Surprisingly enough, they were not celebrating in Vietnam. Weird.
The day started bright and early as we woke up in the heat of the rising sun. We got our stuff together and jumped back into our boats to head back to civilization.
After we boarded the bus, we headed back up north towards Saigon. On the road trip up, we stopped at the Cu Chi Tunnels. This is basically a living museum to the VietCong resistance during the war. We were able to see the structure of the vast tunnel network that the Viets had created during the war. It is amazing to think that they would live in these tunnels that I could barely fit my shoulders through.
As we went through the park, we were shown the extensive nature of the tunnels with their air holes, escape routs, booby traps, and room designs for every and any thing. We were shown demonstrations of the various booby traps that the Viets would use against the Americans, and we were even shown a pretty funny 1960’s Vietnam Propaganda film.
Being that we were in a military museum, we were taken to the shooting range to try out some American War era guns. Being that Jourdan and I have shot most of the guns offered (AK, M-16, M-1, SAW) we chose to try something new. We shot the automatic M-30. Even fixed on a stand, the gun had a really wicked kick back. It was a lot of fun though.
To end the Cu Chi experience, we were able to crawl through the
westernized Viet Tunnels. They are westernized because they needed to make them bigger for us fat westerners.
As an aside, Jourdan and I have realized that everything here is Asian sized. The showerheads come to about our shoulders, and the towels barely fit around us. They are quite a small people. We got back into Ho Chi Minh City, hung around for a bit, and then met the 12 final members that joined our group.
We all went out to a local cook your own BBQ place, and then hit Allez Boo for drinks.
Tomorrow we start touring with the full group of 32.
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