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Tours and recreational activities:
For more detailed information and booking, Please contact the below:

Freme Travel Services Sdn Bhd
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Tel : +673 2234280   Fax: +673 2232544
Email: fremeinb@brunet.bn & sugu@freme.com

Website:
www.freme.com

Hotlink: http://www.freme.com/bn_bwn_bruneitours_b2c_fit_en_bnd/content/web/inboundtours.htm


Please state that you are a participant in the IET conference in the remarks area to be eligible for discounts on all the available tours

City Tours

Half day City & Water Village Tour
Tour code: B 02 (Minimum 2 – pax)
Duration: 3.5 hours

 
O
verview: ~ B$45 nett per person


On this city tour, you will be discovering Brunei. Drive past the Lapau, Dewan Majlis, Sir Omar Ali Saiffuddien Mosque and
visit the Brunei Museum, The Royal Regalia Centre, Jame Asr Hassanil Bokaih Mosque.


Take a boat ride by local “Water Taxi”around Brunei River and visit to the local houses built on stilts where local cakes and tea will be served to you.


The tour will be end by a photo at the
Istana Nurul Iman (Sultan’s Palace)
 

Time Program

0900 or 1330

0910 or 1340

0945 or 1445

1000 or 1500

1045 or 1545

1130 or 1630


1230 or 1700
 

Departure from hotel.

Visit The
Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque.

Photo Stop at
Istana Nurul Iman (Sultan’s Palace)

Visit the
Royal Regalia Centre.

Visit the
Brunei Museum.


Visit the Water Village


Transfer Back to hotel

  
 

City Tours

Full Day City Tour
Tour code: B 04 (Minimum 2 – pax)
Duration: 06 hours

 
Overview:
~ B$90 nett per person

On this full day tour you will visit many renowned places of interest. You will be driven past the Lapau, the Dewan Majlis and the Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque. You will visit the Tamu (Open Market), the Malay Technology Museum, the Brunei Museum, tomb of the fifth Sultan of Brunei, (Sultan Bolkiah 1485-1524).You will proceed for lunch at a local restaurant. You continuing your tour after lunch, visiting the Regalia Centre, the Sultan's Palace (Istana Nurul Iman) and take a water taxi ride to the water village and visit a house there, where local cakes and tea will be served.

Your tour will end after your visit to the new mosque- Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque.

 

Time Program

0900

0910

0930

1000

1015

1130

1230

1330

1415

1445

1530

1630

 

Departure from hotel.

Visit to
Tamu (Open Market)

Visit to
Omar Ali Saiffuddien Mosque

Visit to
5th Sultan’s Tomb

Visit to
The Brunei Museum

Visit to
Malay Technology Museum


Lunch at local restaurant


Visit
Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque

Photo stop at
Istana Nurul Iman

Visit to
Royal Regalia Centre


Visit to ‘Water Village’

Transfer back to hotel

  
 

City Tours

BSB ~ Brunei By Night
Tour Code: B 05A
Dinner at local rest  included ~
3.0 Hours Daily Depart At 1830 Hours

 
Overview:
 ~ B$55 nett per person

Enjoy your dinner in a local restaurant. Depart for an evening cruising around Bandar Seri Begawan", drive past the city and stop for a photo shot of the Beautiful view of The Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque and drive pass the Nurul Iman Palace where the sultan resides an from here your will make another stop at the glittering of the Jame’ Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque for a quick photo and from here you make a little shop at the Gadong night local market where you can taste some local delicacies at your own expenses and also can view the various type of vegetables and fruits and well as cloths. You will transfer back to hotel after the night market visit.

 

Time Program

1830

1900

2000

2030

2045

2100


2145

 

Depart from hotel.

Dinner at local restaurant.

Proceed to Omar Ali Saiffudin mosque for a quick photo stop

Drive pass the Nurul Iman palace

Photo stop at the Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque for night

Brief visit to the Gadong night Market before back to hotel


Back to hotel

  
 

Information:

  1. Mosque will be close on Thursday & Friday for Non-Muslim visit.

  2. No photograph allowed to be taken in the mosque & Brunei Museum.

  3. Ladies visitors are required to wear a black cot (provided by mosque) before enter to mosque

  4. Shoes to be taken off before entering to mosque.

  5. Shoes to be taken off before entering to Royal Regalia Centre.
 

 

Outdoors Tours:

 

We will provide:

  • Morning/afternoon teas

  • All transport - river

  • Lot’s of things to see and do

  • A guide to describe the area and its wildlife.

