I had a few hours before my flight so I wanted to try to head to the floating village although I was low on local currency so didn't want to spend too much on boat rides and needed to save money for the airport busSome locals were taking a boat from the river market so I thought it would be safer to get on with them then to try to get one myself and pay tourist prices.The boat ride was $2BND ($1.60). He offered to take me all around for $30BND ($25) but I didn't ...

A block or so behind the bus terminal we had passed by a small Chinese temple and river market. I walked back to check both of these out.The temple was small with a lot of typical features of other temples.One distinct feature was a wall of small painted hand tiles similar to a comic strip.The neighbouring car park and condo building gave a distinct contrast of modern and traditionalOpposite was the river market. I wasn't sure if it would have shut down by noon o...

The next museum downtown was the Royal Regalia Museum behind the state parade grounds. All museums are free but they make you leave all bags at the front with your camera. I kept mine and tried to take some pics as these were royal gifts again so quite extravagantOn one area they had a giant gold throne you could see thru glass windows in a black marble chamber. There was an army officer at the front so I couldn't really take picsThe main area was a giant rotunda...

The next stop was the Brunei Museum which is east of the city centre and needs to be reached by car transport. Photos are not allowed again and I was made to leave all bags at the front.The museum has three wings on the ground floor, natural history, Islamic, collection, and the history of oil and gas. The three wings on the second floor were closed.As I was the first visitor at 9am the ladies who were the attendants were all standing at the front chatting togeth...

This morning I had the breakfast buffet at 730 and was still feeling a bit funny from last nites dinner buffet. I had half a day to explore Brunei some more before my late afternoon flight back to Malaysia.Brunei city can be done in about 4 hours if you have your own transport. However, since its so difficult to reach this country with few direct flights and I probably will never come again I wanted to spend the extra day and not be so rushed or use expensive cab...