It's cloudy and humid to start the week. We stop in at StopNGo, the handy agency across the road, to fix a boat trip todya. First we walk about 1k and I'm sweating already. We find the local dentist and for $5 she glues my errant back molar cap back on. She gets it on very oddly and in 2 days my tooth and gums are sore but it falls out again, so I'll now leave it that way til I get home. Another thou for the dentist I'm sure!
We've hired a boat to visit the famous Pagoda up river. A guy comes on a motorbike and escorts us while we walk a few yards to the waterfront where his boat comes to pick us up right there! Nobody peaks English but it doesn't matter, Mr. Tien has explained we want to go up the river, visit the pagoda and get dropped off on the other side by the Citadel. It all works like a charm and is one third the price our hotel wants for the same trip. ($15 for just under 3 hours)
It's not that impressive as a pagoda but nice enough and there's a monk's Austin car there from about 1920, the one he rode to town and then immolated himself to protest French invasion! The gardens are nice. We return to the Citadel Museum that we missed the first time around and it was worth the return trip to see the beautiful collection. The cab ride home is nearly 3 times what it was to go before! Still only $3...
We find the recommended Tropical Garden Restaurant which is in the busy tourist section a wee walk from our hotel, and try some more local specialities, but the duck is strange, almost like Chinese ginger beef in being cooked twice over! 3 appies, duck and roasted eggplant and 5 beers is $35.
En route home we find the double silk sleeping bag for $6 (useful for our boat and rain trips we understan...) and stopo off for decadent coffee and chocolate cake on the walk home.
We've had some rain sprinkles today, but it looks like we are in for some nice weather at last.
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