Day 54 - Ketapang Borneo - Made to measure trousers and haircuts

Finally our day off has arrived. True to form and Sod's law I wake up at 7am like normal. I read some more of my book and try to get another hours sleep. By half nine my patience has gone and I get up for breakfast. The plan this morning is to head to the market to procure fruit and trousers.

Only half of us head out. We arrive to a street lined with tailors and hairdressers. An odd combination, but perfect for our intentions. We peruse a few material shops and some buy some, I find myself one that doubles as a tailor, pick my material and then get Lisa to try and ask to have some trousers made. I pay my 200000 rupia (about £12) and am told they will be ready tomorrow. 

After this I note Jaye goes to the hairdressers for a head shave. Mine is looking less than healthy and could really do with a trim. I decide to brave it with him. With the use of various gestures and the odd word in Indonesian I settle back to have it cut. It wasn't like Debbie at home cutting it with millimetre precision, she just kind of hacked at it, but by the end it looked fine. When I got up I realised how nervous I had been and I was covered in sweat. They offered to now wash it, bit backward but so glad I did. It lasted about half an hour and was so relaxing I nearly fell asleep. 

After this impromptu stop off we were running late for lunch so we all regrouped and headed to a small eat as much as you like vegetarian Chinese. The food was lovely and we had our iced jeruk, a local drink made from the jeruk fruit which is kind of like orange but sweet and obviously freezing cold which is amazing here. 

I popped to the cafe only to find that half of the teenagers in Ketapang had taken refuge there so no photos would upload, I decided to give up and try later around prayer time. Upon my return I went for an afternoon nap having finished book two. Kristi woke me to ask if I wanted to watch the second hunger games, seemed like a good idea, so we sat eating nuts and seeds for a few hours, while the film played.

I then popped back to the cafe and then got picked up by the rest of the group who had been on a walk. When I headed down I managed to fall over and face plant on the road, resulting in a small graze to my foot which bleed quite a bit. Having slept a lot today I was surprised to be ready for bed once dinner was over. My body clearly needed the recovery time.