http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Brunei en-us Fri, 13 Nov 09 06:21:38 +0000 Fri, 13 Nov 09 06:21:38 +0000 Feeling bored in tiny Singapore and having withdrawal symptoms from my traveladdiction I decided to take a short trip to Brunei and collect another stamp in my passport. Since direct flights between Singapore and BSB Bandar Seri Begawan were ridiculously expensive I chose to fly on AirAsia and transit at Kuala Lumpur. Upon arrival at BSB airport it was already 8pm and there were no more http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-451690.html Touch down. Language that I can not understand. Even English is not English. It is IndianMalayaChineseHot Lunch time penne with cheese hybrid. From the plane to the airport terminal exit. Shall I take a cab Shall take a walk These and other strange questions I have been asking myself before I have decided to discuss a proper fare for a cab to get my lazy ass to downtown. Discussion was very e http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-445708.html Derniers jours au SabahMon ultime halte avant de quitter le Sabah s'appelle Kota Kinabalu la capitale de l'Etat dont les blocs tantot modernes et rutilants tantot vieux et dcrpis bordent la Mer de Chine du sud. Trois petits jours tranquilles passs a se reposer a organiser la suite du voyage et a scher mes grolles Un sjour des plus sociables dans un backpacker du centre ville. J'ai e http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-444319.html The story goes a little something like this.........Tired of working the cold miserable winter looking for a break from the monotonous routine. The plan was that Saurabh was going to come and visit at the end of July. So I had booked my leave at work. Leave booked from 27th July 10th Aug. Last week of work and Saurabh still procrastinating no plans of coming no visas applied for nothing http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-428308.html Yoursquove got to feel a bit sorry for the tourism department of Brunei. The country has a reputation for being very expensive and most tourists only use it for a logisticallyrequired stopover of a day or two when travelling overland between Sarawak and Sabah. I wasnrsquot any different with three days the first and last being days for arriving and departing so just one proper day in the c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/blog-428096.html Yesterday I boarded a flight from Singapore to Manila with a 7hour stopover in Brunei. I could have easily booked a direct Singapore to Manila flight but as I've never been to Brunei before I decided to give it a try. Anyway the ticket price was higher by only SG100. I figured that since I would be unlikely to book a separate trip to Brunei in the future this was a good method of going there http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-426400.html ldquoI hope you haven't got any bullets on yourdquo I said to Angela as we came in to land at Brunei's rather small international airport. ldquoBecause if you have you're done for. You're not even allowed to have them on necklaces.rdquo I'd just been reading the information about entry requirements to the country. Possession of a bullet was a serious offense the punishment was imprisonm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-425206.html Brunei 7th July 2009Hey everyone Me and Hayden are doing well and are on our last leg of the travel journey We went through Dubai yesterday... LUSH AIRPORT Flight was 6 hours so not too long. Food is nice on the plane... will upload pictures when we arrive in AucklandWe are now in Brunei... Took 8hours 30mins to get here from Dubai Flight seemed much longer because we were tired and found i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-416039.html This is my first blog.....so bear with me.....I'm new to this.I am currently in still in KolkataIndia and I am soon to be having my leaving party.It's very very sad I have been here just under a year and have met some incredible people.The children are amazing and secretly I want to take everyone of them with meThey have been busily making me a present according the the youngest in my class http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-415329.html Day 439 on the road Bandar Seri Begawan is a strange place. It is the capital of the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam by far smallest country in SouthEast Asia which is in turn by far the richest country here due to its abundant oil reserves. In fact the Sulatn of Brunei is one of the richest men in the world. What Bandar as the locals call it lacks completely however is atmosphere. It is d http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-409474.html We caught a boat from the main pier in KK to the busy port Island of Labuan for a short stop before catching the next boat with no AC or outside airflow yuck to Brunei. When we arrived in Brunei we found that there wasn't a money changer or ATM and we needed to catch the bus into town. A Swiss couple who Geoff had previously met at Mt. Kinabalu had already offered and paid for us. Later we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-400165.html An early start saw us at the ferry terminal to buy tickets for our trip to the island of Labuan which is 8 kilometres off the coast of KK and as it sits at the mouth of Brunei Bay is the route most people take to get to Brunei. It takes 3 hours to reach Labuan and I hated the whole trip. Boats and I don't gel and as my stomach was already queasy I spent the whole trip with my eyes glued to the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/blog-398873.html Day 289 Tuesday 14th April Arriving in the Sultanrsquos KingdomI make a mental calculation on my journey to Brunei. When I arrive this will be the 16th country I have set foot in during the last 10 months. Crossing the border into Brunei uses probably the best mode of transport Irsquove used yet to do a border crossing....it is by boat. First I catch a ferry from KK to Labuan Island thre http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-391157.html The Code of Energy Quantum www.spectrumenergyplus.co.ccltdiv styleTEXTALIGN centergtltspan styleFONTWEIGHT bold COLOR rgb25500gtltspangtltdivgtltdiv styleTEXTALIGN centergtltspan styleFONTWEIGHT bold COLOR rgb25500gtASSALAMUALAIKUM Wr. Wb.Bismillahirrohmanirrohimltspangtltspan styleFONTWEIGHT boldgtSelamat Datang Di situs M http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-388235.html We didn't have much luck with transport or bureacracy in Brunei. The ferry from Limbang wasn't running and the taxi drivers wanted ridiculous sums of money at exchange rates that didn't make sense. We eventually made it to the border and were pleased to be finally assigned transit visas a shortterm visa for those moving on in the next few days which costs about half as much as a 30 day visa. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-379885.html February 14th Okay Wow We woke with less than half an hour before checkin closed. It was straight up and off running first to check in and then through security. By the time we had fully woken up we had taken off. The alarm had gone off but cleverly I had placed it inside a pocket of my bag. It was quite a long flight before we landed in Brunei. For some reason we thought it would only be a c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-373516.html Bandar Seri Begawan http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-372855.html Zjutraj sem sla s Paulom da me je spotoma v sluzbo zategnil do glavne ceste kjer sem spet sedla na lokalni bus. Tokrat je bila neka druga linija ki je pejlala vse naokoli med drugim tudi mimo letalisca ki je RES za vogalom in za tretjino Brnika jap tudi to je mozno preden smo prisli spet v center. Sla sem na zajtrk v ze znani kafic Mekong nekaj pojedla in popila tokrat me zal ni nihce http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-372516.html Vstala sem kar zgodaj pred Paulom ker sem hitela v mesto vceraj sem se namrec s tistim Kanadcanom zmenila za book exchange ker sem ravno ze skoraj koncala svojo knjigo on pa jih je imel tudi na zalogo ze prebranih in je rabil nove. Tako da sem bila ob sedmih ze na poti do glavne ceste kjer sem morala ujagati bus do centra. Vmes sem malo probavala stopati ker so mimo vecinoma vozili starsi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-372196.html Paul me je na zajtrk odpeljal nekam kamor sam zelo rad zahaja kadar pac zajtrkuje zunaj kar pa je redko ker zaradi dela je doma. Danes je zaradi ravnokar prebolelih noric se na dopustu tako da sva si to lahko privoscila. Narocil mi je fried kao glass noodles but not s kalcki in ribjim filejem sebi pa neke druge nudlne iz njegovega rodnega kraja kaksno uro voznje od tukaj kjer sicer zivi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Brunei/Bandar-Seri-Begawan/blog-371902.html