Monday, October 28th

Well today was our last day in Brunei – we were hoping to go on a water taxi, but we didn’t end up getting organised enough to catch the 9am shuttle into town! So we caught the 11am one instead, just into the mall part with in the hope of going to see the other big mosque. We arrived at the mall and our driver said that he would come back at pick us up at about 1:30, which was good for us as we wanted to be back in plenty of time to pack our bags, get some cash out for airport taxes etc before heading to the airport at 5.

We went into the mall and got a couple of things we’d seen the other day, then went up to the top to the food court ‘cos I wanted to try some taditional food – I got what looked like (in the picture lol) chicken kebab kind of things, (not very adventurous I know, but it was just so hard to tell what anything was! And of course no one spoke english so was just kinda pointing at things like a dumb tourist! ) they ended up being prawn kebab things, which hot kind of spices on it. They were pretty yum, but had to be peeled which made them tricky to eat! (well I presumed they had to be peeled LOL, not much of an expert on such things!) I tried hard to remember what they were called but alas my memory has failed me hehe.

After lunch we attempted to walk to the mosque, but we came to a big highway thing so couldn’t cross the road!! So I took what photos I could from the otherside of the motorway, we went for a wander around then met our man at 1:30.

We got to the airport at 5pm and checked in our bags before finding somewhere to eat dinner. There was a nice restaurant at the airport and since we had quite a bit of spare brunei $ we decided to go there - it was so delicious!! I had Mussels in cream sauce and col had tandori chicken wraps. Cam Had fish and chips and in his usual style only ate the chips!! One day we will learn and only order him a side of chips hehe.

And so ends our time in Brunai!
Interesting facts:
It’s illegal to drink in Brunei – however tourists are allowed to take some alcohol in to drink during their stay!
A lot of the people speak enlish, and most of the sinage etc is in english and Malay
They love the Sultan!!! They don’t have a king, he runs the country and makes all the decisions. The taxi driver said that everyone is happy as long as there is a good king – which the current one is!! Aparently he is expected to retire soon – maybe next year
Not many tourists were roaming the streets – well not many european ones anyway! We saw a handful but that’s it – they all stared at us hehe and were extreamly taken with Campbell! Aparently he looks about 6 or 7 by there standards and like Harry potter!! Hahaha.
Our hotel staff were so amazingly helpful and always polite! If anyone ever goes to Brunei we totally rated our stay at the traders inn - the sink thing about it was that is wasn’t in town, but they run a free shuttle so it didn’t matter too much!