An Itinerary: My 4D3N in Brunei
Brunei, the last country I finally visited to complete ASEAN, was surprisingly fun.
As the 43rd country on my list, I’ve deprioritised Brunei for years. The infrastructure of this oil-rich country isn’t attractive to tourists, relative to other Southeast Asian places. Flights are rare and pricier compared to the other neighbouring countries of Singapore in terms of distance travelled.
One Brunei dollar is equivalent to one Singapore dollar!
I had intentions to visit Brunei in Jul 2022 while travelling in Miri, but the country was not yet open for travelling from the pandemic.
Fast forward to 2024, and Singapore’s 59th National Day occurred on a Friday. With that, it’s a long weekend to benefit from for an annual leaves-strapped, travel-hungry citizen who’ll be celebrating National Day overseas again.
I visited Brunei in August 2024. In case you’re wondering, I spent the National Day of 2023 in Hang Son Doong. This post contains affiliate links that cost nothing to you but support my blog! It may also be updated periodically. Cheers!
Brief Background of Brunei
Officially known as Brunei Darussalam, where Darussalam means the abode of peace in Arabic, Brunei has the world’s oldest reigning monarchy, with the current Sultan’s family line dating back over six centuries.
The early history of Brunei is not well documented, and the only reliable information I could gather is that the country has been a Muslim kingdom since 1301.
Britannica suggested Brunei was under Hindu influence before 1301 and that the Spanish ships previously headed by Ferdinand Magellan briefly visited Brunei the same year after visiting Cebu in 1521.
Coincidentally, Magellan’s fleet was in Cebu in April 1521, and in Brunei in August 1521. I was in Cebu in April 2024 and Brunei in August too, except instead of sailing to Palawan in June like the men did in 1521, I had to fly back to Singapore to work. 😂
The Brunei Empire once ruled the territories of Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan during its peak. Sarawak was relinquished to an English adventurer in 1841. Soon after, the remaining territories of Labuan and Sabah went under British control. Brunei succumbed to British colonialism eventually in 1888.
As with other Asian countries, Brunei was occupied by the Japanese during World War II.
Malaysia gained independence from the British on 16 September 1963 with the merger of five colonies – Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak. Brunei was part of the proposal but declined, achieving her independence from the British only on 23 February 1984. Singapore gained her independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965.
Since then, the country has seen ample growth with its hydrocarbon resources and its citizens enjoyed relatively high living standards. I saw petrol selling at B$0.5/ litre. Income tax is non-existent. We were not charged GST or VAT.
Brunei adopted the Sharia Islamic law in 2019, like most other Muslim nations, except to a more severe extent than neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia.
There are four districts in Brunei:
- Brunei-Muara. The capital, where the airport and most attractions are located.
- Tutong. Wedged between Brunei-Muara and Belait. Has the country’s largest lake, Tasek Merimbun. The lake is within the country’s largest National Park, home to rare animals like hornbills, clouded leopards, and the ethnic Dusuns.
- Belait. The westernmost district of Brunei adjacent to the Miri district of Sarawak, Malaysia.
- Temburong. Separated by land from the other three districts by the Limbang district of Sarawak, Malaysia, but connected to Brunei-Muara by a 30 km long Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Bridge Link. The country’s first National Park, Ulu Temburong, constitutes 40% of the district.
Best Time to Visit Brunei
My visit in August was outrageously hot, especially in the afternoon when the skin burns in contact with the sun. Yet, the sky pours almost every day towards the evening, making an umbrella indispensable as shade and shelter.
The temperature range for the tropical country is consistent all year, hovering between 25°C and 32°C, pretty much like that of Singapore or most other countries in the tropics.
What sets the months apart is the rainfall. The year-end of Nov – Jan sees the most precipitation, and the months of Feb – Apr have the least. Lesser rain spells momentarily lower humidity but also the hottest time.
Getting to Brunei
There are three ways to visit Brunei – fly, on wheels or via ferry.
Flight
Most travellers, including myself, fly into Brunei.
Brunei has an international airport in its capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, about 15 minutes or under 10 km from the city centre.
The country has its own carrier, the Royal Brunei Airlines, in yellow and black like the national flag. RBA has direct flights from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila, Seoul, Tokyo and regions further away, like Melbourne, Dubai and Jeddah.
