Capital Hotel Bandar Seri Begawan

Is Michael Jackson the patron saint of Malaysian air travel or something? I'm just thinking out loud here now. Man in the Mirror is one of the songs Air Asia is playing during boarding and let me set this up properly for you. To call the boarding process laborious, boisterous and slow would be an understatement with no one knowing how to match the seat number on their boarding card to the actual physical product inside the plane. Add to that constant shouting as ...

We arrived in Brunei all tired and grumpy, not expecting alot from the airport we were pleasantly suprised to find it ok! As we went into the transit lounge there where staff offering to take us on a tour of the city, First tour was free and was 2 hours long, another tour was 4 hours long and $60 so we opted for the free tour! <br><br>After a coffee to wake us up we meet the group at 11am and found the ...

... get to the ferry terminal.<br>Luckily it was only a block away. Not so lucky was the fact there was no information/help desk and all we were getting from the locals were stares. Probably don't get too many blonde hair, blue/green eyed people there.<br>We spotted a couple we thought we might have some luck with (european looking girl). So we asked them for help with which bus to get to the ferry terminal. The guy was really friendly and helpful and ...

... Mosque that dominates the landscape and looks incredibly beautiful when lit up at night. Brunei is a Muslim country and the sale of alcohol was completely banned in the early nineties resulting in a complete lack of nightlife or any kind of scene. Subsequently, BSB is a very quiet and rather dull city. However, we found it to be very clean and pleasant, with lots of parks and green spaces, and the people we encountered were extremely ...

... about 20m above the rainforest floor. It was quite good fun, but we didn&#8217;t see much wildlife apart from a few pygmy squirrels (which are supposedly the second smallest mammals on the planet and are incredibly cute), a few lizards and a selection of strange insects. We were then taken to see some caves which collectively are known as the Show Caves and form the world&#8217;s largest cave corridor. The first cave we visited was Lang&#8217;s Cave which ...

... only excitement of the "float" - the water was cool and welcoming!<br>Later Melissa took us to her own home longhouse, quite different from the others we'd seen. It was Vanessa's first visit to a longhouse and proved very interesting to her. A long verandah and communal area with local Iban people going about their usual weekend lives - very relaxed and quite unperturbed by foreigners gawping into their living room and being shown around their kitchens! Voyeuristic, methinks ...

... and look very basic, in contrast to the restaurants and shopping centres on our side of the river. We watched the sky turn red the purple as the sun set, and then went for dinner in a restaurant by the river, so that we could watch the water taxis zooming back and forth at an incredible speed. After about 8pm the whole place was deserted (alcohol is illegal so there are no bars or clubs) so we went to bed. The next day we had breakfast in the food court which was very nice and ...

... was on accom. Tho I haven't done much just wonder around town every now and then and eat. Good lazy start to a trip I think!!! So after getting up I went to the supermarket and found myself vanilla coke for 80c had to buy it. And I got this big box of cut watermelon rockmelon and honey dude I than went and ate it in the sun man it was good!! And only $2 Now I felt like I had been awake for ages and ...

... cave d'asie et la deuxieme au monde. Un bassin exterieur, alimenter par la riviere de la cave , nous a servie de picine. Un plaisir pour nous mais les autres race s tremblait a y entrer (et tremblait pour nous aussi). Merveilleusement rafraichissante mais rien avoir avec les eaux du Quebec. Deviner quoi. On a pas eu assez. On a visiter une autre cave. Moonmilk cave. Petite mais amusante. Nous etions tres serrer dedans. La derniere que nous avons vue mais elle sont tous ...

... to go there, but I followed along anyway for lack of anything better to do. I mean would you go visit a housing development built on reclaimed land in Miami? The only thing I really wanted to see was the Amusement park that the Sultan built for himself because he likes amusement parks. Apparently no one really goes there during the week and many rides are reported to be closed on weekdays. I don't know because it's far out of town and I couldn't be bothered getting out there and ...