Holiday Inn Miri

... to Miri'....<br>Anyway, as I was just settling down on the floor for a 2hr wait, it turned out that the last bus hadn't actually yet arrived as it was late and it pitched up 5 minutes later. The bus took us to the central bus station where there is a tourist info so that we could try to find somewhere to stay. We got a map of the town and then started to ask at a few of the budget hotels. Most of them were so grim and seemed to only rent rooms by the hour. We ...

... with a J-Lo movie to keep everyone entertained. Just when we thought it was all over for the night, we were woken up at 12:00 to the loudspeaker yelling Islamic stuff...which soon became second nature to us, especially at 6:20 when the sun went down. This meant a free for all at every local restaurant as this was the first meal of the day.<br><br>On to Brunei.

... any boat i've been on before, really long and tall, extremely powerful also. As soon as we were out of the port the captain gunned it and we motored along at a high speed. I sat up on the deck for most off the trip, the route followed the Batang Rejang river from Sibu until it reaches the sea. All along the river banks were huge logging companies loading loads of timber onto boats. There were thousands of trees all just lying on the bank waiting to be collected. Malaysia has a real ...

... off towards a police post on the Brunei side (35 degrees, bright sun, only people walking anywhere in this heat!), were waived through the police post, and stopped in the shade to text Vanessa to pick us up at the border. We sat on a wall and had a lunch of bananas - what else would you do in the circumstances? Mad dogs and Englishmen spring to mind here.<br>Then a very friendly Brunei policeman came out and asked, "What do you think you are doing here ...

... in the wood. After extracting myself from the what was left of the bridge, we made it to the longhouses and it was a collection of huts, well at least I got a few new bruises for my efforts. We made it back to the main hut and waited for one of the other hikers to catch up, he spent most of the trip trailing along in the back. We headed back across the river (another ringget) and back into the van. Looking forward to going to the beach, we ended up back at the hostel ...

... cave looking for the famous ancient wall paintings. We eventually found them when we looked more closely at the ancient burial site right by the main entrance where we had first looked. The paintings weren't visually all that impressive and actually looked much clearer on camera and in the brochure than with the naked eye. Still, it's not every day that you get to see wall paintings that are thousands of years old. The rain had made the boardwalk even more ...

... de 8 euros, ce qui correspond a une dizaine de repas...) dans un papier journal qu'on plie pour qu'il tienne dans ta main. Puis, tu vas diner et comme par hasard le mec était la, genre je me ballade. Et il s'installe à côté de toi pour diner. Un des gars te fait signe que c'est à ce moment et un autre te dit d'attendre...pas simple. Finalement t'attends qu'il est pose sa cuillère pour le remercier encore en lui serrant la main et en lui passant ...

... nous la ? Deux choses, nous nous rapprochons du sultanat de Brunei et nous visitons l'attraction locale, les grottes de Niah qui méritent bien le détour. 40000 ans auparavant, plus ou moins, des hommes, plus ou moins, dessinaient des mammouths... plus ou moins. Impressionnante ballade, accompagnée de quelques angoisses. En effet, arrivant a l'entrée du parc de Niah, un gardien me ...

... was really cool inside here and by now, I think both Argi and I have had enough of caves!! The ride back to the Resort was fun as Argi and I got to sit together !! We made plans to go for the canopy walk at the Mulu National Park on our own tomorrow. 30th December 2007: We decided to sleep in late today as we were tired from our continuous adventures for the past 2 days. However, we received a call from the Resort´s ...

March 28, 2007 Batu Niah Cave Park After a B$6.00 taxi ride from the hotel we are back at the Kuala Belait bus depot for our ride to Miri. The bus cost B$20.40 for both of us. At Miri we almost immediately board a bus headed to Batu Niah. We have a running joke between us where one of us will ask the other, for instance, what are we going to do when we get to Batu Niah? The other will say, "I don't know, I've never been there." Well in this case ...