Australia (Sydney) & NZ (South Island) Trip Preparation

We were actually plan to go to New Zealand South Island, but since there's no direct flight from KL to Christchurch, thus, we plan to transit in Sydney and stay few nights there (we never been to Sydney before). There are many other choices in selecting the Airline. But as we bring along our baby Hasya, we choose the best route that we can ~ more relaxing and bit wasting money by staying few nights in Sydney and Christchurch but it's ok. Nama pun pergi bercuti kan.. hehe.

In South Island New Zealand, we will travel away from city using Motorhome, from town to another town. We will hardly to find Halal food there, so have to cook and bring along the raw material from Malaysia (I can say more to instant food).

As usual we do prepare the checklist to ease the plan.  Here we share some of our checklist for the trip. 

Things to do :

1.  Booking our flight ticket (of coz)

2.  Hotel Booking (we booked from http://agoda.com)

3.  Plan for  Transport to airport (Airport transfer, or Cab, or Airport Shuttle, or someone to fetch/send) 

4.  Renew the PASSPORT (if expired)

5. Apply Australia Visa

6. Money Exchange - Currency AUD and NZD 

7. Send an email to the embassy (Australia & New Zealand)

8. Shopping cloth/baby carrier, Food and others (the hardest part as we don’t have much time to do it)

9. Web check-in (Flight)

10. Print - I ternary, Hotel and Flight 

11. Print/Download the solat (prayer) time from the internet  (for Muslim)

12. Food tagging 
12. Phone - bank & telco service provider informing that we're going overseas

13. Prepare Menu (for New Zealand motor home trip)

last but not least... PACKING!

Our list were as per below : 

Food

1.        MAGGI HOT CUP (5)

2.      LIFE TOMATO & CHILI SAUSE

3.      BRAHIM FRIED RICE KAMPUNG STYLE (2)

4.      BRAHIM BRIYANI MUTTON RICE

5.      BRAHIM BRIYANI CHICKEN RICE

6.      BRAHIM CHICKEN FRIED RICE

7.      TC BOY TUNA SARDIN (3)

8.     AYAM BRAND SARDINES IN TOMATO SAUSE

9.      FAIZA’S SUPER SPECIAL MOGHUL BASMATHI RICE

10.  Baby milk - S26 PROGRESS STEP 3 (1.2 Kg)

11.   Baby biscuit - BABY BITES ORIGINAL TASTE (2)

*copy paste from our food list as per attached to the box

Medicine & Supplement

• Paracetamol
• Stomach Medicine (Gastric & Food Poisoning)
• Medicine for Baby (Paracetamol, Cough & Flu Syrup, Anti-biotic)
• Vitamin C
• Nutriferon (to prevent cold)

We were advised to list down all the food, keep them into 1 box, and the printed list to be attached to the box. Please do not cheat. Heavy penalty up to NZD300 per item if got caught.

Others

• Prayer Mat & Compass solat
• International travel adaptor
• Camera & Phone (optional for roaming)
• Torch Light & phone/camera charger
• Lip balm
• Car inventer 150W (using Vehicle's cigarette lighter)
• Sabun taharah
• Multi-purpose Knife 
• Winter cloth (those yang tak tahan sejuk like me) or long wool cloth or thick sweater 
• Glove and socks
• Enough suitable cloth