Find your flights into Brunei here.
There are three non-stop flights daily from Singapore to Brunei – two on their national carrier and one on Singapore Airlines.
We took the 9 AM SQ148 and arrived in Brunei two hours later.
Fun discovery: I later realised that our flight SQ148 is linked to the codes of four other partnering international carriers - Lufthansa, Swiss, Air New Zealand, and Turkish Airlines.
Land Transport
Since Brunei is wedged within the Malaysian state of Sarawak, it enjoys a fair share of land border traffic. The populous city of Miri is just under 30 km from the border these two countries share!
This explains my frustration in 2022 when I had 10 days in Miri but could not take an overnight trip to Brunei due to the closed border.
According to the residents in Miri, the town sees an influx of Brunei shoppers/ travellers on the weekends, similar to how those in Johor experience a surge of shoppers from Singapore.
It takes under 160 km of land travel between Miri and Bandar Seri Begawan.
Apart from renting a car, we learnt from our host in our homestay in Brunei that there is a B$1 bus from BSB Bus Terminal in Bandar Seri Begawan to the border town of Kuala Belait in Belait District towards Miri. Buffer sufficient time if you’re thinking of taking the public buses. There should be private cars or Grab to call for once you’re on the Malaysian side.
You could also take the B$1 bus to the border village of Kuala Lurah, towards the Sarawak town of Limbang. Limbang town is closer to the Temburong district of Brunei than the Brunei-Muara district.
Find the map of public buses travelling within Brunei here.
Ferry
Aside from travelling to or from Sarawak, there is also a ferry connection from Muara to Labuan, one of the three federal territories of Malaysia that happens to be an island.
They have sailings from Muara, Brunei to Labuan and from Labuan to Menombok, Sabah daily. Check for the latest updates and ticket purchases with the ferry operator (links to their Facebook page). As of 2024, it costs B$20 to travel from Muara to Labuan.
Refer to the map for public buses to Serasa Ferry Terminal in Muara from the main bus terminal in Bandar Seri Begawan.
Administrative Matters
Visa
As someone possessing a passport from Singapore, an ASEAN member state like Brunei, I am granted visa-free travel for up to 30 days. Citizens of ASEAN have between 14 and 30 days of visa-free travel into Brunei.
Check here (opens to their Ministry of Affairs page) to see if you need to apply for a visa to Brunei. As of 2024, it costs B$20 for a single entry and B$30 for multiple entries.
E-Arrival Card
Before entering Brunei, all travellers must submit an e-arrival card.
You have to create an account that is verified with a working email. The website will log you out. You log in again to submit an e-arrival card. A tedious process if you’re visiting Brunei once in a blue moon.
Then again, everyone entering Singapore has to submit an e-arrival card.
Remember to screenshot the e-arrival card number for your upcoming trip. This screenshot is needed at the immigration counter. It saves you time rummaging through the portal again since they do not send an email confirmation.
You could submit your e-arrival card within 3 days of entering Brunei.
Money
Aside from withdrawing cash from ATMs or exchanging for Brunei dollars, travellers holding on to Singapore dollars can spend their money in Brunei under the Brunei-Singapore Currency Interchangeability Agreement in 1967. Read more about the history of this agreement here (links to PDF), starting from page 73.
If you’re wondering if you could spend Brunei dollars in Singapore, the short answer is yes, as illustrated in this article.
However, given the dwindling knowledge of this agreement in Singapore with the influx of new migrants/ foreign workers, the impossibility of depositing such cash in Singapore ATMs, and Singapore’s increasing transition to cashless methods of payment, it’s a 50:50 chance of having your Brunei dollar accepted in the small vendors of Singapore.
Cash is still the king in our Brunei travel for food and transport.
There are 6 note denominations commonly used in Brunei: blue B$1, green B$5, red B$10, orange-yellow B$20, yellow or lighter blue B$50, and orange-brown B$100.
Tip: We withdrew our Brunei dollars without incurring ATM charges from the BIBD (Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam) ATM. There’s one in the arrival hall at the airport.
SIM
There are two SIM card vendors in the airport arrival hall.
I did not test the prevalence of wifi in the city since I have free 1 GB auto roam data.
Alternatively, order a global esim before your Brunei trip. The esim can be used in other countries too!
Attire
Dress conservatively and sensibly since Brunei is an Islamic country.
