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Travel Blogs from Cu Chi, Vietnam, Vietnam
Cu Chi Tunels - a peek in the past
This is a top pick! Cu Chi Tunels were home to 6,000 Viet Cong fighters at one point. 30% we women. It was definitely an interesting trip ...and no, I didn't take up the opportunity to shoot with ...
Keep yourself protected!!!
This is a top pick! KEEP YOURSELF PROTECTED The morning we left Saigon, we had breakfast with Allison and Laura. Apparently shocking and scary events took place with Laura on her way home the previous night. Allison and Laura are roommates but they came home separately our ...
War Remnants Museum
This is a top pick! ... the only image that would not leave my mind. I mentioned it in an earlier blog. I had read books on Vietnam, seen gorgeous travel photos, I knew some of its ancient history, but that Pulitzer Prize winning image would always resurface. ...
The Cu Chi Tunnels
This is a top pick! ... decades after the war, it's still a little gung ho for my tastes. Keep in mind that I don't support U.S. invasion of Vietnam. But I also didn't enjoy the black-and-white film they show at the beginning of the tour that congratulates the Cu ...
Rambo Part IV
This is a top pick! ... to the tunnels asking every conceivable question about Vietnam, so at least I know now what the number 1 export of Vietnam is. So anyway, the Cu Chi Tunnels are much smaller than the Vinh Moc Tunnels up near Hue (see previous entry here) even after ...
Saigon Or Ho Chi Minh City ?
This is a top pick! ... Norris movies. We lunched at the Rex hotel which is famous for have being the meeting point for all the war correspondents during the Vietnam war. Otherwise that's about all for Saigon. Next Pod - Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam. Love, Nath and ...
VIETNAM
This is a top pick! ... and bugs keep dropping off the ceiling and in to the food (yum!). So, we head off to Saigon, the largest city in Vietnam. At Saigon we visit a table top BBQ restaurant where you cook your own food. By now we are quite used to seeing strange things on ...
Location Summary - Vietnam
This is a top pick! LOCATION SUMMARY - Vietnam Location: Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Hue, Hoi An, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta Duration: 17 days Sights 5 People 3 (only this high thanks to people of ...
War remnants and another meeting with the Mekong
This is a top pick! ... the city. At about 2.30pm, our cyclo drivers dropped us at the War Remnants Museum, where the atrocities of the Vietnam War are graphically documented through hundreds of photographs, plus deformed foetuses in jars and replicas of internment cells. ...
Musical Chairs
This is a top pick! ... I do for you guys! The bus was one of the more comfortable one I've so far had the pleasure of travelling on in Vietnam although for some reason the conductor was insistent everyone sits as far forward as possible. What this meant was that every time ...
Walkabout
This is a top pick! ... eatery but it's always good to challenge your immune system, as long as it doesn't lose! Saw, or at least heard, another of Vietnam's peculiar traits in the form of a lorry with a "Santa Claus is coming to town" reversing jingle to add to the "So here ...
The city of peds
This is a top pick! ... enlightened, he then showed us he's war wounds, from helicopter shots, when he was fighting for the viet kong. anyway vietnam, now encourages personal business since the 80's and it's economy is growing. damm currency conversion. even though you can ...
Why North Vietnam won the war - Cu Chi Tunnels
This is a top pick! ... was that the ingenious response to the barbaric and unjust war brought on by the foreign invaders had allowed the North Vietnam forces to showcase their superiority and resolve in their glorious struggle. Young female soldiers fed young male soldiers in ...
War Museum and Floating Markets
This is a top pick! I added to my to my sombre mood in Saigon, when I visited the War Remnants Museum, which is the politically correct name for what the Vietnamese used to call the Museum of American & Chinese War Crimes. The museum is a fairly one sided look at the war, ...
An Irishman, two Poms, and a Kiwi
This is a top pick! ... write the history, and the Vietnamese pull no punches with their descriptions of the American atrocities during the Vietnam War. Graphic photos of napalm bombings, senseless massacres, environmental destruction, and worldwide opposition assail you on ...
So this is communism?
This is a top pick! ... hammer-and-sickle flag on that lamppost? First let's erase all those cold-war stereotypes from your head. Here in Ho Chi Minh City (the pre-war name was Saigon), there are no squat concrete buildings, boiled potatoes and elderly babushka-wearing ...
Cu Chi kicks ass and feeling at home in Saigon
This is a top pick! ... and an avid globe-trotter. She's been all over Asia and says India has her heart. She also taught English in Korea. After visiting Vietnam for a couple weeks she picked up and moved here to teach English (found a job in two weeks of deciding to move ...
What's this place really called?!?
This is a top pick! ... hinted, the travelogue has been pitifully empty for many weeks now. Sorry, but I've been having a great time travelling up through Vietnam for over a month now and I've sort of been avoiding internet cafes. Mostly because I've just been spending my time ...
Going Underground, Going Underground
This is a top pick! ... these booby traps that were around us I thought I might have to take my top off to be safe! However, I am not sure that Vietnam is ready to witnessed the stunning physique that was hidden beneath. I also don't think there was enough room in the tunnels ...
One day tour - Cao Dai Temple and Cu Chi tunnels
This is a top pick! ... -- or worse, first hand memories of untold horrors. To paraphrase Nelson DeMille in his novel Up Country, for modern Americans Vietnam is a war-- not a country. Unless people come to see the modern Vietnam first hand, this country will occupy that ...
The Cu Chi Crawl..
This is a top pick! ... an interesting day trip from Saigon. I just hope for your sake that another tourist freaks out while you're down there, it certainly made mine and a couple of Irish men's day! Next Pod - Moc Bai (Cambodian Border), Vietnam. Love, Nath and ...
Ho Chi Minh City otherwise known as Saigon
This is a top pick! ... a bus to the border and all going well we shall cross into Cambodia and be in Phnom Penh by tommorow evening. Vietnam has been amazing, such a diverse country, we have visited ancient temples, swam in the clear seas, sailed amongst limestone karsts, ...
Tunnels built by the VC!
This is a top pick! We went and visited the Cu Chi tunnels which for me was totally amazing how these farmers built these underground tunnels to fight the Americans at night. They had made a tunnel just for tourists since most are much bigger than the average ...
Back to School
This is a top pick! ... like a pretty good way to have a practice run before reaching and teaching in Thailand. With having to cut short my time in Vietnam to be in Thailand on time this was suddenly my last day full day in the country as I worked out the cheapest, quickest ...
Washed out
This is a top pick! After a few days being beach bums and dodging the daily monsoon rains, we packed our things and headed off South again to Vietnams southern capital city - Saigon. The bus trip was another fairly long journey and we arrived late at our final destination, ...
Mixed emotions
This is a top pick! ... . I did a one day tour of a Caodai temple (a religion that is a combination of several religions) and the Cu Chi Tunnels (used by the guerillas during the Vietnam war). I also did a two day tour of the Mekong Delta. It was a fantastic trip consisting of ...
Sad times
This is a top pick! Today we visited the Vietnam War museum to learn more about this countries history and the mistakes and terrible killing that occurred less than 30 years ago! The remainder of our day was spent organizing our onward trip by boat, which places we would ...
Capital of the South
This is a top pick! ... The highlight of this trip was the visit to the Cu Chi Tunnels where for Tilly Claustrophobia took on a whole new meaning! The Cu Chi Tunnels were built during the Vietnamese war and were designed as a base-camp come accommodation and living space for the ...