Sutton Valence Trip to Borneo

In July 2008, 15 students and 2 staff from Sutton Valence School’s combined cadet force travelled to Brunei where they stayed on the Army Base in Seria. The holiday included jungle survival training with the British Army and working at a school for mentally and physically handicapped children, as well as enjoying the local sights.

Flights, ground transportation and additional excursions were arranged by Medway Travel. The excursions included: Cinema Trip to The Empire Hotel, Brunei Shell Tour, Water Village with Wildlife Excursion, Sultan’s Birthday Trip, Brunei Heritage Tour and Temburong River Rafting. A final 3 nights’ stay at The Nexus Resort in Koto Kinabalu was also arranged at the end of their army life experience.

As part of Medway Travel’s commitment to engage with the local community and schools, students were encouraged to write an essay about their adventure holiday. The reports were then entered into a competition and the winners – Eleanor van Leeuwen from Kingswood and Josh Dearing from East Sutton – were presented with prizes of book tokens and travel guides by Medway Travel.

In her report, Eleanor describes the jungle experience with the Royal Gurkha Regiment , including their many varied trips arranged by us, and finishes by telling us about the last few days of the holiday at the Nexus resort hotel in Malaysia, with a visit to the orang-utan sancturary in Sarawak.

As summarised by Eleanor at the end of her report - 'Brunei is full of culture, beauty, history and lovely people. I'm so lucky I have experienced this country.If you ever get the opportunity to visit. DO IT!'

Josh wrote another amazing report, detailing this once in a lifetime experience, sharing training with the Gurkhas, also concluding by telling us about the well earned 3 day rest and relaxation resort stay at the end of the tour, and the visit to the orang-utans. 

In his words, 'This has been the best trip I have been on and it would be an understatement to say that the group and I thoroughly enjoyed it'. 

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