Morning: Siam Ocean World - this is a really well put together aquarium and knocks the stuffing out of the Sea Life Centres. Mind you, it cost something like 30 million US dollars and it's not cheap to visit. A highlight is Happy Fish, Happy Feet where you put your feet (having had them washed by a very nice Thai lady) into a jacuzzi type tub and have tiny fish nibble at your toes. They basically love to remove dry skin and it's certainly an experience. It took Liam a while to be convinced to even try it. My feet felt fab afterwards, trying to work out if we can import some when we get to the UK! Cliff reckons they would need about two weeks of solid nibbling to sort his feet out. But he has beautiful feet ;) The low point was the bizarre 4D IMAX movie at the end, we reasonably assumed it would be marine-themed; perhaps with some scary sharks. But instead it was a story about a snowman trying to steal Christmas from Santa. It seemed a bit weird this far into January. Perhaps they just put the wrong one on.
In the evening we took the skytrain to Mo Chit, which is the other end of the line from where we're staying. There was meant to be a minibus there that takes you to the Impact Arena but it was nowhere to be seen. We spotted a obviously English guy in a Green Day tshirt and we ended up sharing a cab
with him and his friend Felice (who teaches here but is from the Wirral) out to the arena. It turned out that the arena is another 23km from where the skytrain ended, so it's a long way away. Felice was saying that they had tickets for Linkin Park here last year and because they didn't sell enough, they moved the gig from the 12,000 seater stadium to the car park! No such changes tonight, it clearly wasn't sold out (the seats anyhow), but there was certainly an atmosphere and the t-shirt stall completely sold out. Green Day haven't played here for 14 years. They were brilliant and Liam got a signed drumstick.
with him and his friend Felice (who teaches here but is from the Wirral) out to the arena. It turned out that the arena is another 23km from where the skytrain ended, so it's a long way away. Felice was saying that they had tickets for Linkin Park here last year and because they didn't sell enough, they moved the gig from the 12,000 seater stadium to the car park! No such changes tonight, it clearly wasn't sold out (the seats anyhow), but there was certainly an atmosphere and the t-shirt stall completely sold out. Green Day haven't played here for 14 years. They were brilliant and Liam got a signed drumstick.
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