(The day after Halong Bay, I'm out of order here...)
We skip having much for breakfast today, as Ted is booked on the walking street food tour at 11:30 while I spend the afternoon at the hotel spa.
I'm having the Ocean package which is a salt/hot stone massage, then a fresh yogurt/seaweed body wrap (a first for me) and finally Nature Skin Dream facial. For 3 hours it's 50% off the usual price so I pay US$63. I submit my bod to the magic hands of Thuy and I love it. All that sitting on the bus for 4 hours each way this week has left its mark on my spine so she irons it all out. I've explained throough the English paking hostess that my right arm has lymphedema and must be treated with care and Thuy gets that and is very gentle, as good as the lymph therapists in Calgary. Beautiful music plays and the 3 hours flies by.
After the heavenly massage, she lays me oout on a sheet of saranwrap like a piece of beef, then annoints me with the sea mixture. It seems to dry in quite well. I turn over, stick to the saran and she proceeds to annount my front, wraps me in a towel, more sararn wrap, and leaves me there for about half an hour. I snooze gently in the soothing music. She then sets the shower to warm and I gently wash it all off and my body is super smooth all over, but I notice it especially on my hands. She's been careful to avoid my big toe which is still bound up and will stay that way til I get home now.
Ted comes back enthused from his food tour. Only 3 guests so personal service. He didn't try anything really outlandish, just good basic food. For $25 he got a dozen different foods, a lot like pho or meat soup, would have preferred more way out foods. Biggest treat - BBQ port on skewer with lemongrass. Also egg coffee? But they didn't try the civet coffee (we've seen weasel coffee advertised, I wonder if that is it? ) The cats ingest the coffee and you drink it once it's been digested, i.e. in civet poo, I don't think so. Ann Murphy says its smoother than normal cofee, we'll believe her!
Renewed and fed, we head off to the Ethnic Museum, a beautiful complex with two museum buildings and a specially good cultural display for the ethnic minorities, and an outside area with reproductions of many different ethnic group houses. There's a wildly enthusiastic shcool grooup visiting that day, who are spellbound also by the outdoor water puppet display which is free, an quite spectacular with fireworks, etc. which was missing from the indoor show we saw here in February.
We skip having much for breakfast today, as Ted is booked on the walking street food tour at 11:30 while I spend the afternoon at the hotel spa.
I'm having the Ocean package which is a salt/hot stone massage, then a fresh yogurt/seaweed body wrap (a first for me) and finally Nature Skin Dream facial. For 3 hours it's 50% off the usual price so I pay US$63. I submit my bod to the magic hands of Thuy and I love it. All that sitting on the bus for 4 hours each way this week has left its mark on my spine so she irons it all out. I've explained throough the English paking hostess that my right arm has lymphedema and must be treated with care and Thuy gets that and is very gentle, as good as the lymph therapists in Calgary. Beautiful music plays and the 3 hours flies by.
After the heavenly massage, she lays me oout on a sheet of saranwrap like a piece of beef, then annoints me with the sea mixture. It seems to dry in quite well. I turn over, stick to the saran and she proceeds to annount my front, wraps me in a towel, more sararn wrap, and leaves me there for about half an hour. I snooze gently in the soothing music. She then sets the shower to warm and I gently wash it all off and my body is super smooth all over, but I notice it especially on my hands. She's been careful to avoid my big toe which is still bound up and will stay that way til I get home now.
Ted comes back enthused from his food tour. Only 3 guests so personal service. He didn't try anything really outlandish, just good basic food. For $25 he got a dozen different foods, a lot like pho or meat soup, would have preferred more way out foods. Biggest treat - BBQ port on skewer with lemongrass. Also egg coffee? But they didn't try the civet coffee (we've seen weasel coffee advertised, I wonder if that is it? ) The cats ingest the coffee and you drink it once it's been digested, i.e. in civet poo, I don't think so. Ann Murphy says its smoother than normal cofee, we'll believe her!
Renewed and fed, we head off to the Ethnic Museum, a beautiful complex with two museum buildings and a specially good cultural display for the ethnic minorities, and an outside area with reproductions of many different ethnic group houses. There's a wildly enthusiastic shcool grooup visiting that day, who are spellbound also by the outdoor water puppet display which is free, an quite spectacular with fireworks, etc. which was missing from the indoor show we saw here in February.
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