Our journey actually started the day before from Barcelona, Spain. We spent the night at an F1 hotel (the French budget hotel) in a town near the border of Spain and France. We wanted to pass through the bridge in the morning. We wanted to see the awe - inspiring technology and experienced the flying like journey crossing the Tarn River Valley..... a drive through the sky. SubhanaAllah ...... it's amazing
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| Dari Barcelona singgah bermalam di F1Hotel di Perpignan, pagi bertolak ke Jambatan Millau, seterusnya ke Paris |
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| Dari pos sempadan Spain-France ke bandar Perpignan hanya 45 min ....inilah yang kami ingat ketika mencari lokasi hotel F1 (border town) Pin merah adalah Jambatan Millau, tempat yang dituju |
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| Tidak pasti di mana hotel ini |
Dalam kembara ini kami banyak menginap di hotel Formule 1 (kini dikenali sebagai hotel F1). Ia merupakan rangkaian hotel bajet "super-economy" yang dimiliki oleh kumpulan Accor. Jenama ini berasal dari Perancis dan terkenal dengan konsep penginapan yang ringkas, bersih, dan pada harga yang sangat berpatutan.
(maklumat dari AI)
Pada April 2006, hotel Formule 1 berada di kemuncak popularitinya sebagai jenama "super-economy" utama Accor sebelum ia dijenamakan semula kepada hotel F1 pada tahun berikutnya.
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| ... ada bunk bed kan? |
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| ..... dan ada tv kecil di situ |
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| Ini adalah hotel F1 di Perpignan terkini ... ....sumber foto dari Mr Google |
| approaching the bridge ...... |
| .....a drive through the sky .... |
| the bridge is behind us now ....... Millau, France 2006 |
| Ashraf and Millau Bridge , France 2006 |
Kausar and Millau de viaduct, France 2006
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News from AP Associated Press,
14 Dec 2004, Millau France
Piercing the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, a roadway bridge hailed as the tallest in the world was officially inaugurated Tuesday.
Celebrated as a work of art and an object of French national pride, the Millau bridge will enable motorists to take a drive through the sky — 891 feet above the Tarn River valley for 1.6-mile stretch through France’s Massif Central mountains.
Designed by British architect Norman Foster, the steel-and-concrete bridge with its streamlined diagonal suspension cables rests on seven pillars — the tallest measuring 1,122 feet, making it 53 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower.
The bridge, which has an airy and fluid appearance, was designed to have the “delicacy of a butterfly,” Foster said in an interview with regional daily newspaper Midi Libre.
“A work of man must fuse with nature. The pillars had to look almost organic, like they had grown from the earth,” said Foster, who also designed London’s Millennium Bridge.
At 2.4km long, and 270m above the river at its highest point, the Millau viaduct spans a 2km valley in the Massif Central mountain range and forms the final link in the A75 highway from Paris to Barcelona. Despite its huge length, journey time over the structure is expected to be just one minute.
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| Barcelona is 832 km from Paris and about 9-10 hrs driving. Millau is about 400 km from Barcelona. |










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