Chu chi tunnels

Day 2 in Saigon was the Chu chi tunnels.

Kind of like this...

These are the tunnels the vietnamese dug during the Vietnam war (200km of them - by hand!). It was cool. We went through the original tunnels, got attacked in the face by bats , ate tapioca (like sweet potato and it's what they lived on during the war) and drank jasmine tea - yum!

The tunnels are only about 30 by 28cm entrances and the actual tunnels are tiny!

We also saw destroyed tanks etc, samples of their bamboo traps (heaps of them and they're all deadly and evil as hell) and samples of the bunkers etc where they lived, cooked and so on. I also got a 'sample' bomb fragment which i can add to my growing collection of random souvenirs.

Then we spent the night at a beer bar (we had asked to go somewhere to eat and this is where we were taken). When we arrived, some locals invited us to join their table and we ate and drank with them while watching soccer. It was awesome! One of them was a Vietnam vet too with bullet wounds and some crazy stories.

So we ate and drank too much and then cruised home...

On the way back however we made some detours. First we visited an old truck on the side of the road which we climbed into and which made us real dirty all over. Next was the electronic store where we danced in the middle of the shop and were displayed on every T.V in the four story complex and out on the road! All the staff stopped to watch. And we were all dirty )o:

Then food shops were hit before ending the night sitting in a gutter saying hi to everyone who walked past and talking with the locals sitting at the table behind us and the little children selling stuff.

Good day all up