The Holiday Lodge Bandar Seri Begawan

... their seats when MJ is singing (and only when he is singing). <br><br>A guy across from me was even singing A Mow in duh Mellel to himself. For those of you not fluent in Malenglish that would be Man in the Mirror. That's ok if you didn't understand at first...that's what I am here for and my experiences navigating Singlish, Chinglish, Malenglish and so on are here at your disposal. Once MJ finishes telling us all about the man in the mirror, chaos once again ...

... we had about another 7 hours to kill! These chairs became our beds! A pillow made out of my handbag and jons jacket and jons pillow made out of his left hiking boot! - not too laugh thou, it must of been comfortable as we slept for a good 4 hours with only some random mosque chant going on half way through. we fell asleep to a quite lounge.....to awake to a busy lounge! We must of been tired. <br ...

... Kinabalu. The boat from Labuan to KK had stopped running, or would have stopped running by the time we got there. Or something.<br>So off to Lawas we go! About 10 of us piled onto a small speed boat, and it was surprisingly smooth sailing. We get to our destination 45 minutes later, we pull up to a ramshackle little dock on the side of a river. Walk to the immigration office, then herded into a van. We're driving for a good 20-30 minutes when we ...

... were there (and this is the dry season), we spent most of our stay in the hotel using the pool, ordering room service whilst watching movies, or eating in the hotel restaurant. However, one evening we did venture out and hired a speedboat to take us down the Sungai Brunei River at sunset to see the Istana Nurul Iman, the Sultan's Palace. Unfortunately, as the Palace is surrounded by tall trees, it was difficult to see much apart from the ...

... were quite spectacular to watch. <br><br>The following morning, we had to check out of the resort immediately after an early breakfast. We were collected by a longtail boat for the 2 hour trip down river to the Wind Cave and then on to the Clearwater Cave which has an underground river that runs through it which then spills out to form a crystal clear swimming pool near the cave entrance. After a lunch of chicken, rice and boiled cabbage at the Clearwater ...

... ride around. I felt a little cheated, as all I saw of the palace was the dome roof from behind a think layer a trees, but the rest of the ride, which included seeing a lot of the water village was interesting. I later went into a beautifully designed modern white mosque, although access was limited to walking to the centre of the main chamber, and back out again, having had to wear a full length cloak/gown. I met up with a ...

... yes, so off we went. Water taxis are supposed to be $1 to cross the river and $2 for slightly longer trips, and the Sultan's Palace is a bit further, so this seemed like a good price to us. We went off in the boat and he took us around Kampung Ayer to see the water village. There was a police station and a fire station complete with police and fire boats, a mosque and lots of little houses on stilts. We then went down to a point where we could see the palace from the river. It had a ...

... back into town I was sitting near a mosque during prear time and they blasted it out into the town so everyone could hear, it was acually really awesome and deft made the bus trip worth it!! Buy the time I got back into town I was hot slightly sun burnt and ready for a nap, which I took. Then got up had dinner slowly watching the world pass by 1am 9th nz time I'll be arriving in Singapore Peace out homies

... de bruit. Nous adorions tout ca. Nous avons commencer nos bagage et faire le journal. Il nous manquait une journee???? Apres de grande recherche nous avons trouver que nous avions pris 4 jours ici et non 3, Nous avons "rusher" tout ce temps. Enfin. la 4 ieme journee a ete relaxe. C'est ce que nous avons cru puisque le p/m venue, nous avons decider d'aller refaire notre 5km pour voir les chauve-souris. Un sentier nous intriguait en arriere de l'observatoire. Nous avons eu la ...

... side of the dome, you could feel the silent power of the room. I wanted to go into the center focal point of the room, but I thought better of it. If it wasn't against my religion, I would have converted just to be able to stand in the middle of this spiritual room. Instead I sat down at the edge and said a prayer to the one true God, that didn't require a name. I figured if I was right and that all religions of the world are essentially the same, but just colored and flavored by the ...