The heads and shoulders of ladies have to be covered in mosques and religious places. A shawl comes in handy here.
Both genders have to have their knees covered in pants or long skirts. Popular mosques may provide a baggy dress to cover up. But for hygiene, it’s always a good idea to wear yours rather than the attire loaned out to many others.
Shoes are left outside before entering a religious place, and you may find this shoe-out policy extended to some accommodations or sites of interest in the country.
Weekends
Since Brunei practices the Islamic faith, Friday is the day for praying, hence an official rest day.
However, unlike other Muslim-majority countries that may have Friday-Saturday or Thursday-Friday weekends, Brunei is the only country in the world with a non-consecutive weekend on Friday and Sunday.
Note that most shops and places of attractions may be closed on Friday – factor this into your planning.
Travelling within Brunei
Bus
There are public buses in Brunei, but don’t get your hopes high. These buses run erratically, and you could spend 30 mins waiting for one, not knowing when or if it’ll show up.
As a Redditor mentioned in a post I saw during my research for my trip, it is not about you waiting for the bus, but rather, if the bus wants to go.
All buses terminate at the BSB Bus Terminal. There is a Brunei bus app available in all app stores. However, the app does not tell you the approximate arrival time of the buses.
With five buses – blue 34, 36, and 38, and green 23, 24 – having the international airport as one of their stops, one may be tempted to think getting on a bus should be quick and easy.
However, we were fooled by the real bus stop at the airport!
We waited for an hour outside of the arrival hall, where the bus station supposedly is, with seats and an information board, until a cleaner came over and informed us that buses stop at the departure level on the second floor!
After another 30 minutes of waiting outside the departure hall, we hopped onto bus 36.
A ride costs B$1, regardless of the distance covered, and buses, technically, run from 6 AM to 8 PM. An extremely cheap way of moving around at the cost of investing lots of time.
The public buses in Brunei are 20-seater buses, and the only public bus episode we had was on a non-air-conditioned bus with battered seats. Since it was raining in the afternoon when we arrived, most seats near the open windows were wet.
It took us around 15 minutes to reach the city centre.
Consider taking public buses only when you have ample buffer time and a large dose of patience. As owning a car and the cost of petrol is very affordable in oil-abundant Brunei, locals do not rely on their public bus system.
As a friend who solo-visited Brunei before the pandemic puts it, her hotel receptionist can’t confidently pinpoint the bus station, and no one can inform her if the buses even run.
In addition, Google Maps has no reliable markings for bus stations in Brunei since no one pins or checks them! This just made boarding the mythical bus in Brunei an activity I really wanted to experience out of curiosity.
Dart
Disregarding the mythical bus, if you’re short on time, the only public transport that the locals recognise is the ride-hailing service Dart.
Dart is like Grab in Southeast Asia. Download an app to create an account and hail for a ride. It costs around B$10 from the airport to the city centre.
All payments are done via cash at the end of the ride.
Car Rental
Alternatively, rent a car from the airport or the city centre to get around Brunei. Petrol from Shell costs B$0.50 per litre when I was there!
Attractions and Activities within Brunei
Map of Attractions
Visit Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque
Omar Ali Saiffudien Mosque is one of the two national mosques in Brunei and the country’s landmark icon. The other mosque is the photogenic Jame’ Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque along the highway to Gadong.
The mosque was commissioned by the 28th Sultan, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, in the 1950s as a symbol of Islamic faith in Brunei. It took four years to complete the design – lavishly ending in 1958 – that was a fusion of the Mughal architecture in India and the Malay Islamic flairs of the region.
Within the grounds of the gold-domed mosque is an artificial lagoon harbouring a replica of the 16th century Sultan Bolkiah Mahligai Barge – a royal barge of the 5th Sultan of Brunei.
Visiting the mosque is free and open daily from 8.30 AM to 5.30 PM. However, non-muslims are only permitted into the main hall outside of their prayer timings of 12 NN – 1.30 PM and 3 PM to 4.30 PM every day. The mosque is closed from visiting on religious days and Fridays.
Stroll the Brunei Waterfront
Walking by the Brunei Waterfront is a good exertion, had it not been under a punishing afternoon sun.
You could hire a boatman to take you to the water village, Kampong Ayer, on the other side of the river, or even to the mangroves for the Proboscis monkey.
