Leh Ladakh India Trip Day 1 : Departure

Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)

Day 1 - Delhi to Leh Flight. Check-in Guest House. Acclimatization day one.

The departures time at 1.00 am from Bandung, Husein Sastranegara Airport and arrived at IGI airport at about 9.00pm Indian time, after transit at KLIA for 3 hours and length of journey for 5 hours with Malindo Air, while Kak Nina depart from Changi with Singapore Airlines. Once arrived, I went to transmigration counter for taking care of Visa on Arrival and luckily I could meet Kak Nina there too. The procedures of Visa on Arrival is pretty simple, checking passport, e-visa printing or file, taking photo and biometric data, then you got stamp from the airport officer and it's become real visa. Me and Kak Nina just looking around first inside and discussing if we gonna stay inside T3 airport before transit to T1D but not realizing that we got outside the exit door, and, oh well we can't enter again. what?!?! hahahaa we were losing chance stay there. 

The first thing we noticed about Delhi is the weather. The weather outside the airport was so different from inside, it was hot and damn just like Jakarta's weather, but higher temperature. Lol. And well, we were considering to stay at nearest inn but we thought the time was very limited because we have to depart at the morning 6.00pm and it means we have to arrive at the domestic airport around 5.00pm. So we looking for other alternatives such as waiting chair (unfortunately it's full) and airport lounge (unfortunately it's expensive), hahahaha, so we just straight to nearest KFC in front of airport and getting dinner first, and of course Wi-Fi when unfortunately not available, oh well so unlucky of us. We also have difficulty for getting WiFi in airport, we must registered our local number, unfortunately again we don't have local number yet, coz we consider the price didn't worth it coz the coverage not reaching Leh and we only need it for one night transit in Delhi. So, yes that's the first problems we have encountered. So unlucky, huh, lol. Luckily after all those things, the KFC menu was not disappointed, and finally we stay there the whole night until we leave for next transit, going to the domestic terminal T1D for Delhi to Leh flight. 

Arrival

Outside

Our KFC Menu

Basically before we decided to stay at KFC, we also considered to stay at the Terminal 1D (T1D) of domestic airport, but after we asking around to local people and officers, they said that the domestic terminal was not recommended and poor to spend the night. However, once we arrived there after taking transit bus, the poor recommendation was very wrong indeed, it's pretty enough for us and more than good, than just outside the international terminal. Well at least there's lots of waiting chairs, not really available coz it's also almost full but yeah kinda enough for light sleep. However, instead of light sleep we were looking around to find money changer. We took a flight at 06.30 am the tomorrow morning from Delhi to Leh, the weather was kinda cloudy. The announcement speaker was not very clear so we almost getting left, but luckily we made it. Well, make sure you really pay attention for it because the announcement was hardly heard clearly. Another one thing, we found that the toilet front sign is so fancy, it makes you easy to find out in a glimpse which one for male and which one for female. We just couldn't stop laughing looking at those. Hahaha.

Another way to differentiate the toilet in a glimpse. lol.

PS: I was surprised finding out my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Delhi with Malindo Air turn out it was a business class because the price was economic standard, probably it was a promo or I was not looking more in detail, I was just surprised in a happy way of course, because it was my first time getting a business class. LOL. The funny thing is it happened accidentally, because yeah normally I won't purchase BC :))) Nice and comfortable, let alone the food, it was great.