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Important notice
- Bookings must be made at least three (3) days before the tour date.
- Minimum of two (2) people per booking
- Our standard rate includes pickup and drop-off services from selected city hotels only. An additional transfer surcharge applies to pickup and drop-off outside the city area or from hotels not on our list.
- Additional charges apply for Chinese-, Cantonese-, Japanese-, and Korean-speaking tour guides, subject to availability.
- Rates do not apply to cruise passengers from Muara Port.
Tour Description
This 2.5-hour tour starts with pick up from your hotel and transfer to the boat jetty in the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. Board an open-deck local wooden boat for a cruise along the Brunei River. This experience gives you a view of two contrasting worlds – on one side is the modern developing capital city of Brunei and on the other, the reflective serenity of Kampong Ayer, one of the largest water villages in Southeast Asia.
Your guide will point out a cable-stayed bridge to you. Connecting the city centre and the water village, the bridge is named after the present Queen consort – the Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha Bridge. The second longest single-pylon cable stayed bridge in the world, it has a tower that rises to the height of 157 metres – a number that also stands for the birthday of HM The Sultan, 15th July.
The river safari cruise will pass by Nurul Iman Palace – official residence of The Sultan, it is the world’s largest residential palace in the world with 1,788-rooms. The cruise will then slow down so visitors can appreciate the mangrove world, a cradle for myriad marine life. Look for unique mudskipper fish that live on land and underwater, blue-throated and small red kingfishers, white egrets, night herons, and rare endangered proboscis monkeys, which usually gather near the river in the early morning and at dusk. Found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, Indonesia, these odd-looking primates are characterised by the males having large bright orange coloured, pendulous noses. In Brunei, you do not have to travel far into the jungle to see them as many may be sighted on the river safari cruise.