It costs B$1 per person to travel across the river and about B$30 – B$50 per boat to explore the mangroves.
Take a boat ride to the Water Village
Kampong Ayer, literally translated as the Water Village, is home to villages built on stilts from the banks of Bandar Seri Begawan. As many as 40,000 people live in the water village!
Sometimes called The Venice of the East, the capital of the Bruneian Empire can be traced back to Kampong Ayer to as early as the late 14th century, during the reign of Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Sultan of Brunei!
Floating houses are familiar sights in the coastal towns of Southeast Asia.
However, the water village of Brunei exists on another spectrum! The community has a mosque, school, grocery stalls and police station. They have fresh water and electricity. The residents get on with their daily lives as normal, taking boat rides to the mainland for work and entertainment.
Spot the Proboscis Monkey in the mangroves
Proboscis monkeys are endemic to Borneo. Where else to see them but from the mangrove forests of Brunei when you are already a boat ride away in Bander Seri Begawan!
The monkeys are good swimmers and mainly survive on the vegetation growing by the coastal river, swamps or mangroves.
Explore the Royal Regalia Museum
The Royal Regalia Museum is a quirky museum to visit if you’re tired of the humidity and sun outside.
Located a stone’s throw away from the Radisson Hotel and Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, the building houses the sultan’s heirlooms and mementoes or gifts from foreign delegates.
Tickets cost B$5. The museum is open from 9AM to 5PM every day except Friday.
Eat Ambuyat dipped in Tempoyak
Ambuyat, a dish made from the starchy trunk of a sago palm, is the national dish of Brunei, and a specialty dish of East Malaysia.
We had our ambuyat experience at a restaurant near our homestay in Muara. Apart from ambuyat, which is tasteless, we had a hearty assortment of side dishes to pair with.
I guess the appeal of eating ambuyat to newcomers is the challenge of getting a worthy-sized lump with the two-pronged bamboo stick. The tool is like two chopsticks fused at the end. You’d need that to grab and twirl a decent lump of ambuyat to eat with tempoyak.
Tempoyak is a condiment made from fermented durian, usually just salt and over-ripe durian flesh. Chillies may be thrown into the mix. The sauce may not be to everyone’s liking, especially if one does not appreciate durian! My tempoyak experience in that eatery reminded me of the Thousand Island salad dressings with a faint hint of durian aroma.
The side dishes we had for our meal consisted of a plate of small fried fish, steamed eggplant in spicy sauce, raw vegetables paired with spicy dip sauce and sambal belacan, native vegetables simmered in coconut milk, an entire BBQ fish, and tempoyak. All for the cost of B$16 for two!
You may be able to find eateries selling ambuyat in the water village.
Enjoy Tropical Fruits at Gadong Night Market
The Gadong area is the place for shopping and eating after sunset.
Before you envision the scene of a bustling night market like that of Bangkok or Hanoi, manage your expectations!
Gadong Night Market is anything but that. Underneath a large, clean and airy shelter, the market has two rows of walkways of food, fruits and drinks.
You could buy a meal of fried noodles for B$2 and a sugary drink for B$1!
Plenty of fruit stalls with a plethora of colourful tropical fruits like rambutans, papaya, banana, lychee, mangosteen and durians operate in this market. You’d be surprised by the variety of durians there are, from the red and orange flesh of the small spiky fruit to the big and common yellow-flesh durians we are accustomed to.
And then there is the black pellet-shaped kembayau that has to be boiled before being eaten. The yellow pulp is supposed to taste like avocado. The black pulasan is a cousin of rambutan but with a darker outer shell. Tarap is a relative of jackfruit and cempedak.
Catch a sunset from the beach
As a coastal country, Brunei has plenty of sites to catch the golden glows of sunsets.
Assuming you’re only moving around the Brunei-Muara district, some good locations to catch the sunset include Muara Beach, Tanjong Batu Beach, Jerudong Beach and the beach from the luxurious 5-star Empire Hotel.
Scuba Dive the Wrecks
Brunei is known for their wreck dives in Borneo.
As an active shipping region of the past that even welcomed the Spanish contingent led by Magellan on their circumnavigate loop around the world, the seas off Brunei have their share of bombed boats and sunken ships.
There are over 30 wrecks, of which 4 are casualties of World War II. This entertaining article furnished with photos by Ram might whet your appetite.
If you hold an advanced cert in scuba diving, then make a date with Oceanic Quest or Poni Divers for some underwater exploration. While an open waters cert allows a depth of 18 m, I find having a few dives plus an advanced cert that enables dives up to 30 m more desirable and comforting for wreck dives like those in Brunei.
Climb to the Canopy at Ulu Temburong National Park
Any multi-day tour packages in Brunei include a trip to Ulu Temburong National Park.
As the first national park of Brunei established in 1991, Ulu Temburong might be the country’s best tourism attraction because of its secluded and pristine forest that is only accessible via longboats.
Aside from the journey via longboat and the hike through the dense jungle, what made the excursion memorable was the novel canopy walk.
I’ve done several treetop or canopy walks. There’s one in Singapore at MacRitchie, which is free. But nothing could quite prepare me for the canopy walk in Ulu Temburong!
We had to climb up stair towers similar to those used in construction!
Accommodations in Brunei
Brunei may be a small country with most of its attractions centred in the Brunei-Muara district.
For my 4D3N trip in Brunei, I stayed with Poni Homestay at Muara. Our room was clean and basic. The biggest perk is their complimentary ride from the airport, free breakfast of roti, fried rice or fried noodles, and $10 one-way rides to the city, which saves one from the hassle of travelling around. Overall a wonderful stay with the hospitable host, Yani.
There’s no hostel culture in Brunei. Affordable accommodation in the Brunei-Muara district includes EZ Suites and Miniinn Guest House located in the Gadong area beside The Mall and within walking distance of Gadong Night Market.
Hotels in Brunei that most other patrons of my Ulu Temburong National Park stayed at include the centrally located Radisson Hotel, The Brunei Hotel, and The Capital Residence. One of them checked in at The Centrepoint opposite The Mall in Gadong.
A unique experience would include staying a night at Kunyit 7 Lodge in the Water Village and getting a taste of how the locals there live. The lodge is a hot potato as it is the only reputable and highly reviewed accommodation in Kampong Ayer, so book early to secure your slot!
The fanciest hotel that is splurge-worthy ought to be The Empire Hotel. According to past patrons, the hotel looks and feels like a palace with top-notch hospitality, making one feel well-treated like royalty. They have a beach with stellar sea views and sunsets.
My 4D3N Itinerary
My partner and I are a pair of ambitious and adventurous budget-conscious travellers. For our 4D3N Brunei adventure, we found Poni Homestay to be the most affordable and convenient accommodation for our needs.
Our scuba dives and Ulu Temburong trip was booked months in advance.
If you’re into shopping, Gadong is the place you want to be, but manage your expectations!
So here’s how our itinerary panned out!
Day 1: Exploring the Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan
Morning Flight into Brunei
Clearing immigration in Brunei was a breeze. Their officers put in effort to squeeze the stamp in one of my cluttered pages!
We could have called for a Dart to bring us to the capital, but I wanted to ride the elusive blue bus. After more than an hour of waiting, including asking several others and checking that we were at the right waiting spot, we finally hitched onto bus 36 to the capital.
Bus 36 whizzed by several enormous embassies belonging to countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, and the USA. It drizzled but that cleared when we reached the city centre.
Exploring Bandar Seri Begawan by foot
Since we packed light, we carried our backpacks around the city, from the waterfront where a boatman tried to coax us in, to the grand Omar Ali Saiffudien Mosque and the Royal Regalia Museum.
After spending about an hour exploring and marvelling at the fine gifts of the Sultan in the museum, we hopped over to the lobby of the Radisson Hotel to wait for our pickup to Poni Homestay.
Dinner was at a nearby eatery where I indulged in a Javanese spicy sweet soy sauce bowl of tongseng while my partner had ayam penyet.
Day 2: Scuba Diving from Muara
Scuba Diving three wrecks
After an early morning breakfast of roti and fried rice, we walked over to Oceanic Quest – Poni Divers was pricier – and enjoyed a day of three dives at different wrecks.
We suffered some cuts and bruises from bumping into the corroded walls compounded by poor visibility but found the three dive sites – The Australian Wreck, The American Wreck, and The Dolphin88 Wreck – spectacular in their own ways.
