Monday, March 17, 2008

Sunday 16th March 2008

We set our alarm for 9.30am this morning and then, after breakfast, hung around our hotel. We checked out at the last possible minute and then went for a walk. We headed back across the Perfume River to the Northern part of the city and visited the Dong Ba Market. The markets sell pretty much all the same stuff, but this time we managed to find a really cool set of chopsticks - so we bought them for when we get home.

The rest of our afternoon was spent wandering around the city. When we got back to the area of our hotel we decided to go into the only 5 Star hotel in the area, the Imperial Palace, for a look around. When we were inside we found that there was a casino and went in for a 'flutter'. In true form - like every other casino we've visited on this trip - it didn't take long for us to start losing money. The worrying thing was, after just a couple of minutes we were already 100k down! Luckily it was only Dong - so was only just over £3 (phew). We cut our loses and returned to our hotel to hang about in the reception area.

Our bus turned up at about 6pm and we got on, found our 'beds' (it was a sleeper bus) and bedded in for the 13 hour journey to the Capital...

A 13 hour drive... oh joy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

great reading benjamin are you morphin into nikki?you have gay hair and that green top needs to returnrd to nikki ( fag says what ) UNC