15th October

Good morning Tay ninh.
Bob and I head down to the breakfast restaurant, and were a little unsure as to what we would find, as we understood there was no restaurant for evenings. I was surprised to see a very nice Resturant, with what appeared to be business men having breakfast. The selection of breakfast, was limited to local foods. Pho, a Vietnamese soup with noodles and some chicken slices or beef. I didn't have any, but had some fruit, some toast, with a fried egg. Which gets cooked as required. I looked around the room, and spotted these glorious lights. They are so pretty.

After breakfast,  we went for a walk around the area. Our main target was to find a cord, that would work the laptop on the local electrical sockets. So we walked and looked in numerous little shops, asked with our limited knowledge of words. Every one was so helpful and tried to help as much as they could. We went into one place, and almost everyone in the shop came over to see if they could help. After some time, and we got directions to a little shop 500 meters away, and guess what. The lady had exactly what we needed. And not one knowledge of English. We still get lots of looks from the local folk. 

We come back to our air cond haven to recover from the heat outside. 

We again venture outside to find some lunch, and decided to eat at a place with no English. We had chicken pho, and I really enjoyed what I had. 

We made our way to the shopping centre when we found 4 cake shops, beautiful iced and decorated. They weren't open earlier.  Amongst our walk, i noticed a shop called Face Shop, so i am guessing it is for make up. Or putting a new face over the old one.

Again, crossing the roads is one of timing and no hesitation. He who hesitates, get run over. But I must admit, it is getting easier. With a bit more language knowledge, I could get accustomed to the life here. It is busy, but not maddingly busy. It is really weird to have people look at us though. 

What I cannot work out though, is everybody rides scooters, motorbikes or bikes, but they are all so thin. We figure that is part of the reason, we get looks to, is that we are walking. No one seems to walk.

We get what we need from the supermarket, and head back to the motel, to end the day.