An: Brunei

Where is Brunei? In fact, what is Brunei? Most people (myself included) have no clue that this tiny little country exists.

Whoever says travelling makes you smarter is a fucking dumbass. Travelling makes you infinitely more stupid. All this time I thought I was a pretty intelligent person, and now I’ve just realized that I don’t know shit about the world and my geography is pretty much on par with a donkey’s. For example, here were some of my previous beliefs about Asia:

Malaysia = Mongolia
Borneo was in the Amazon
Indonesia was near India
Philippines is where all of Malaysia and Indonesia actually is
Burma was in Africa
Cambodians are dirty, money-groveling, dishonest, low-life Asians (still confirmed to be true)

If you also thought one or more of these things, you’re probably an American.

Brunei is a miniscule speck on the huge island of Borneo in the south pacific (Borneo is divided between 3 countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, and miniscule Brunei).

This red square is being quite generous

On the way there in the plane, we saw a clusterfuck of oil rigs in the ocean. You could tell this country was making some serious dough on black gold.

Old money. That's how they roll.

Another mosque

I took like a million pictures

Without the filters

I was surprised to learn Brunei is one of top 5 richest countries in the world (and no, USA is not one of them). These lucky bastards struck oil but had like a 1% chance considering they have such little share of land on the island. Indonesia and Malaysia must be like…fuck our lives max.