A stop over in Brunei
Summary
If flying the long haul from Europe to Australia / South Pacific, it’s actually quite nice to time your flights so that you have half a day or so in Brunei, which is about the right amount of time needed. Customs allow you to clear and have a wander / taxi around to see the city and come back for the final leg of the flight
For a fun half day, I’d suggest jumping in a water taxi to the small group of stilt villages just over the water on the south bank of Kampong Ayer, then head back to the centre to take a view of the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque and try the local sticky specialty of Ambuyat in one of the food courts of hawker stands
Not exactly a highlight of South East Asia, but it serves a purpose to break up the 24 hours on a plane
Experiences nearby
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Score Detail
Background - how many times have you asked someone what a travel experience was like and the response was "amazing" or "awesome"? That response is nice to know, but it makes it hard to differentiate that experience compared to others. That is exactly what these scores are trying to do - differentiate the experience by giving a score out of 10 based on 6 categories and then giving an overall experience score
This overall experience score is calculated by: take the highest of the "Culture" or "Nature" score (1-10) + "Fun factor" (1-10) + "Avoiding the crowds" (1-10) + highest of the "Unique" or "World Famous score" (1-10). Then convert into a score out of 100
Extra detail - the logic being that I find all of the 6 individual scores important, but I don't want to mark an experience down just because it doesn't cover both "Culture" and "Nature", or because it isn't both "World Famous" and "Unique". Take the examples of Safari in The Serengeti and walking through Rome - they both appeal at opposite ends of the nature / culture spectrum, and you can have a fantastic time without needing to appeal to both sides. So, their overall scores aren't penalized for their lack of one or the other, and I've done the same for "World Famous" vs "Unique". But . . . I do think that the "Fun factor" of an experience is important, irrelevant of other factors, and so is "Avoiding the Crowds" (or where there are crowds that add to the experience). So, both of these scores are standalone