freakseeker67
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Not worth visiting!

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Hmmmm…I rarely say places I’ve visited are not worth visiting, but Brunei is one of those places that if I never go there again, I won’t really care or miss it. It was unbelievably hot and humid when I was there…but it’s not so much the weather that I didn’t like. I’ve been to many hot and humid locales…it’s par for the course in that region of the world, so near the equator. But in a region that is home to Buddhism, and generally a very care-free, happy outlook on the world…Brunei is a repressed, hardcore Muslim state that would be better suited being located in the Persian Gulf vice the Pacific. The strongest drink you can obtain here is a cup of coffee, and as is typical in most Muslim nations, the women are covered up and treated like second class citizens. I’m not a fan of the way Muslim women are treated nor trained from birth that they are not a man’s equal. And as is typical of a Muslim nation fueled by oil like the nations in the Persian Gulf, the vast majority of that oil wealth is controlled by the royal family (Sultan of Brunei), and very little of it goes to the good of the nation. There wasn’t much to see other than many very ornate Muslim temples…they roll up the streets at about 2100, and not much to do but drink overpriced coffee and buy pirated DVDs and computer software. Yeah, pass on this place if you can.


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Holland Village

Not just in Brunei..

I thought most or all muslim countries do not allow drinking, include beer?

I guess if we travelled to such places, we have to be contented with drinking coffee, which isn’t a bad idea :)

Pirated DVDs seem to be every where in Asia including Brunei…except for Singapore of course! I won’t buy them, considering there’s no respect for the music and movie industries..

Thanks for the honest review of this place =)


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