Saigon, Underground
Tuesday, November 15, 2011Now some may refer
to the term "underground" as a wild boozy night out in Melbourne (Oh,
good times!) but in Saigon, I mean literally under the ground. Ari and I took a
half day guided tour to visit the Cu Chi tunnels, a region hosting much
bloodshed and conflict during the Vietnam war.
During the tour we
got to see how the people survived in tunnel systems spanning a distance of
250km underground. They cooked, ate, slept, went to school and essentially
continued their way of life beneath the surface.
Ari & Linda in the tunnel.
The tunnels were
cramped, dark and stale smelling...
As you can see, we
couldn't wait to resurface (Ari especially lol). Not entirely pleasant, pretty
creepy actually but good in giving us a firsthand experience of life
underground.
Above ground at Cu
Chi, we had the opportunity to fire some guns much to Ari's delight - an M60
machine gun and an AK-47. Cu Chi was also the place I got bitten by a
super mosquito, needless to say I basically bathed myself in Aeroguard for the
remainder of the trip :(
Ari firing an AK-47.
Linda with a crazy big mozzie bite!
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