by partickular » Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:27 pm
I was in Vietnam in 2001 as part of a backpacking expedition, and went to visit the Cu Chi Tunnells. Really interesting. There were two open to visitors, the first being larger than the second. I, at 5'11" and a bit on the 'chunky' side, only just managed to fit down the first one, so I gave the second one a miss! I saw all the examples of traps the Viet Cong set and they were gruesome, whilst being low tech. Later, i went on a tour of the DMZ, on which we were shown a bombed out church with bullet holes all over the walls and such like. We were taken to see a lesser known tunnell network called the Vinh Moc tunnells, which were larger than the Cu Chi tunnells, and designed for villagers to live in rather than for the VietCong to fight from.
I saw Ho Chi Minh's enbalmed body in it's mausoleum in Hanoi too.
An extremely interesting country to travel in overall.
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