Today was a much nicer day than yesterday, despite a slight hiccough in the morning, with one of the girls in my room finding a bed bug in her bed!!
The hostel was really great about it though and has fumigated the whole room, and offered for us to move rooms or something, but I think it was just a one off. Hopefully.
After that, I started off with a morning walk back to the Royal Palace, which luckily was open today!
Annoyingly, despite it being International Women's Day, I still had to buy a tacky t-shirt to cover up because my scarf was unsatisfactory. There were also a LOT of tourists, including one particularly arrogant tourist who insisted that they provide him with seeds from one of the trees, despite it not being in season. Nothing as bad as the girls taking selfies with bones yesterday though.
The buildings inside were beautiful though, and the gardens were like a tropical paradise, with pots of lilies and perfect hedges. Inside, it is not only the Royal Palace, but the neighbouring Silver Pagoda, so it ended up being a couple of hours.
There were also a few exhibitions with various things on display, such as a woman weaving on a century old loom, and a room filled with gold and silver elephant statues, gifted to the royal family from various people seeking their graces.
Tomorrow, temples and shopping! xx