  • Safety equipment

  • Rain-cape, in case of an afternoon storm

What to Bring:

  • Lots of sun protection.

  • Camera – plus lots of film

  • An effective sun hat (preferably with chin strap)

  • Some small snacks if you think you’ll get hungry on route (please don’t drop the wrappers).

  • Plastic bags to waterproof your valuable items (e.g. camera) on the river trips

  • Your favorite insect repellent

  • Your sense of adventure

  
 

Information:

  1. You will be in the outdoors for the duration of this tour and may be affected by heat, cold, rain, and sun.

The water level could be high or low depending upon recent rainfalls and tides.

The program may need to be adjusted to meet the conditions.


Our staff will advise you of the current conditions and whether these might be any alterations to your schedule, if necessary.

 

 

Ulu Temburong National Park:

Day Tour
Tour Code: B16 & 17
Overview:
~ B$120 nett per person











 

 
This is an introduction to Brunei’s unique wilderness rainforest region.

The Ulu Temburong National Park is protected and preserved for scientific research and low impact visitors. This day excursion is a short immersion in this amazing environment, for people with limited time. An amazing snapshot to a environment that is well protected for all to see.


You will travel by local water taxi from Bandar through a network of rivers and channels around the back of Brunei Bay.You’ll pass by dense mangrove islands and possibly see wildlife that maybe enjoying the early morning along the way.

The journey will continue you from Bangar, the regional capital of Temburong, to Batang Duri (the end of the road). After morning tea, travel upstream through the rapids of the Temburong River using traditional longboats, to the National Park entrance. At tree top level you can enjoy the panoramic view of the rainforest unfolding in front of you.Enjoy a great lunch of local specialities beside the river, swim and relax, before returning back downstream by longboat or inflatable raft to Rainforest Lodge for afternoon tea and freshen up.   Depart from our Terminal building, to Bangar to catch a water Taxi back to Bandar Seri Begawan.

 

Time Program

0730


0815

0830

0900



0930

1030



1230


1400

1445

1515


1545

1700


 

Depart BSB
-
Water taxi from Residency jetty.

Arrive at Bangar Temburong.

Depart Bangar by vehicle for Batang Duri.

Arrive at Rainforest Lodge
- Morning Tea
-
Introduction & Safety instruction

Depart by Longboat to Ulu Temburong National Park


Arrive at National Park Centre
-
Registration
-
Walk on elevated pathways to climb the Canopy Walkway

Lunch Beside the river.
-
Swim and relax

Optional * rafting down stream

Depart to Rainforest Lodge.

Arrive at Rainforest Lodge – Batang Duri.
-
Afternoon Tea & freshen up

Vehicle transfer to Bangar

Depart Bangar in water taxi to BSB

Arrive BSB

 

  
 

Ulu Temburong National Park:

BSB Mangrove River Safari
Tour Code: B09 (Minimum 2- pax)
Overview: ~ B$50 nett per person





 

 
Just minutes from the center of Bandar Seri Begawan are isolated mangroves where nature still dominates.
The boat leaves the center of Bandar, traveling past the old and new Water Villages housing towards the mangrove-lined waterways.
 
Moving quietly along the narrow mangrove channels, stopping to listen and look for the birds and animal life that call the mangroves home.
 
If you are lucky you can observe the shy proboscis monkey. (Only found in Borneo)
 
Our guide will explain the mangrove ecology and some of the diversity of plant and animal life in the tangle of mangroves, vines, palms and trees.
 
The boat returns to the center of Bandar Seri Begawan stopping along the way to visit a local house to have morning or afternoon tea.

 

Time Program

AM / PM
Departures
0800 / 1600




0830 / 630


0915 /1715

0930 / 1730



0945 / 1745

1000 / 1800
 



Depart from Yayasan jetty
- Watch the Water village come alive
- Pass the water village on the way to the mangroves


Explore the Mangroves
- Look for the local wildlife

Leave Mangroves

Arrive at the water village
- Walk along the maze of walkways on the water village
- Visit a local house & light refreshments.

Depart the water village

Arrive at the Yayasan jetty

  
 

Notes
*
Itinerary stated above are only for reference. Final itinerary / program will be given by tour guide on tour date.

* Tour guide reserves the final decision to change the itinerary due to unforeseeable reason.
 

We will provide:
- Trained English / Malay / Chinese Speaking Guide services.
-
All transportation.
-
Life jacket during boat rides on the river.