STRANDED in Brunei... no phone, no plan [solo travel story]

Since moving to Thailand and living in Chiang Mai, traveling to new countries became a big priority of ours. I've always been intrigued by those smaller countries I know nothing about. Brunei was always one of them, having lived in the Philippines twice before, it was so close yet for some reason I just never went.
This time, I'm glad I did! I was hoping to focus on finding jungle durian in Borneo and Brunei, but the lack of them actually turned this trip into a whole new adventure.

[@AzmanHjAsmat]

dude its not arabic language on the sign board, they are still malay but written using arabic characters, we call it 'jawi' writting

[@nofearnomad]

Oh wow I didn't realize that! So when you read it, it's got the malay pronounciation?

[@Ezalian]

⁠@@nofearnomad Correct! It’s Malay but in arabic script which we call “Jawi”. Old Malay uses Jawi character to write. So all malay can actually read it no matter if you’re malaysian or bruneian. We all can read that.

[@nofearnomad]

@Ezalian thanks so much for this clarification, you guys have so much unique history.

[@AGENTLS007]

​​@@nofearnomadYea even in English also you can pronounce but write in jawi, such
يو أر امازينڠ(you are amazing)

[@nofearnomad]

@@AGENTLS007 is this taught in school alongside malay?

[@lovelybella8]

welcome to brunei 😊

[@ellybrown6369]

I was born in thailand grew up in Australia and lived in brunei for awhile. I loved brunei, even joined a netball team 😂

[@nofearnomad]

What do you like better?

[@norulzadanan6591]

Scooters or motorcycle being use for hobby only.. and u may see them during weekend... Weekdays seldom.. 😊 @nofearnomad

[@nofearnomad]

This is so interesting to me!

[@tubekau]

Welcome to brunei, the arabic writing you see everywhere, is literally transliteration of words from malay in alphabet to arabic, in arabic font or we call it jawi, of course some english words are also translated into malay but in jawi writings, For example, when you see the SULTAN in alphabet, the jawi/arabic writing and pronounciation is SULTAN also, unless its in english like PIZZA HUT, it will be translated into malay word and written in jawi (the malay word is PONDOK PIZZA)

[@nofearnomad]

This is very interesting, I've never seen it before!

[@markusgalli]

Gotta watch the whole video later, definitely interesting country🙌

[@nofearnomad]

Totally worth a visit!

[@lovelybella8]

most bruneian have car so we don't really need scooter or motorcycle.

[@someonenewers]

Hope you enjoyed your stays in Brunei!

[@nofearnomad]

Definitely loved it!

[@Norman_Lazarevich]

​@@nofearnomadAre you still in Brunei?

[@nofearnomad]

@@Norman_Lazarevich I returned to Thailand!

[@AnaM-ng5sv]

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