You can carry anything on a moped!
This stand of dried fish produced the worst smell on earth & I almost shelled out some greenbacks to get rid of this woman and her cart of stench.
Traffic photos - just close your eyes and walk forward.
War Remnants Museum
A whole lotta choppers
Cu Chi tunnels
Bryce gets far more excited on the topic of war then myself so I'll let his words describe the experience.
"In the Cu Chi province, the underground was crisscrossed with an intricate and elaborate web of tunnels to aid Viet Cong fighters wage their guerrilla warfare against U.S. and ARVN forces. The tunnel complex itself spans an impressive 75 miles in distance and includes multiple "levels." About 100m of these tunnels were renovated and widened for tourists to crawl through, though they were still absolutely cramped. Despite the renovation, the 100m crawl was enough to stimulate for me how horrid the conditions were in reality.
The Cu Chi tunnels also included an exhibit on the booby traps that the Vietnamese devised to maim and kill U.S. soldiers. These were the most wicked looking traps that I have ever seen. All of them were cleverly concealed in the foliage or ground and featured razor sharp bamboo or steel spikes that would impale the torso or appendage of an unlucky GI. I definitely looked twice at each step that I took after that.
What impressed me was the ingenuity and tenacity of the Vietnamese people during this struggle. For instance, the steel that they used to construct those gruesome booby traps were recycled from the shrapnel of U.S. bombs. Unexploded ordinance was dismantled and used to manufacture grenades and other homemade explosive devices. The Vietnamese used whatever they could to fight against the Americans, including the remains of weapons used against them."
Even though the tunnels were widened for tourists - I had to slide on my stomach in a lot of places.
Bryce and Maya
Various painful booby traps
Where's the tunnel?
Ah!
American cannot fit into the entrance
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