Cu Chi Tunnels

We eventually arrived at the Cu Chi tunnels and very gratefully got off the coach, one of our fellow tourists was a rather chatty American who we secretly named "Indi-ana Jones"! Details of his many exploits included fighting off an angry baracuda with just his bare feet, and saving a girl from certain shark attack whilst her useless husband looked on. So we found it rather amusing when this rather portly little fellow panicked when we arrived at Cu Chi. "We're in the jungle! Oh my god nobody said anything about the jungle! I've got a bad leg!" Hmm distinct lack of the Indi-ana style sense of adventure we'd all come to know so well on the coach!
We were all ushered on to the path through the jungle and started the tour by watching a DVD. This was about the brave Cu Chi guerillas who fought in trenches using hand made weapons and pretty mean looking traps to "kiw many amerwican Sowdiers", these people were awarded medals for "killing many american enemies". Next stop was to see the actuall tunnels themselves, which corinne bravely entered and I bravely held her bag for her! They were absolutely tiny and so dark, it is hard to imagine how these people coped. We also got to see original trenches and bomb craters. There was a chance to fire an MK-47 which us peace lovers declined and then we had tapioca (yuk) and green tea.
Then it was into the coach and homeward bound, where Indie regaled us with more outstandling tales of courage and how brilliant america is, oh and how big his boat was!

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam