Today we got up a little later than yesterday and had breakfast before being picked up for our two hour tour to see the proboscis monkeys and visit a water village.We were transferred from the hotel to the river where we boarded a boat and headed out to the mangroves to look for proboscis monkeys. Our boat driver and our guide were on the look out as we went to a number of places where the monkeys are usually seen.Lucky for us the monkeys are around so we saw thr...

Today we went on our full day tour to Temburong, a section on Brunei separated from the rest of Brunei by a small part of Malaysia. To get there we took a speed boat from Bandar Seri Begawan to Bangar in Temburong and then a car to the river and then a longboat up the river to the Ulu Terembong National Park. After the car trip we had a morning tea at the tour company's lodge which was curry puffs, curry spring rolls and banana fritters. We then got in the lo...

Today we slept in a bit, had breakfast and then set out on a walking tour of BSB. The town is quite small so you could walk from one end to the other in 10 minutes or so. But, as the weather was so hot and humid, a 10 minute walk was hard work. We started by walking down to a local market which we read had some fruit and vegetables as well as some local handicrafts. As we were looking for a souvenir for Brunei we looked around for handicrafts or anything that wou...

Our flight departed Dubai at 5.15am so we had to get up at 2am which wasn't much fun. The flight was quite full compared to the nearly empty planes on the flights from Melbourne to Dubai but the flight seemed to go by faster and we arrived in Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) at around 5pm and went straight to the hotel. Check in went smoothly for a change and we got a map and decided to walk down to the only shopping centre in town which a 10 or so minute walk from...

Our flight landed in Bandar Seri Begawan and we made our way to the departure area for our connecting flight to Dubai. We had read that the airport in Bandar Seri Begawan was small and undergoing renovations so we weren't expecting much. However, the departure area was smaller than we'd imagined and there was absolutely nothing to do there. There was one cafe upstairs, a small duty free section that would take less than a minute to walk through and a few ...