After a long bumpy tuk tuk ride in the pouring rain to the Cambodian border, we arrived into Vietnam and immediately got screwed over by a dodgy scam!! Go Vietnam!!! The scam involved lies about buses to Ho Chi Minh City from a guy with scraggly long whiskers..... speed racing on the back of scooters in monsoon downpours to catch up with the 'only bus to HCMC', insanely inflated prices..... arguments amongst rice paddy fields and Joel heroically hailing down a passing van to get us out of there!! A great entry, but not as bad as others we've heard since!!
Checked out Ho Chi Minh City for a few days, quite a cool city. Visited the war museum that's was both a little biased and also completely disturbing. You realise instantly how screwed up the whole place is because of the war. Visited the Cu Chi tunnels which was an underground network to escape from the Americans. Watched a propaganda film from the 70's that included lines such as ' She was awarded a medal for being an American killing hero' that was a little hard to take seriously....
Checked out Ho Chi Minh City for a few days, quite a cool city. Visited the war museum that's was both a little biased and also completely disturbing. You realise instantly how screwed up the whole place is because of the war. Visited the Cu Chi tunnels which was an underground network to escape from the Americans. Watched a propaganda film from the 70's that included lines such as ' She was awarded a medal for being an American killing hero' that was a little hard to take seriously....
Sam in a Cu Chi tunnel.
Jarrod squeezing into one of the entrances into the tunnels. Completely camouflaged once your in and its covered over.
An American fighter jet at the war Museum.
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