• Adventure,  Photojournalism,  Travel

    Travel and Photography | Winter in Saint Petersburg

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Winter in Saint Petersburg | Russia “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck – I choose to travel to Russia in winter for a reason, I know that the best time to visit Russia or any four season country is during summer, that’s when most of the tourist flocking into the city and summer is consider as a high season in tourism industry, and that’s why most of the times you really can’t get cheap air travel ticket for traveling and in some places the hotel price will goes up because the demand is…

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    Travel | The Beautiful Moscow Metro Museum of Art

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Beautiful Moscow Metro Stations | All Photographs Taken With Fujifilm X100T The Moscow Metro dates back to 1931, when its construction began, although engineers Pyotr Balinsky and Evgeny Knorre submitted their first designs to the Moscow City Duma as far back as 1902. On May 15, 1935, 18 years after the Bolshevik revolution, the Metro threw open its doors and carried its first passengers down its escalators and on to its new wagons with padded seats. The first Metro line – running from Sokolniki to Dvorets Sovetov (now Kropotkinskaya) – was 11km (seven miles) long and had 13 stations. The Metro now has a track…

  • Adventure,  Travel

    Life is a Journey | Life is Like a Train Ride

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Trans-Mongolian Train Chugging Along The Famous Lake Baikal Of Siberia | Russia It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board. As you pass through life, pay attention to the signs and stations; if you don’t like the scenery, pull the emergency…

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    Kembara Trans-Siberian Railway | Checklist Barang-Barang Keperluan Semasa Di Dalam Keretapi

    Sebelum saya tulis selanjutnya saya hendak beritahu di sini bahawa tiada train bernama  Trans-Siberian, TRANS-SIBERIAN bukanlah nama sebuah kereta api, namun begitu ada kereta api khas untuk para pelancong, saya sebut untuk pelancong tidak bermakna penduduk tempatan Russia tidak boleh guna, tetapi kereta api ini khas untuk bersiar-siar sebab perlu ambil secara pakej, harganya juga tersangat mahal. Kereta api tersebut ialah Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express. Jika kita pilih kereta api mewah ni, tak perlu nak fikir soal makan dan minum, ianya ibarat menaiki sebuah hotel mewah yang bergerak. Trans-Siberian Railway itu bermaksud jaringan ataupun perjalanan keretapi merentasi Siberia, walaupun kita tidak menaiki keretapi hingga ke Beijing dari Moscow atau hingga…

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    Pengalaman Merentasi Siberia Dengan Keretapi | Trans-Siberian Railway

    © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Train K04 (Trans-Mongolian) Leaving Irkutsk Station To Beijing © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Trans-Siberian Railway Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”  – Ernest Hemingway – “Cermin, Ya. Tak salah jika orang bilang hidup itu adalah sebilah cermin. Dunia di matamu sesungguhnya adalah cerminan dari hatimu sendiri. Caramu memandang dunia adalah caramu memandang diri. Jika dunia penuh kebencian dan musuh ada di mana-mana, sesungguhnya itu adalah produk dari hatimu yang dibalut kebencian.” – Agustinus Wibowo – Apa yang kita cari dalam hidup berbeza-beza dengan orang lain, minat kita juga berbeza-beza. Amat…