7 star luxury to finish our month long honey moon!

We're now back in the UK after a fantastic end to our honeymoon in Brunei.  For me an absolute highlight was watching proboscis monkeys eating in the trees in Bandar Seri Bagawan (the capital) from a boat on the river.  these monkeys are only found in Borneo and have distinctive long noses and pot tummies so we were really lucky to see them.

Brunei is unlike any of the other countries we visited on the trip which made it quite an eye opener.  We experienced the opulence of the 7 star Empire Hotel on our last night (bless them - not only did they supply a birthday cake for Dave that I'd paid and booked in advance, they also treated him to a complementary birthday cake!) to long houses home to 5-7 families deep in the jungle.  The influences of the West were not at all felt in Brunei making it and its jungle one of the reasons I'm keen we go back!

On Thursday we did a scuba dive.  For various inexplicable reasons I was a complete wimp about the whole thing and had to be cajoled down but it was fantastic once we were down to 10m (and not 7 as Dave has put!) - bright blue fish, jelly fish and zebra striped fish were all there.

Dave with proboscis monkey!

 Surprise birthday cake!

 We're in a royal palace!!

Borobudur - world's largest Buddhist temple.

Fantastic end to a wonderful 4 weeks.... next job now is to convince Dave  a permanent move to the far East is required!!!!