Woke up bright and early this morning but took it fairly easily. Free wifi everywhere which is a bonus, and downloading and backing up photos is always a good idea for me. Grabbed breakfast and headed off about 9am for what I intended to be a very relaxed day, bit of shopping, chilling and watching the local funeral celebrations for a member of the royal family (more on that shortly). A lot of the shops I think though didn't open until a bit later than I expected, so I window shopped, strolled and took lots of photos of streets. Huge amount of people (and hawkers) around the palace, selling sarongs and bottles of water. Also visited the market and had a browse, although didn't buy anything. Apparently it is the same market where Eat, Prey, Love
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