I want money… that’s what I want

Yes. I just need to get some cash. ATMs are plentiful, but none wish to serve me, apparently.

Actually it seems a lot of them are already empty as people have withdrawn money for the holidays; banks will be closed for several days.

My new-found kangaroo-land buddies Julian and Holly said that TPBank doesn’t charge transaction fees (usually 4%) so I found the only one in town but it was empty. However, a couple on a moped said that VPBank also doesn’t charge fees, so a quick trot down the street and huzzah, I gots monies.

(Notwithstanding the fact that the machines always dispense high-value notes – 500K – that small businesses will choke on).

The Abandoned Water Park

Something of a different “tourist attraction”,
Hồ Thủy Tiên (Daffodil Lake) was opened in 2004 and closed in, uh, 2004.

It’s now a place where people like me come to gawp at the tumbledown structures and water slides. You can read the details on Wikipedia.

I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff so I spent a fun couple of hours poking around the dragon feature and walking around the lake.

Honestly, how nobody killed themselves here either while it was operating or since, I don’t know. The paving is a death trap, the steps inside are smooth concrete (and when operational, slick with water) and handrails few and far between (I assume there were some in the past). Fortunately the rough-hewn rock that the dragon sits amongst is, underneath, spray-painted polystyrene, that squeaky, beady stuff that gets absolutely everywhere and will never degrade.

Galleries

I got round to downloading pictures from my Canon camera (no thanks to the Canon Camera Connect app, which fails spectacularly at its primary function, Connecting to my Canon Camera). So now I uploaded some nice (but deeply overcast) pictures from the last few days.