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- Bandar Seri Begawan
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Brunei
Travel Blogs from Brunei
The joys of a warm shower and an updated budget!
Back in so-called civilization after the jungle adventures. A longboat ride of about forty minutes from the Medalam longhouse to Medamit where we got a proper rustbucket local bus on proper crap roads to Limbang - which is a proper town with a port. Our ...
We made it out of bali!!! we actually ...
... , and all the travelling. The last few weeks has felt like constant travelling, going on overnight buses, three day ships etc. Brunei is actually quite nice. The streets are wide and clean and there's no crowds or traffic anywhere. We visited the ...
Gunung Mulu National Park
Arriving in Miri we headed right away for Air Asia office to try and book flights and accomodations for Gunung Mulu National Park. We managed to get the last seats on a flight to Gunung Mulu but once we tried to book a room everything was ...
Kumpong Ayer Water Village
... fake goods and beautiful scarves. We bought some scarves and were tempted with some Vietnamese plates but I really wanted something from Brunei. Back at the Empire we decided to opt for high tea. Why is it that these English customs are ...
2 Tage Sultanat Brunei
Ich wollte immer schon mal nach Brunei. Hat mich irgendwie interessiert. Allerdings sagt Dir jeder, der da gewesen ist, daß man es sich sparen kann. Ich kann das nur bestätigen. Dafür, daß der Sultan mit 20 Millarden US-Dollar einer der reichsten ...
Brunei is pretty boring
... a bus ride to a shopping complex, known simply, as 'The Mall', we heard its huge, has the only traffic jam in Brunei as people leave each night, has a fantastic food court with many local culinary delights. Lets just say we were somewhat disappointed, ...
Brunei - and the magnificent Empire Hotel
Today we were off to Brunei, the small sultanate on the island of Borneo. We flew by Brunei Airways and I loved the touch of having a travel prayer on the TV monitors before we took off. I was hoping we wouldn't need it!The flight was only 25 minutes, ...
Crossing the boarder to Brunei
... and local restaurants are the same as what they would be in Malaysia,Nassi Lemak for example both 1rm and 1$B, making Brunei expensive. At the supermarket they have sandwich, potato salad, coleslaw, yogurt with fruit and chicken pasta with cheese. So ...
Welcome to Brunei
... but they are just so slow to respond etc that I got annoyed with mine and turned it off within the first half hour. Arriving in Brunei at 10am I went thru customs etc in about 15mins... 13 of which was just waiting to get my bag. It was 26 degrees when ...
Brunei
... I tried to explain to the taxi driver what I was looking for he had just the ticket... a YHA dorm room for only $10 Brunei a night!! That sounded excellent compared to a hotel room starting around B$60. The part I didnt like so much is the taxi driver ...
Brunei
... I tried to explain to the taxi driver what I was looking for he had just the ticket... a YHA dorm room for only $10 Brunei a night!! That sounded excellent compared to a hotel room starting around B$60. The part I didnt like so much is the taxi driver ...
Tea with the Sultan in Brunei
... government coffers! It has since been opened up to the public to generate some revenue and recuperate the construction costs. At 250BRD (Brunei dollars) a night, it was out of our price range to say the least, but they’re really great about letting ...
The Sultanate
... ; The stilt villages have everything a normal village would have, except it is all housed a few metres above the River Brunei's chocolate coloured waters. The houses, schools, mosques and all are interconnected with one another and the mainland by a ...
Beach hopping in Brunei
... places some at least should give it a try. I put on my swimsuit, and walk into the warm ocean. What a good feeling. Driving in Brunei is pretty simple. The country is small, you can cross it within less than 2 hours from east to west, and north to south ...
BSB is a silent capital
... is on the street. The answer was pretty simple. First: it is too hot to walk, and only stupid tourists and foreigner walk. Second: Brunei is relative rich, so almost everyone has a car and use the car. Even if they have to go 100 meter to catch something ...
Chilling in brunei last night
... . Today I got up around 8 I seem to be sleeping quite well pulling 7-8 hours of sleep. I got up and I changed some of my Brunei dollar into thai as I haven't needed it spent 200 over 3 nights 4days and 90 of that was on accom. Tho I haven't done much ...
Museum tour of Brunei
... London, Beijing, Paris or Washington? Maybe at Mr Mugawes country we can find one, who knows? The second museum was the Brunei Museum, because it should have a nice exibition of the Brunei Oil Industry. But unfortunately, the Oil business is closed to ...
Boattrip to Bangar
Day 2: Boattrip to Bangar in Temburong. Temburong is an enclave, divided by the main part of Brunei by a cut of Sarawak / Malaysia. To get there you have to cross Malaysia, or go by speedboat like I did. Bangar has not much to offer, is usually starting ...
Brunei och slutet på Borneo
... dock att vi var tvungna att göra någonting så vi bestämde oss för att avlägga en snabbvisit till sultanatet och pyttelandet Brunei. Vi bokade ett flyg och åkte nästa morgon. Bandar Seri Begawan heter Bruneis huvudstad, för de av er som inte ...
Free dinner last night!! Good bye Brunei
... and new!! I don't think I have seen a car that was made before umm year2000 Arive in Singapore 9th 1am nz time Good buy Brunei I could happly come back here would have loved to get out of the town a bit more but I think you need your own car buses ...
Riches (pl. noun) : Abundant Wealth by Judith
... lengthy wait we trundled past a strange mixture of huge mansions and dilapidated flats, the latter apparently being subsidised by Brunei's Sultan for his grateful subjects, before finally making it to the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB). Sandra claims ...
In, out, in, out, in, out, in, out, in, out
... Borneo-Malaysia (Sarawak in the West, Sabah in the East). Because of Sharia law, alcohol consumption is illegal, making Brunei is a dry country (although foreigners can bring in alcohol for there private consumption). Because of Brunei wealth, it offers ...
Brunei and goodbye
Bandar seri Begawan is hard to spell, hard to get to, and quite a weird place, but Bri and I enjoyed it quite a bit becuase it lived up to its name (the abode of peace) and was a good place to relax for a night. Everyone gets around by water ...
A day off
Our first and only switch-off day! Lazy breakfast, interrupted by the arrival of a group of macaques marauding around Vanessa's compound. They vandalise rubbish bins and anything left outside. It sounds exciting to outsiders; apparently quite frightening ...
In search of a Sultan!!
... next ferry, having caught up on email we then went and found some rather disgusting KFC before boarding the next ferry to Brunei, after another smooth crossing and a straight forward immigration process we were in Brunei. It was then a 40 minute ...
Brunei
I am in Bandar Seri Begawan, which is the capital of the Kingdom of Brunei. This is a very interesting and also quite strange place. The city seems really empty, almost deserted. There are a few cars on the roads, but very few people. It seems they ...
swimming and the boat trip
hello everyone i am now in bruni im in the capital well its serposed to be the capital of a very rich oil country but i think they are just rich as they havent spent much money on development there isent much to do here but the people are supper ...
Ausflug in Land des Reichen Sultans
... und am selben Tag noch nach Kota Kinabalu auf Borneo. Borneo ist aufgeteilt in einen malaysischen Teil, einen indonesische Teil und Brunei. Kota Kinabalu gehört zum malaysischen Teil und wir sind von hier aus mit dem Boot nach Brunei, was wesentlich ...