Hotel 211 Ho Chi Minh City

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... open and use the explosives inside, pretty risky stuff if you ask me! <br><br>All in all the tunnels were a fantastic experience and gave us a great insight into how life was during the war, also taught us a lot about the VC way of life during that time. <br><br>The next day we had a trip booked on the Mekong Delta, which we're going to write about in another entry because this one is too long already ha ha! <br><br>Lots of Love Carolyn and Thomas xxxx<br><br><br><br>

... qu'on est au Vietnam ? Parce que je m'attendais a trouver a peu pres les memes choses.<br><br>Et bien pas du tout. Le Vietnam a un avenir tellement grand qu'il est deja dans son present. Depuis que nous sommes arrives nous sommes litteralement bluffes par la folle activite qui regne ici. Les chantiers se succedent aux chantiers, des routes, des ponts, des ports, des immeubles, ce pays se construit. Comme un immense corps qui se mettrait a marcher. Et derriere tout ...

... as local Vietnamese people) hid during the war. The tunnels have now been widened (to fit Westerners) however they are still very, very narrow. Paul was only just able to squeeze down one of the holes (with arms in the air &amp; not by the side!) and was able to crawl through some of the tunnels. Spending only 20 minutes in this oppressive heat and claustrophobic conditions gave only the slightest notion of what it must have been like &#8211; spending months ...

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... replied, "There is no question of your transferring power. You cannot give up what you do not have." The palace itself has been preserved as a museum in almost exactly the same way as it was on that morning, making it a very interesting place to visit.<br><br>By this point, my eye was hurting too badly to continue sightseeing, so I headed back to the hotel where ...

... During breakfast at a nearby café, the skies opened. It was fun watching the mopeds going past with their drivers all wearing big rain macs. The heavy rain scuppered our plans for the day so we just explored the city a bit and booked our tickets for a Water Puppet show the next evening. Rich also backed up some of his photos onto DVD. We were having a coffee just off the central square near the Notre Dame cathedral when I noticed that the menu had &#8216;pork pie&#8217; on ...

... for the people.<br> <br>People here are hard workers. I mean, they know pretty well how to relax, but they are on a job, it's moving! Strong ddetermination to achieve a goal is often met here. And people here will help each other very much. The family still stands very strong as the basic unit. If not, friends will support each other. <br> <br>I wish that the country would allow more freedom of speech. Not to criticize the government, but so to permit new ideas to emerge ...

... ice cream and pancakes and it was goooood!<br><br>I spent most of the time in absolute fascination of the traffic. I've never seen anything like it and it is really difficult to explain. It is 95% mopeds and there are just so many! It is practically impossible to cross the street. I started off by shadowing locals as they crossed but soon got the hang of it. You pretty much just have to walk out into the traffic at a steady pace not starting and stopping ...

... br><br>In the evening I decided to take a walk and when I reached the city center it was very crowded. It was National Day (Quoc Khanh)which commemorates the proclamation in Hanoi of the Declaration of Indepence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by Ho Cho Minh on September 2nd 1945. Everybody was happy (except for some beggars) and were throwing silver pieces of paper.