Welcome To Kuala Belait
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Last Update:
Nov 17th, 2016 |
So you have landed in Kuala Belait (or are heading this way). Welcome. This is a unique and interesting place to be living.
This site is designed to hopefully help you with everything you need to know about living in Kuala Belait.
If we have missed anything, please ask or let us know, so we can add it for others.
This site is designed to hopefully help you with everything you need to know about living in Kuala Belait.
If we have missed anything, please ask or let us know, so we can add it for others.
Living in Kuala Belait
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Where do I get..... ? How can I organise......?
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If you have anything to add or find anything wrong (things do change without warning here) please let us know via the contact page, so we can change/add it.
Where do I get..... ? How can I organise......?
This site is designed to answer those questions.
If you have anything to add or find anything wrong (things do change without warning here) please let us know via the contact page, so we can change/add it.
Introduction to Kuala Belait
Kuala Belait (KB), which merges with the oil town of Seria, is 65km from Tutong, 110km from Bandar. With a population of 70,000 in the district of Belait, it is certainly not a little country town. A few kilometres beyond the town is the border with Sarawak, Malaysia. It is completely self-contained administratively, commercially and in what it offers in sports and leisure facilities. Due to the presence of Brunei Shell, the town, apart from its typically S.E. Asian centre, is distinctly more ‘expatriate’ in flavour and feel than elsewhere in Brunei. There are large areas of bungalow-style company housing, significant numbers of British and Dutch oil workers and their families. The Chinese presence is also strong and there are many indigenous people from up the Belait River and from Sarawak. The oil and gas plants are quite unobtrusive but the effect of having offshore rigs are generally detrimental to the beaches. Sports and leisure facilities, centred in, but not exclusive to, the expatriate-dominated Panaga Club are impressively wide-ranging. In addition there is the more local orientated sports facility of BSRC. Out of town, the Belait district has the finest forest in Brunei, Temburong excepted, and villages and longhouses on the Belait River are well worth a visit. Many people take regular opportunities to visit Miri, a bustling city just over the Sarawak border, which provides much in the way of shopping and entertainment. |