahu kenapa. (Obviously dah lupa, sebab masa entri ni ditaip pon dari yang dah kahwin pon, anak pon dah boleh berlari la, nak katanya lapuk nya cerita ni. Hahaha). From this point, the co-pilot had changed, i.e from Nabilah to Aqiedah.
Drama swasta petang tu sikit je la. Ammar sempat catched a train at 6:50 pm from Como tu Lugano which costed him only 8.50 euro. Of course, we shared the price la bila dah total up semua budget. Bajet nak buat surprise kat kitorang sebab mampu sampai awal than expected, tapi tak jumpa pulak. Hahaha. We thought he would be late, so we actually sempat berjalan-jalan sekitar Lugano and naik the funicular. Last-last Ammar buat-buat merajuk pulak sebab tak tunggu dia naik furnicular. Sorry Ammar. Hehe.
So, the next rent car was metallic grey Mazda 2 which costed us 180 CHF, with full covered insurance. Off we go to Geneva!
Having said that, we actually returned to our original plan, i.e. be at Geneva at particular date. We drove all the way to Geneva from Lugano at dusk and the scenery along the highway was pretty spectacular. Kalau dah namanya senja, memang dah pukul 9 malam lah. Yang penumpang, tetap lah terlena. Yang memandu, tetap lah gagah. We stopped at autogrill aka RnR la where Aqiedah had deep interest in. Tak tahu kenapa. (Obviously dah lupa, sebab masa entri ni ditaip pon dari yang dah kahwin pon, anak pon dah boleh berlari la, nak katanya lapuk nya cerita ni. Hahaha). From this point, the co-pilot had changed, i.e from Nabilah to Aqiedah.
Aqiedah berusaha membaca map though it was her first time. Nabilah and Atikah slept at the back while aqiedah stayed awake to entertain Ammar. Hati Ammar dah tidur, tapi Ammar dengan degilnya meneruskan perjalanan kerana perjalanan itu sememangnya mencabar dengan keadaan geografi yang bergunung-ganang. Sesiapa yang minat Initial-D, memang korang akan minat la route ni. Kitorang yang dah tertidur kat belakang ni siap terjaga lah balik demi keselamatan bersama-sama. Kitorang perasan kot kereta dah ke kiri ke kanan. Aishhh.
And the next day i.e 14 June 2013 already started. That means, dah seharian jugak lah Ammar ni bersengkang mata. Dalam kegelapan malam, when I actually checked the map provided by the rental service, memang kitorang tengah melepasi sempadan tiga negara. Kejap masuk France, kejap masuk Switzerland, kejap masuk Italy. Tak tahu lah sistem highway tu macam mana, tapi memang macam tu la nampaknya di atas map.
We finally stopped at a border of France and Switzerland. Ammar memang out terus bila enjin kereta mati. He slept for two hours at the back seat. Mula-mula Atikah duduk at the other end of the car. Mamat tu bila dah pengsan tak ingat apa dah. Bajet tidur kat katil rumah sendiri la konon, sampai tersepak Atikah. Atikah terkejut, terus duduk dekat co-driver seat. Berhimpit lah sikit kitorang kat depan. Tapi, tak pe lah. Sekejap je pon.
Tak lama kemudian, Fajar pon menyinsing, tanda masuknya waktu Subuh. Sebabkan in the middle of no where, memang facilities pon tak berapa nak friendly la. Ada ke dia kunci toilet atas gunung tu. Damn. Nasib baik lah stok air mineral ada. Guna je lah apa yang ada. Sejuk wehhhh. Menggigil-gigil berwudhu'. Bila selesai berwudhu', baru lah perasan yang kitorang sebenarnya berada di hadapan Mont Blanc. Puncak Mont Blanc tu masih bersalji lagi, so memang sejuk lah.
Usai berehat, we drove through the Mont Blanc tunnel sejauh 12 km and paid 41 euro toll. Keluar dari tunnel tu actually dah France. Pernah dengar nama tempat Chamonix? Haaa bawah dari exit tunnel tu, bandar Chamonix lah. Actually, we confused jugak ada dekat negara mana. Jalan depan sikit dah Switzerland. Tadi, masuk Italy, pastu rasa macam kat Switzerland. But, yeah. Pemandangan memang snagat awesome. Nampak Chamonix di lembah Pergunungan Alps, air terjun semulajadi dalam suasana pagi yang berkabus pada ketinggian 1420 m dari paras laut. Subhanallah... Selesai bergambar, menggedik di depan Mont Blanc Tunnel, we continued driving to Geneva Airport where we actually needed to change our car (again).
Upon our arrival, Ammar sambung tidur. We, the girls boarded onto a free shuttle bus to Geneve Airport (we actually parked at car rental parking). Kononnya nak mandi la. Tengok-tengok kena bayar 15 CHF, memang tak ah. Semua just salin baju, cuci muka je. Nanti sampai Lucerne baru mandi (hati-hati tengah mengomel). Selesai Ammar pon bersiap beberapa ketika, we walked to Europcar counter to settle for next car. Menyirap pulak rasanya dengan unfair treatment yang diberikan. We were like the first customer registered there, yet we were last to be served. Katanya system down. Heh??? Inefficient pulak kakak ni. Nak pinjam web pocket je pon. Awat yang complicated nye pon tak tau. Walaupun dah bengang tunggu sampai sejam tapi apa pon tak dapat, Ammar pon tak mampu nak marah. Penat drive pon tak hilang lagi.
So, bermula lah perjalanan sebenar kami yang mengikut schedule asal. Pusing-pusing Switzerland!
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