Sampling Ambuyat
Dinner was a hearty feast of Ambuyat dipped in Tempoyak and an assortment of side dishes at a nearby eatery as we watched the sun dip behind the horizon, splashing orange and red everywhere.
Day 3: Day Trip to Ulu Temburong + Gadong Night Market
Activities in Ulu Temburong
A very eventful day spent in Ulu Temburong National Park that deserves a post by itself, with the start of the trip being a punctured tyre of the bus we’re on over the 30 km long Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Bridge Link.
The highlight for me, when we were in the jungle, was climbing the narrow stairs of the stair towers towards the highest wobbly tier of the canopy, where there are safety restrictions like max one person per row of stairs, two people per bridge and so on. A gingerly frightening but novel experience.
Dinner at Gadong Night Market
After an activity-packed day at Ulu Temburong, we shared a B$5 portion of BBQ sambal stingray, a B$4 avocado milkshake with strange toppings, and a B$4 small red-fleshed durian at Gadong Night Market.
Indulging in the bright red flesh durian at Gadong can easily be one of the moments for me. I’ve never seen durian flesh in other colours aside from yellow!
The small spike ball had a very faint durian aroma, unlike the big bright yellow durians I’m accustomed to. There’s very little flesh attached to the seeds, and they tend to stick to the durian hull. Eating this durian was messier since they’re sticky, but they leave no lingering durian aroma on the fingers. They taste more caramel than the yellow durians and are a little alcoholic.
Day 4: Flight Out
Day 4 was a chill day for us since my body was tired from the sunburn and spicy/ heaty food. Besides, it poured the entire morning!
We checked out at noon and rode to the airport for our late afternoon flight back to Singapore.
If you’re following my itinerary, half a day is plenty of time to return to the capital and explore Kampong Ayer.
Expenses
Here’s a breakdown of our expenses for a 4D3N long weekend trip to Brunei since we love to know where our money went. ✨
Airfare from Singapore took more than 50% of our expenses, with the next expense being activities – diving cost us B$165 each, including gear rental, and the day trip to the canopy at Ulu Temburong was about the same price by 10 bucks short.
Those big-ticketed items were unavoidable. What we can control is keeping food costs low by eating at affordable eateries and staying in a budgeted non-frills accommodation. We took advantage of the meals included in the activities and the complimentary breakfast from our homestay!
Conclusion/ Rambles
Visiting Brunei has been a perspective-changing experience.
I’ve always thought the country lacked attractions and the infrastructure to support the do-it-yourself travellers and deprioritised backpacking in the country till now. It’s the last country to complete my ASEAN list!
There’s no publicity about tourism in the country, and no one around me has been there, except for a friend who went before the pandemic and returned to remark how boring it was. Then again, she did not venture beyond Bandar Seri Begawan.
Without a reliable transport system, getting around would be a pain and the cost would add up!
And nothing entices me in the city, compared to the attractions-rich, bustling towns, cities and outskirts of other Southeast Asian countries. There are no old temples, house museums, interesting caves, notable mountains or UNESCO sites. Maybe they weren’t publicised. Or I did not look harder.
Visiting Brunei is like visiting the neighbourhoods of Malaysia but paying in SGD if you are not into their impressive wreck dives and biodiversity-rich jungle walks.
But the country is safe compared to several other countries I have visited.
The country has remained intact from over-tourism and the homogenisation brought about by globalisation.
It is laid-back and relaxing. No one’s gonna bug you, tout you or scam you. The residents we met on our trip were friendly and genuinely curious about us.
While diving and hiking the canopy, marked as the country’s highlights, are pricey for budget backpackers, the lack of travellers in this part of the world makes the experience more intimate and memorable.
There are bits and pieces of my Brunei trip that were unforgettable. I learnt that eating ambuyat dipped in tempoyak takes skill. The sight, taste and smell of the red durian were so bizarre. Diving in their massive shipwrecks was a mix of thrill and anxiety that trained my buoyancy. And I’ve now added the possibility of climbing stair tunnels to reach the canopy.
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, has relatively untouched jungles, caves, mountains and incredible dive sites. I enjoyed my 10-day trip in Miri, including the Mulu National Park. If you’re travelling to this part of the world, Brunei would be an excellent addition to your adventurous vacation!
One Comment
Fateema
Thank you for all the overload information, I’m looking forward for my next vacation in Brunei.