Brunei Hotel Bandar Seri Begawan

... Israelis are forbidden from entering Brunei since this is hardcore Islam here and the politics are aligned towards the middle east. One thing that strikes me is that even though the population is Phillipino, Malay and Chinese, signs are written in Arabic as well as Malay. I would be willing to wager that no one here is of Arabic descent or even speaks it but having this Arabic writing pleases someone somewhere I guess. <br><br>This capital, Bandar Seri ...

... confused and turned to Kevin to ask why the crocs would be scared off by the local people....she thought that is was likely because the local people hunted them and the crocs would recognize them. Kevin immediately shook his head and told the rest of the boat what she had said. They all had a good laugh until finally explaining that he had said motors and not locals. We had a crazy driver on the way back and needless to say it only took 35 minutes ...

The photos show how much we managed to achieve in the few hours we had here, not much.<br>Still, we got a nice feel for the city and got shooed out of a temple by Monks (the temple in all the pictures). We heard somewhere it was open to foreigners at the end of Ramadan, but it wasn't to be. <br>We made an admirable attempt to see the Sultan's palace which involved a long long walk only for us not to ...

... skills in parts. Not only that, but it takes five hours to get back down again and is even ********* the legs than on the way up. The driver from the tour company who had collected us from our hostel in Miri very helpfully recalled the time when he had taken a couple of climbers up to the Pinnacles in 1996 and one of them fell on the way down and subsequently died! Tracey had already decided that she would rather staple her eyelids to the floor than spend ...

... fancy looking bungalows, cut grass, life jackets on the boat and even a so called Survivor Bar at in the main house. Plus: electricity and running water, which we still consider luxurious.<br><br>We dipped straight into the Borneo jungle adventure by trekking through the jungle only to find a mud volcano. That basically is a mud bath right in the middle of the jungle, originating from methane gasses (or something similar) coming out of the earth. What was ...

... somewhere between 'Rapid Decompression' and 'D &amp; V'! (Watch this space for the full Top 100). The airport waiting room, I am glad to say, was an air-conditioned greenhouse, constantly battling against the ever intrusive outside air that would relentlessly attempt to gain access and subvert the conditioners realm. It would follow any unsuspecting passenger as they entered the terminal through the ever vigilant automatic doors. It would hide in their hand luggage, under hats and ...

... est de marbre, or, mosaique, marquetterie, bois sculte, tapis persan. Le hall d'entree de 6 etages avec fenestration (6 etages aussi) vue sur l'ocean bien sur. 3-4 picines avec plage artificielle et bien sur la vrai plage a cote!!!. Le tout dans le golf designer par Jack Nicklaus. Bon on a pu visiter les toilettes, comme a notre habitude. C'est notre piece favorite et c'est gratuit. On a planifier notre retour ...

... will you? Unless I get lazy, or don't make it back. The time of each dummy entry is the time I get into a particular region. Each region might result in multiple entries, depending on how interesting it is, or how much time I have to play on the interwebs.