As we enter Makkah area from Taif – the journey was getting slower – the long queue of buses and cars at few checkpoints took us hours to reach Masjidil Haram area – which on an ordinary day it would only take at most 1 hour. The bus stopped ~ 2km from  the Masjidil Haram area around 4.30am -and we walked out of the bus towards Haram that morning  but stopped for a while to get wudu’ in a mosque nearby.

The bus stop area

After 20 minutes walking we reached Haram and as expected the tawaf area around Kaabah was crowded with people doing the tawaf – we managed to sneak in and the groups splitted [it is almost impossible to do the tawaf in group with such crowd] . As we’re doing Hajj Ifrad – I did tawaf Qudum and Hajj Saie that day and completed both around 7.40am.

A photo of me and Halim just after the saie – we promised to meet at the exit of Marwah before leaving to the bus waiting area . Around 11am we reached the Mina camp area.

I heard about it, seen it and finally Allah gave the oppurtunity to experience the life in Mina Camp.

Among the first thing that I did is to find a place to charge my mobile and the GPS receiver which was dead.

The bed for me for this few days – Raznan’s place just next beside me.
We had “laham mandi” – Arabic rice with mutton that evening and alhamdulillah for the gift of food from Allah.
I had cough that night perhaps to do excessive Navel orange I ate that night, luckily I brought with me my favourite cough syrup – Exylin and slept better after that.