When we came out of the dorm onto the veranda we saw that it rained in the night, but it had stopped now.
Well, off to breakfast, which was not bad. I created my own Vietnamese Breakfast roll, with bacon, scrambled egg and chilli sauce.
After I finished this an elder lady sat down at our table and introduced herself as a Nina the travel coach. Apparently she coaches people how to travel well. Specifically, single travellers who are not yet comfortable with travelling alone. I was surprised there was a market for something like this but it does seem to be a lucrative business opportunity.
Now it was time to explore the forbidden city. Similar to Beijing this is the royal palace of Hue (which is the former imperial city of Vietnam) and is set up in a similar architectural style, just much, much smaller and not as well restored.
Therefore we could just roam around where ever we liked.
We visited some of the halls and temples on the grounds and then took a rest in a little tea house with pond surrounding it. This is where we realized: "life could be worse" - sitting there drinking tea, with not much more on our minds, other then "maybe the rain stops soon" and "I like these roof tiles over there".
On the way out of the palace Basti acquired a nice, very authentic and reasonably priced, lamp for is home.
Unfortunately the Lassi women weren't there yet, otherwise we would have gotten a drink at the first lady this time.
We had a long bus journey ahead of us, all the way up to Hanoi (about 700km or 14 hours), so we went to the supermarket to stock up on snacks and drinks in case we would not get any food on the way again.
For the same reason we stuffed ourselves with a nice two course meal before getting on the bus.
We again got the good, fully reclining seats in the back but this time the bus had working reading lamps or wifi, so we were stuck with hanging around and sleeping.
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