I got 21 seconds to go, I’ve got 21
seconds to go… ok 21 days until home but still. The main thing to see and do in
and around the city is the Cu Chi tunnels, these are tunnels that the
Vietnamese created and lived in to hide and protect themselves when the war was
on. The tunnels were about an hour or so away from the city, so we decided to
go for the half day tour, which picked us up at 8am.
The tunnels were really interesting and
learnt a lot. A few of the facts I learnt was that the sandals they wore were
bigger at the front than at the back to fool the American troops into thinking
they were going the other way. So the footprints that got left in the ground
were the opposite way to where they were going, quite clever if you ask me!
Another is they used to cook all the food for the day early in the morning and
the smoke used to come out of a tube at least 1km away from the kitchen to
mislead the troops too. The reason they did it early in the morning was so it
could be covered up and to make it look like fog. We also had the chance to try
some Tapioca, it just tasted a bit like potato, it was very bland.
We got to walk around or more crouch
our way through some of the tunnels, which they have made slightly bigger for
tourists. Vietnamese people are so small compared to the average westerner.
We were shown many of the traps they
used against the American troops, there were at least 10 different ways of
catching them and a lot of the time it was just to injure them but not kill
them so they could go back and find them, so kind of like winning a prize.
We got back to Ho Chi Minh City around
3pm and had a little chill for the afternoon as it was very hot out at the
tunnels. We then met two girls who we’ve known since Halong Bay for dinner, which
was lovely and discovered they’re going to Cambodia tomorrow too so I’m sure we
will bump into them again.
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