Day 12: Cu chi tunnels

We had a decent breakky before the tunnels today - Oj, scrambled eggs and kinda milky toast.
We found our bus and hopped on - another tiny bus for a 2 hour trip to Cu Chi. We stopped at a handicap painting place again, a different one but with all if the same artwork. Same same.

We got there and watched a short dvd about the tunnels, in poor english, so I didnt really know what was going on. It was also in black and white and was fuzzy… (for effect?)

After that we walked around to a few of the tunnel sites. We saw the original sized hidden entrances to the tunnels, covered in leaves, and had a go at fitting in them (I just fit through…!) We saw the booby traps they set and the air holes they made to look like ants nests.

Then we shot a gun. Crouton and I did 5 shots each from an AK-47! Pretty crazy, but something too tick off a bucket list. It was so loud and pushed back into our shoulder pretty strongly.

Now was the really fun part… We got to go IN THE TUNNELS. The original sized ones were like 80cm by 60cm but these ones were for the tourists so they were 120 by 80cm. It was still pretty dark and scary down there though! I came out at the 30m mark for a break but then I went back in and finished it all. I was soo sweaty afterwards - how did some of these people live down there for 8 years!?

We also saw one of the kitchens and dining rooms they used during the war that were partially underground.

That was pretty much it for the tunnels! We got dropped back in Saigon at the War remnants museum and were shocked after learning a bit more about the war.

1. United States - mind your own business! Why would you start this war and commit genocide just because Vietnam wants to be a communist country!?! Let them work it out and stop killing innocent people.

2. Makers of Agent Orange - idiots!!! Why would you supply America with this chemical that has ruined so mny lives, even to this day?

It was a pretty sad museum, we found ourselves almost in tears a few times but we learnt a lot.

After that we went to the markets and I bought a Jimmy Choo bag for about $25. It feels like really good quality too haha so I think I did well.

Then we ate Pho at thr same place as Bill Clinton did (woo hoo). The Pho Chay we had wasnt very good… I didnt eat much of it haha. I have only ever had pho once before in Canada and it was awesome soo maybe because we got veggie pho.

Then we pretty much just went and got organised with our bags and waited for our sleeper bus!