Seri Borneo Hotel

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, ...

Let's start with a bit of geography. BSB is the capital of Brunei, a small country contained in the big island of Borneo, with Sabah and Sarawak (two states of Malaysia) and the rest is Kalimantan. History - Brunei used to be all of Borneo plus some of ...

... and Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia. We loved Brunei so much we decided that we would return after our tour of Malaysian Borneo. Our taxi from hotel to airport was probably the most scary part of our initial stay in Brunei as the driver told us all about ...

... after a day or two R'n'R in Brunei. Following on from the excitement of the match and having become quite blasé about travelling in Borneo we thought we'd catch a bus to the museum of Brunei, which was a little way out of town, what could possibly go ...

Today we decide to go back into Bandar to visit the water village Kampong Ayer. Once at the jetty it appeared every water taxi in the area had noted our arrival and were desperate to give us the tour. I had remembered that were known as 'flying ...

... .  There were more monkeys and exotic birds in the hotel garden than we had seen during our week of trekking through the jungles of Borneo. As there is very little to see or do in BSB, and as it rained torrentially every day we were there (and this ...

... gibt da wirklich nirgends Alkohol oder Glueckspiel oder so etwas) war die Strapazen wert. Die letzten zweit Tage unserer Zeit in Borneo werden wir jetzt noch in Kota Kinabalu, bzw an den Straenden in der Naehe verbringen. Insgesamt waren wir jetzt etwas ...

... Gallery, and the story of the sultans. After the usual bit of exposition about Pangaea and Gondwana and how the island of Borneo was formed, and then a bit of bumf about the drawing of the various borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and ...

... some cases didn't even know exactly where they were! Well, one of these is Brunei, a tiny sultanate on the northern coast of Borneo island (sharing the island with Indonesia and Malaysia). So, if you've got some time, and some space in your passport for ...

... man he seemed to be.  After telling him we were interested in seeing the Proboscis Monkey (which only live on the island of Borneo) but how we missed booking a tour, Aslam said he would take us into the jungle tomorrow morning to see the crocodiles, ...

... always wanted to see these monkeys first hand as I find them to be very unique. This Probiscus Monkeys are only found in the Borneo island which Brunei is part off.         We stopped at two locations and viewed these monkeys ...

... is not owned and run by one country, and has in fact three different nationalities residing on its shores. The majority of Borneo's land is shared between Malaysia and Indonesia, but on the northern coast a small section of land lies the nation of ...

... programados decidimos fazer um passeio extra de barco, para ver nada mais nada menos do que o ilustríssimo macaco Proboscis (macaco de Borneo), que está em extinção e só se encontra por aqui. A Carol passou um pouco de medo no barco, que estava ...

... noon, I arrived in Kuching. I was somehow relived to be back in Malaysia. Now I was in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak in Borneo. I went to the visitor info to get some accommodation info and a map and met Claus, a German living in England. We chatted ...

... Malaysian state of Sarawak. Back in the good old days (read: pre-19th century), Brunei was in control of nearly all of Borneo. Then that damn "White Raja of Sarawak" showed up and began extending his hold on the region, slowly hacking away at what had ...

... pulse of Kuala Lumpur. When duty called upon a doctor and an engineer from the big city, they answered. So when I arrived in Borneo and conveyed my dismay to them over dinner that this modernity was nothing that I had expected, they both had their own ...

... the taxi driver had NO idea where it was. The more he repeated it, the less he seemed to know where it was. "North Borneo Lodge. North Borneo Lodge" And we were no closer to finding it. Got the Lonely Planet out again and managed to figure out where we ...

... wild and will starve themselves to death if kept in captivity. You wont see them in any zoos and they are only found in Borneo so I could not miss this opportunity to see the largest breed of monkey (one was found by Dave that weighed 85kg). During ...