May the guide & car duly picked us up and gave us plenty of choices to include in our day for which we chosed a visit to the 1956 built palace which was very interesting bit by the time we got down to the bomb shelters I was sweating for Britain

We visited a top quality lacquer factory and was shown the process involved - resulting on clare buying a price for Karens wedding and myself an addition to our art collection , May said that she has. Never seen anybody get more than 5% off and therefor was astonished with my 10%

Had a Vietnamese meal soup which was lovely and tasty

Spent the rest of the afternoon at the Vietnamese museum which which seemed to show avert facet of it's past from bronze age to
This north - south conflict through to it's present day I certainly have a better understanding now.

Before heading to the airport we popped into a temple which had an amalgam of everything from Buddhism. Shinto . Ancestor worship all along side each other we even passed a catholic church