A very eye opening afternoon

After a very jam-packed tour yesterday we decided to take it easy this morning and head to Starbucks after breakfast to do some planning for Cambodia. I do feel like we should be brand reps for Starbucks now with all the different ones we have visited! After a couple of hours of researching and booking we went for some lunch at a place we'd seen the night before that looked promising. Sadly it was our most disappointing food experience yet. As you can see from my photo we were happy with the food, even though it looked nothing like the pictures at all we remained optimistic. It however tasted awful with different elements being hot and cold, cold noodles are not nice, and we had about half the portion size as shown. We didn't enjoy the meal at all and experienced the staff chatting and texting out the back, grunting when Nick asked where the toilet was and complete lack of serive. The biggest disappointment however came when we went to pay, when we finally got the bill that is after 20 minutes. Extra money had been added and when I asked what for she said it was for the wet towels we had been given during the meal to wipe our hands, baring in mind they had no napkins on offer and we didn't ask for these towels. Obviously we were very annoyed she hadn't told us this when she gave them to us which lead her to look through about 7 menus to find one with the correct page that says about the charge in small at the bottom on the back page. We gave up disputing it and walked off very disappointed and in need of an ice cream! So that's what we got! We didn't let it ruin our day and headed to the War Remnants Museum which we wished we had given more time in the day to visit as it was so informative and eye opening to see. Having been to Auschwitz at 15 I felt a little prepared for this museum but I was so wrong. The section they had on the imprisonment and torture of the Vietnamese soilders was so hard and difficult to read. Differently to the museums regarding the Nazi concentration camps this exhibit listed every brutal and unthinkable method used with photographs and real accounts of torture used of different individuals. How anyone even thought of some of the things they did to people is just disturbing in itself. The level of suffering inflicted with torture during this war seemed far greater than I had learned about previously in Germany. The museum was so informative and eye opening that it was a shame we didn't get to finish it all with reading everything before they closed. Afterwards we headed to see the local cathedral which is designed based on Notre Dam as well as the post office that was built by the French also. For dinner we went somewhere more westernised and had an amazing pizza to make up for our awful lunch. Nick had our second sugar cane juice of the trip and I discovered a love for passion fruit panna cotta. A very trying day but eye opening day indeed.Lue lisää