Air b n b has no hot water, nice place but byetween the water and terrible wifi.....well. Out early with our guide to head to Tunnels of Cu Chi. Stopped around the corner for a Vietnamese coffee for the road. It was about 2 1.2 hours out to the tunnels, and we made one stop at a Handicaped Handicraft place to purchase some handcrafted souvenirs. Pretty fascinating lacquer work using eggshells and laminated rosewood. Pretty stuff.
On the way out to the tunnels, it was a chance to really escape the city, and its scooter over congestion and observe the countryside.
Our guide was a 20 year old kid named Oui, who was very outgoing and pleasant. He answered a lot of our questions, and would really like to go into IT in America (thats what the Vietnamese call the US). Mark K had some good advice to give.
The tunnels were widely visited by many tour groups. Our first stop was a movie which had to be a propaganda movie from the War. It used the terms “kill Americans” so many times, it almost became comical. Interestingly, when asked, Oui said there was no animosity towards Americans.
That propaganda film had to be the most heavily biased media we have seen here against Americans. along with the War Remnants museum, and Hanoi Hilton. I do not have the greatest tolerance for that however.
We saw the tiny circumference tunnels that the VC lived in, and were amazed. in all there was 125 miles of tunnels at the wars height, and thousands of VC living in and around Cu Chi.
Went to the Great Temple of Cau Dai, the combination religion from the 1930s and beyond.
Saw some rubber tree groves with the slashes in the trees and
falling asleep.......zzzzz
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