I arrived about 10am in the morning rather jet lagged from the long trip. After a shower, I relaxed, spending 3 hours on the laptop drinking beers and watching dream team points tick over for the western bulldogs vs saints game. I was pretty surprised that the saints got up but I think the bulldogs lost it for themselves.
I then ventured out into the city to have a look around. To my surprise we must be in the industry central because there was shops upon shops of makita drills, angle grinders and small motors. I was rather surprised, all this shops, it sort of reminded of me of Thailand but it just kept going. Allot of the locals aren't very good at English but they seemed to know 3 words, Hello, Welcome and Thank you.
It was time to head back to the hotel before tea and I met a few people from the tour. We got recommended a couple of joints to eat, so we headed in the opposite direction to my earlier walk. This was more like I expected for the city, shoes, clothes, hand bags.
The restaurant had allot of standard western meals so I thought I would go out of my comfort zone and picked a local meal I hadn't heard of. Turned out to be a type of thick tomato soup with baked vegetables and meat inside. No idea on the type of meat or veges but I am still kicking and it wasn't to bad.
The night ended with a few lazy beers with about 12 people from both Contiki and Bus About tours. We all start tours on the same days so I am sure I will see a bit more of them by the end of it.
