I woke upward simply about 6:00 AM to ready myself together with to laid upward my luggage, together with therefore checked out of my hotel inward Kota Kinabalu. Since breakfast is non included inward my accommodation, I hurried to KFC to accept breakfast, located simply behind the edifice where I stayed.
Kota Kinabalu to Bandar Seri Begawan
On my 2nd solar daytime inward Kota Kinabalu, I've purchased a motorcoach ticket inward advance going to Bandar Seri Begawan inward Brunei. The Sipitang Express alone caters this road amongst ticket amounting to RM100 leaving Kota Kinabalu at exact 8:00 inward the morn amongst move fourth dimension of 8-10 hours. It's station is located parallel to the Kota Kinabalu City Park.
When buying a ticket, the passport needs to presented for them to encode the mention together with passport information on the ticket. Along amongst the ticket, they volition every bit good mitt ii Negara Brunei Darussalam arrival cards to arrive at total up.
The nearly mutual together with easiest agency to instruct to Bandar Seri Begawan from from Kota Kinabalu is taking a ferry from Jesselton Point to Labuan Port, together with therefore transfer to some other ferry from Labuan Port to Serasa Port inward Brunei, together with therefore a motorcoach to the city. The move fourth dimension is faster every bit it volition alone accept six hours journey. However, since I stimulate got some fright of travelling past times the sea, I conduct the other option.
Pros together with Cons
There are some pros together with cons when choosing this option:
Pros
The motorcoach left Kota Kinabalu at just 8:00 AM. The next are the immigration borders that the motorcoach volition function past times through:
Kota Kinabalu to Bandar Seri Begawan
On my 2nd solar daytime inward Kota Kinabalu, I've purchased a motorcoach ticket inward advance going to Bandar Seri Begawan inward Brunei. The Sipitang Express alone caters this road amongst ticket amounting to RM100 leaving Kota Kinabalu at exact 8:00 inward the morn amongst move fourth dimension of 8-10 hours. It's station is located parallel to the Kota Kinabalu City Park.
When buying a ticket, the passport needs to presented for them to encode the mention together with passport information on the ticket. Along amongst the ticket, they volition every bit good mitt ii Negara Brunei Darussalam arrival cards to arrive at total up.
The nearly mutual together with easiest agency to instruct to Bandar Seri Begawan from from Kota Kinabalu is taking a ferry from Jesselton Point to Labuan Port, together with therefore transfer to some other ferry from Labuan Port to Serasa Port inward Brunei, together with therefore a motorcoach to the city. The move fourth dimension is faster every bit it volition alone accept six hours journey. However, since I stimulate got some fright of travelling past times the sea, I conduct the other option.
Pros together with Cons
There are some pros together with cons when choosing this option:
Pros
- Direct motorcoach from Kota Kinabalu to the urban gist oculus inward Brunei. No transfers.
- You'll instruct 8 passport stamps from the immigration stops betwixt Malaysia together with Brunei
- 8-10 hours move time. Advisable if you lot are non inward a hurry.
- Leaving Kota Kinabalu, the motorcoach rarely gets filled therefore the motorcoach takes passengers from stops along the agency but nearly passengers alight at Lawas, Sarawak.
The Journey
The motorcoach left Kota Kinabalu at just 8:00 AM. The next are the immigration borders that the motorcoach volition function past times through:
- Sindumin Border - Sabah, Malaysia (exit stamp) - three hours from departure
- Merapok Border - Sarawak, Malaysia (entry stamp)
- Mengkalap Border - Sarawak, Malaysia (exit stamp) - ii hours from edge entry
- Labu Border - Negara Brunei Darussalam (entry stamp) - ten minutes from Sarawak exit
- Ujung Jalan Border - Negara Brunei Darussalam (exit stamp) - forty minutes from Labu entry
- Pandaruan Border - Sarawak, Malaysia (entry stamp) -5 minutes from Ujung Jalan Border
- Tedungan Border - Sarawak, Malaysia (exit stamp) - 1 hr together with xxx minutes from Pandaruan
- Kuala Lurah Border - Negara Brunei Darussalam (entry stamp) - fifteen minutes from Malaysia exit
The immigration inward Kuala Lurah is the busiest together with the strictest of all. So hold upward ready amongst all the documents that the officers mightiness check; passport, flying itinerary together with hotel bookings.
I arrived at the waterfront inward Bandar Seri Begawan, simply about 5:00 PM together with walked to my hotel. That was a real long trip! Good luck!