Day 2

Well we had an eventful day. Tonight we saw the water puppet show which was steeped in traditional craftsmanship and excellent for what it was. There was live music/singing and about 8 puppeteers.

Taxi ride on way home was double the price and when I complained the guy changed a 50,000 note for a 10,000 and claimed I had not paid enough.. ^^*()()__)(*& don't think we will take taxis for a while.

We went to zoo but stretched out so only really saw some deer,elephants and had lunch and kids did a number of rides.

Before that we had walked around and saw some big sites such as the War Museum (which had feutuses?? of babies with birth defects because of chemicals used in war here). Many siamese twins.. disgusting what the effects were on the people here.

There were some US planes and helicopters etc and we saw a guilitine. Grandpa finds anything re the war really really distasteful and I don't think he would go with us to visit the Chi chu tunnels out of town so won't push it.

We saw one of the big water parks on a bus trip we did to the end of the line.. and know that is probably not suitable for our girls or well it looks like oodles of walking and too hard carrying Lotus that far

We might do a train trip someone on Monday and Mekong delta trip Saturday.

The cyclo guys are very nice to us and we have 2 of them picking us up at 8am in morning to go to Hong Kong market.

We saw the big church that is a replica of one in France and the post office was 'breathtakingly' beautiful - French colonial building with massive ceilings. Inside the entrance were wooden carved phone booths aka James Bond for sure.. really beautiful.

We saw a few more modern shops downtown but they are small.. we chilled out at fancy place for ice cream.

There seem to be some high rise building being built on outer areas.