Riverview Hotel Bandar Seri Begawan

... baari?!?! (Homma toimiikin niin etta pimennettyjen lasien takana baaritiskilta ostetaan blandikset ja jaykat tuodaan omakatisesti himasta. Siita sitten vaan kiskomaan paheksuvien katseiden saavuttamattomissa. Poissa silmista - poissa mielesta nayttaa taallakin olevan paivan sana..) Rinkkojen penkomisen jalkeen saatiin shuttle-bus kyyti keskustaan ja majoittauduttiin melko okyyn Brunei hotelliin koska maasta loytyy vain yksi hostelli (jossa on ...

... br><br>And let me tell you how badly alcohol hand sanitizer burns when that is your only first aid available for unexpected mishaps. I ended up buying some yellow ointment from a Chinese pharmacist and I will let you know in a few days if eastern medicine really does work or if it just makes your leg swell up and fall off during the night. Actually the stuff was made in a factory in Malaysia but I just don't understand why they have to make it bright yellow. This ...

With time running short, we could only choose to do one more thing. The girls went off to the tropical island they filmed the first series of "Survivor" on and I went to Brunei for the night. We'd been told there wasn't really much to do there, and thats why the girls didn't join me, but I wanted to go and see for myself and really just to visit another country more than anything else. I've only 4 blank pages left in my passport, so every stamp helps. ;)<br><br>Well, what ...

... in 1984. Many travelers skip Brunei because it's considered expensive. Well, that's not quite true. In Bandar there is a youth hostel for B$10 per night with a/c, and a dish on the market costs B$1, which is similar to Malaysia. Bandar offers only a few interesting sights. Definitely worth seeing is the main mosque, which gets pretty photogenic at dusk. Water villages provide a great contrast to the wealth ...

... shower curtains, we decided to stick with the hostel but to get ourselves out of Miri as quickly as possible. The hostel was actually clean enough, but our sheets and pillow cases were so threadbare that you could actually see through them. Once again, we had a room next to the reception desk so that we were kept awake until the early hours of the morning with the doorbell ringing, the TV blaring out and doors slamming. <br><br>The following day, we ...

... with Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - the rest seem to be seen as fodder for the big boys. S'pose that's quite accurate?<br>Our rep points us in the direction of a water taxi, life jackets are issued and ignored by many. We dutifully put ours on and set off on a white-knuckle ride up stream. This was a James Bond style ride, steep banking, bouncing through boat wakes, sharp bends, quick deceleration - brilliant ride though and no hint of sea-sickness. The locals in ...

... on to keep it dry. Never expected to do that inside a vehicle. A couple of days spent in the capital admiring the obvious sights of the fantastic huge mosque in the middle of town. It looked great lit up at night. A boat ride out to the mangroves watching probiscus monkeys swing around followed by a glimpse of the Sultan's new gaff on the way back through the stilt villages. It looks nice ...

... through to the waiting area. A noticably tanned couple take the seats opposite meand I over hear that their seat numbers aren't next to each other, I am to be the piggy in the middle which doesn't sound like fun. Knowing that this is a full flight I offer to swap with one of them losing nothing and gaining everything! Steve and Joe, originally from the UK having been staying with relatives in New Zealand and using this as a base to tramp across East Asia. They had spent the past six weeks ...

... aucun internet. Alors, voici: 8 decembre : Nous avons essayer de dejeuner avant de partir pour prendre l'avion a Miri. Le menu offrait presqu'exclusivement des sandwich. quel plaisisr. On passe la commende et deviner, il n'y avait pas de pain. Alors on a flyer vers l'aeroport et avons prit notre sandwich la avec un cafe (starbuck) cher et pas tres bon. 30 min de vol et nous voici arrive. Tres petite aeroport. Les bagages n'ont pas ete difficille a trouver puisqu'on etait ...

... neck... i told him i just wanted my head shaved but he just nodded and kept on applying shaving cream. well by this time my cheeks and neck were nearly all covered with shaving cream and I wasnt gonna try and argue with an indian carrying a sharp blade. and im glad i didnt, he gave me the cleanest freshest shave of my life... and even shaped it Alig G stylez (well sorta ...