The hostel offered free breakfast for the price of 2,5€…
They even served fried eggs and slices tomatoes and cucumber and Vietnamese tea.
After that, I went to the city.
First stop: a shopping mall for my “food research” including a Vietnamese chocolate. It was not a very good one but better than the last ones. Then, I walked to the citadel. After a few minutes, a man on a motorcycle stopped and in quite good English started a conversation. Soon, it focused on tourism, on spots and the way to get there: with him. He showed me a book with references from different people praising his kindness etc. I just wanted to walk around and visit that citadel and he a had a lot of arguments why I should go with him instead. I wanted to think about that until tomorrow but: he is “a poor man without a phone”. Now it was easier for me to stop the whole conversation, wish him a good day and walk on. I walked another 3min until a motorcycle-man accompanied me, starting a conversation. The first time, it took me 10min to stop it, now one. On my further way, I refined my technique and could stop that business while walking on and still being friendly.
But when I reached the citadel, my motivation to go in with many other tourists and all the time have to say no to different offers was quite low. The last point was, when I heard and saw an Austrian couple buying half a pineapple for 30000d. This is ~4x the price I (as another tourist!) had payed last time. I took a few photos,
chose another way to walk back
and after 15km and 4 hours, I reached the hostel. The rest of the day was eating, planning writing and even a “results”-workout, that showed me that “rest-day” has a deeper meaning, because it was harder than usual and I made some exercises a bit easier.
