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We left the homestay early, I'd slept on the living room floor so was woken up at 6am.
We drove to the next city in slow traffic, we made a stop before lunch to visit a puppet maker at his house. The old man learnt from his dad and carved them all by hand, they are used in a 7hour puppet show telling ancient stories. Apparently the kids these days aren't interested in watching it and it's more for tourists, after seeing the water puppets in Vietnam I can't say I blame them. They were all quite spooky and I'm sure they come alive at night and kill lonely tourists. After lunch we went to the 'famous' factory outlet, I was excited at finding a nice fake handbag and doing some shopping. As always, disappointment, any decent fake bag was really expensive so you might as well buy the real thing. There were a few shops on this street, not like is imagined it and I only bought some shorts. I've noticed the ratio of staff to customers is way out, worse than usual. I've been laughing about this for weeks, it takes two people to do any job here it's ridiculous. When paying your bill one person tells you the amount, you hand over the cash, they then hand it to another person who gets change, they tell the first person what change is due and then the first person gives you the change. In these shops everyone works in twos, I've decided it's so when they laugh and make jokes about tourists they have someone to laugh with...it's no fun laughing on your own is it and this way it makes the tourist feel super uncomfortable!
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, hotel, nap, movie, dinner, bed. Nobody really spoke at dinner because the restaurant had wifi and we hadn't had contact with the outside ok world for two whole days. But I guess when you're with some people, sometimes there are just no words. The restaurant was like a Muslim TGI's, no alcohol and no card games allowed. They had a live band though who were pretty good, I enjoy the Asian lyrics more than the real ones some times.
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