Raya Di Perantauan (2019)

By Anwar - January 30, 2020

Assalammualaikum, today i would like to tell my experience celebrating Hari Raya Aidilfitri at oversea which was New Zealand.

So that is our first picture of the New Zealand (nz) trip.Main purpose we went to nz because my sister (which is the first from left) graduated in her Diploma Tourism and Management course in Queenstown,New Zealand.So the date of her graduation is in the same month of Hari Raya which was second of hari raya.

(sorry this the only photo i have)

So we flew with the China Eastern plane and we transit at Pudong,Shanghai international airport.We waited there two hours for our next flight to nz.The flight took 5 hours from KLIA to Pudong and 11 hours from Pudong to Auckland,New Zealand.

So we landed in Auckland, and had our break fast at the airport which was KFC.KFC is the only fast food that we can eat easily because my sister told that the brand of the chicken made by the company is guaranteed Halal. We arrived at nz just 4 days before hari raya.

We arrived at Queenstown with this fascinating view.Masyallah.Few days before raya.

We performed our hari raya prayers at the Queenstown church.Some people might say,why we doing our prayers at the church.So the man who run the church let the Islamic Community in queenstown to rent the church to perform our hari raya prayers.The community there are so nice and they were very respectful.

This the picture of my family(not full quarom) after finished the hari raya prayers.I experienced the feeling when recite raya takbir, usually do that in malaysia and that time i was at oversea.

This photo taken after the graduation ceremony ended.

We also managed to do open house at our air bnb house that we rent.Yet,somehow we survived that event by just serving some macaroni with plain soup,some rendang chicken and few carbonated drinks.

We also got a chance to visit the Al Noor mosque located at Christchurch,New Zealand.This mosque where the shooting incident happened on 15th March 2019 which killed 51 people on that day.

Those are the pictures that i managed to put in this blog for my two weeks Raya di perantauan experienced.Hope u guys enjoy it :).