We managed to book a hotel again, which has no outside shoes inside policy. In front of the door there are all the flip-flops and sandals. Just like the stack of white sandals, they try to offer the guests constantly. Today, when I stopped to check the menu, a little Vietnamese lady came to meet and greet me, waited until I was about to enter, stepped aout of her sandals and offered those to me. What a service! However they must think by now that we are some kind of hillbillies, because they haven't been very successfull in making us wear the commonly used sandals and we still run up to our floor barefoot.
We ended up visiting an opening day of a huge shopping mall and looked at all the people taking pictures with all kinds of mascots. From there we started our way to the local Eiffel Tower and found a Cao Dai temple on the way. We thought, we were decent, borderline prude, when leaving our shoes outside and entering from the left side, meant for ladies, but once we were already leaving and were putting our shoes on, there was suddenly a serious looking man telling us to wait. Just in case we did not do that, but he still caught us on the street and pressed two copies of Cao Dai discipline in our hands.
We checked out the local Eiffel Tower (my fourth), ate in our cafe a fruit plate and had a short siesta.
For the afternoon the weather has become nicely cloudy and it didn't feel like being on BBQ fire anymore. We started our way to few pagodas we saw on the map and to the night market. Before we reached the first bridge, a guy approached us, telling he is a 4th year student in the Tourism College and would highly appreciate the opportunity to practice his English. Among other things, he had mastered the phrase "Your eyes are blue as an ocean". Two girls joined us, who probably wanted to practice their language skills too. The first one didn't say a word and the other one said a lot of words, but to me it's still unclear, in which language. I didn't recognize even one word.
We arrived to the pagodas and started to get the feeling that we must be off main tourist paths, because also there a guy came to us with obvious wish to practice his English. Well... he needs some more practicing too before reaching the Oxford level.
We tried not to get overrun by motorbikes on the night market, had dinner in our restaurant and returned to the hotel. We ordered some mango smoothies in our lobby, watched the children building castles with the coke cans from fridge and came to our room to pack the bags again.
We ended up visiting an opening day of a huge shopping mall and looked at all the people taking pictures with all kinds of mascots. From there we started our way to the local Eiffel Tower and found a Cao Dai temple on the way. We thought, we were decent, borderline prude, when leaving our shoes outside and entering from the left side, meant for ladies, but once we were already leaving and were putting our shoes on, there was suddenly a serious looking man telling us to wait. Just in case we did not do that, but he still caught us on the street and pressed two copies of Cao Dai discipline in our hands.
We checked out the local Eiffel Tower (my fourth), ate in our cafe a fruit plate and had a short siesta.
For the afternoon the weather has become nicely cloudy and it didn't feel like being on BBQ fire anymore. We started our way to few pagodas we saw on the map and to the night market. Before we reached the first bridge, a guy approached us, telling he is a 4th year student in the Tourism College and would highly appreciate the opportunity to practice his English. Among other things, he had mastered the phrase "Your eyes are blue as an ocean". Two girls joined us, who probably wanted to practice their language skills too. The first one didn't say a word and the other one said a lot of words, but to me it's still unclear, in which language. I didn't recognize even one word.
We arrived to the pagodas and started to get the feeling that we must be off main tourist paths, because also there a guy came to us with obvious wish to practice his English. Well... he needs some more practicing too before reaching the Oxford level.
We tried not to get overrun by motorbikes on the night market, had dinner in our restaurant and returned to the hotel. We ordered some mango smoothies in our lobby, watched the children building castles with the coke cans from fridge and came to our room to pack the bags again.
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