Friday 25th July We had a long lazy breakfast at the hostel this morning (mmm, kaya toast... however will I live without it), and generally wasted the morning drinking coffee and using the internet. Then after lunch we set off for Brunei, having arranged a lift in a private car as it wasn't too expensive, and the bus journey sounded like a bit o...

Up for 8.30 start. Went by taxi with 4 Germans. Crossed border very easily without getting out of the car. Total travel about 2 hours and we were then left with the Germans, who were dropped off at a Youth hostel in the City Centre. We strolled away down the road but soon found out which area we were in. Brunei was a rather strange place as we t...

We crossed into Brunei by taxi with another couple. This was a very exciting time for me since going to Brunei meant returning 'home' to place where I lived when I was little - between the ages of 2 and 5. We'd been recommended a guesthouse to stay at - actually the only budget option in Bandar Seri Begawan, the country's Capital city. Brunei is...

There were 10 borders we had to passed throu started from Sindumin, Sabah to Brunei then came in Lawas, Sarawak, out to Brunei again, passed throu Limbang, Sarawak again before lastly reached Miri's border....

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, hardly time to go to the toilet before you had to buckle up for the descent. We were staying a...

On the way back to NZ we stopped off in Brunei for another 24 hours, to see more and to break up the journey. We had one thing we wanted to see, and that was some Proboscis Monkeys. We were planning originally to take a regular water taxi, as the tours were expensive. But then we found a company with a special on in February, and persuaded them ...

Das kleine exotische Sultanat Brunei. Die Vorbereitungen fuer den 60. Geburtstag des Sultans am 15. Juli 2006 laufen auf Hochtouren. Interessant ist auch ein Besuch des Kampung Ayer, einer Art Pfahlbauer Siedlung, wo 30'000 aermere Menschen leben.

We were on a stupidly tight schedule in Borneo which meant we had to fly back to KL from Kuching, at the complete other end of the island, in only 4 days time. In this time we also wanted to visit the huge caves in Mulu national parks but that seemed highly unlikely given how difficult it is to get there. To get from the Sabah region of Malaysia...