We wandered into the main town and headed for the tourist information office to see if there was anything on whilst we are here. We found out there is a free bus which goes around the town and a free heritage walking tour at 9.30am tomorrow. We then walked around the Dutch area and along Jonker Street, which looked so different to last night's tourist filled night market. We looked in a gadget shop and found a little waterproof bluetooth speaker which we bought as this will be good for on the boat.
We then headed slightly out of town to a hill for sunset. On the way up we noticed lots of very old Chinese graves. The view of the sunset was slightly blocked by a very tall block of flats and there were lots of mosquitos so we made a quick decent via a monument to the people killed by the Japanese during the war.
After our big breakfast we didn't feel the need for lunch so had an early dinner at a hawker stall. We had the most enormous bowl of noodles with chicken, luckily we had only ordered one with a view to trying something else, but were so full we didn't need to!
As it got dark we walked along the river which was all lit up with coloured lights. We passed lots of little restaurants and at one there was a couple and it was the girl's birthday, we knew this because her boyfriend had decorated the table with balloons, candles, flowers and a picture of her, how romantic!
As we turned the corner we came across a street food market. We walked through the market looking at all the lovely food and heard some music playing. We took a seat to listen. The singer welcomed us and explained it was a charity event to raise money for children born with heart conditions.
As we sat and listen we decided to have a dessert after our huge bowl of noodles. We choose a shaved ice dessert called a cendol ABC (we are not sure why) but it was very tasty.
Once the music had finished we strolled back along the river, lit with neon lights to our accomodation.
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