Four Paws Bear Sanctuary

Early-ish breakfast and Ami's (massage man) brother gave us a lift to the bear sanctuary for 400k (£8) which was slightly cheaper than a Grab. The driver was lovely and was trying to work on his English so we did a lot of Google translate
We joined a tour for 250k where we watched a video about bile farming and the work they do and then had a tour around the sanctuary. We watched a bear close up for ages. They had about 46 moon bears and 1 sun bear and they eat up to 5kg a day of fruit and veg and smoothies.
Anna was hungry so we had an early lunch, noodles for me, Banh mi for Anna and fairy tea - sugar, lime and blue pea, a vibrant purple colour. Anna had salt coffee - all v yummy. Then Anna bought half the gift shop!
We went back on the skywalk which is above the enclosures and watched them being fed at 1pm - they call them in before this (they recognise their names) and then the keepers can enter the enclosures and spread and hide the food. Another of Ami's friends drove us back and we had some chill time before walking to Hang Mua lookout (£100k) which is 15 mins around the corner. It's a 20 min walk up some steps to give an amazing view across the rivers and mountains. We made it up for sunset with a zillion other tourists. The sunset wasn't that amazing but it was beautiful none the less. I had a cinnamon bun I'd picked up on the way.
We looked for somewhere to eat on the walk back. Everywhere was deserted but we settled on Hoang Long Quan restaurant. They had chicken with lemongrass and chilli so Anna asked if we could have it with tofu instead. She didn't speak any English so we weren't sure what we would get but we had a delicious, humongous plate each of lovely tofu, however no rice. We were both happy though. Afterwards she bought us some big grapefruit / orange segments and sat down and started peeling them for us and playing charades conversation. So lovely and she showed Anna her trees where she grew the fruit. She only charged us 60k for each meal whereas the chicken one had been listed for 120k.
Back to our room for an early night listening to karaoke?/wailing from somewhere across the fields. It's the weekend so perhaps a wedding. There was a lady in a wedding dress up at Hang Mua.Read more