a great experience driving in the Brunei Sultanate

On the 3rd day of Eid el Fitri last week, we went to the Sultanate Brunei Darussalam visiting our relatives, In-Laws, nephews, nieces and friends. The only phobia that I had was basically crossing the two Malaysia and Brunei Check-points. But, Alhamdullillah, it was a great day, the weather was on our side and the traffic was to our favor. We crossed the check-points within 15 minutes mainly due to the improved system of both immigrations and obviously less traffic flowing to Brunei. What exactly I wanted to share here is about not only to smooth, wide and straight Brunei – Kuala Belait to Bandar Sri Begawan Highway, but also the positive attitude and the highly civic minded of the Bruneians. They were very ‘pious’ observing the road system and very courteous to other users, which have made our one hour cruise with an average speed of 140 km/hour very fascinating. The fun cruising was however, disrupted by the selfish and non-civic minded few drivers driving Malaysian registered cars. I’m not too sure whether they were Malaysian, but they looked like Malaysian. Insensible and egocentric, they drove their cars along the express lane with no sensible effort to give way to those at their rear who wanted to use the lane.This phenomena or habit is quite a normal scene in Bintulu and Miri. Frustrated and irritated though, I could not blame them totally for the fact that there are no good highways in these two northern divisions of Sarawak, hence, their ignorant and being oblivious about highway driving etiquette.