The view of the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque with its golden roof and crazy green lights!
We spent two days in Brunei and that was more or less enough, as we were totally disappointed to find a normal, rather slummy looking Asian city, with the odd mall and newly built mosque, instead of the gold covered capital of one of the world’s richest men. We also saw no trace of the supposedly thousands of Bentleys, Mercedeses, Ferraris, etc. that the Sultan owns, and we wondered where would he be driving them?!?
All in all people seemed to be content living in this benevolent dictatorship as education and health care are free and no one pays any taxes whatsoever!
All in all people seemed to be content living in this benevolent dictatorship as education and health care are free and no one pays any taxes whatsoever!
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