Before we went through security we changed to more local weather dress. Security was a bit chaotic, but did not take to long. After about 20 minutes we had a stamp in our passports and we where ready to find the train to the city.
When we found the train station it was a bit of a search on how to pay the fair with a card. But in the end it turned out you just have to find the gate where a person was standing who would check if a payment terminal said ‘beep’.
The boarding goes Japanese style organized. Everybody was standing in line. They waited for everybody to get of the train, then waited for some stewards with whistles to check if everybody was off-boarded and then with some hand signs and whistling people where urged to board the train.
Half an hour later we arrive at the end point of the train, we got off and where greeted with a blanked of warm air. We decided to walk to what seemed to be a park on the map to see what we would do. This was a bit of a disillusion, as park was being reconstructed. On the other side of the street was also a big green area, but when we say barriers and a lot of police is was clear we could not enter there. It turned out to be the residence of the royal family.
A police officer told us we could not enter. We asked if we could use some chairs in the shade to find out where we could go next. That was no problem and a minute later another police officer came from inside with two bottles of cold water. Very thoughtful and appreciated.
We walked around looking for some smaller streets and ended up in a coffee place with air-conditioning to relax a bit. There we figured it might be nice to get a massage, I checked the map and there where plenty of places around. I went to check if they would accept card payments. The first one didn’t, the second one did, and the next 4 did not, so I returned to pick up Mo to go to the second one, when I saw another place next to it, which even had signs on the door about accepting card payments, and since the place looked nicer, we went there. We opted for a 5 in 1 massage; feet, neck, shoulders, head and hands.
After washing my feet, where the lady was impressed by the amount of dirt that came from my feet after 12000 steps around town, I was put in a very comfortable chair and she started massaging my feet. Even though it was pretty hurtful at the start I dosed off for a good 20 minutes. Mo, who was sitting in the chair next to me told I even snored a bit.
After an hour we felt amazing and energized we went to look for an restaurant to eat something before we would go back to the airport.
The food on the menu with pictures all looked wonderful and since it was not very clear how big the portions where, we ended up ordering a lot of thing as we where pretty hungry.
I was an amazing meal and we managed to finish almost everything including the very spicy soup the waiter had warned us about.
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