We did a day trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels. That place was something else, the history there we could see and actually go into, one of the tunnels and see how inventive they were during the war. Above is a spot where a bomb from a B52 hit and made a crater. We had a special tour guide for this area and she was terrific. She showed us tunnels and how they were camoufloged and she showed us they made sandals out of old tires and made them “backwards” so if you were following tracks, they would be going the opposite way of where the people were going. We were allowed to go into one of the tunnels but you had basically go down on your hands and knees and crawl for, well I forget how many metres, but I chose to not do that. Maybe I should have.. Nope I chose correctly lol
Signage showing part of the tunnel system 
Part of the trail we walked 
How the tunnels would have looked, you would never know they were there 
Looking down into a tunnel 
Our tour guide, Aorr, getting inside one of the tunnels 
Our tour guide just for the tunnel tour, I can’t remember her name. She is holding sandals that are made from old tires that they all wore. And she showed us that they would make them backwards so if you were following tracks, it would take you opposite of where they were actually walking. Very clever. 
Huge Ant hill
We also took a 2 hour bus ride to go to a dock to get on a boat to go to Unicorn Island, set in the Mekong Delta. It was a fun day on the island, we went to a bee farm, bee place? whatever it may be called, they had different products for sale and we tried tea with honey. They were selling bee pollen, honey cream for your face, ginger and dried bananas. There was a river on the island and we took a rowboat down a river, a wobbly boat I might add.
Heading to the Island ! 
Our tuk tuks taking us around the island. I was on a different tuk tuk than Clint as you can see ! 
The lady who told us about the honey and products. 
I love purple, my favourite colour and they had carriages and horses all done up in purple 
Snakes in a drink and they wanted us to drink it….. Nope 
Not drinking snake liquor 
Making candy 
The river we went on in our little wobbly rowboats 
They put on entertainment for us at the end of the day and included some of our tour group to participate
Here are some random shots I took of our time in Ho Chi Minh City. Interesting fact: did you know there are well over 7 million motorcycles in Ho Chi Minh City? Hanoi has over 8 million, that’s a lot of bikes!
Our Hotel 
So many motorcycles 
I like doing street photography 
Side street 
Opera House
That was our time in Ho Chi Minh City, next post we are off to Cambodia to the city of Phnom Penh.
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Such wonderful views, wow! These folks never wear shoes, always flip flops or sandals, what’s the difference. I would drink snake liquor either! 💀😂
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It was a really interesting trip. Yes flip flops were very popular, I could not wear them all day. The snake liquor was a big turn off lol
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A very different culture…
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The Chu Chi Tunnels were interesting and that’s good you got to see how it looked without actually crawling inside of them … that would be good enough for me too. It would be good enough for me to look at the snake in the drink and not sample it too. Where is my sense of spirit – ah well, bravery only goes so far, but you were braver than me on the wobbly riverboat “cruise” … as a person who can’t swim, that would have been a hard pass for me and I’d have needed to stay and eat/drink honey instead while everyone was on that adventure. Also interesting about the tire-tread sandals – very innovative! That’s amazing how many motorcycles there are – there must be tons of accidents given how any people were on the street on motorcycles in that photo alone! At least you’d feel safer in a tuk tuk!
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Yes I can’t swim either and the water didn’t look very nice but I thought there was enough people around to save me if I fell in lol. We never saw even one accident the whole time we were there, it was pretty amazing. People just seem to know when to turn or to stop. When pedestrians wanted to cross the road, they just put their arm out and walked and everyone went around them.
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Well you are brave Susan since you don’t know how to swim! I just assumed you did as you go out in the canoe (and I think kayak as well.) The canoe I know for sure. Yes, this is true, someone would save you. I wonder if there were any sea creatures in the water … water snakes and the like? That’s amazing that everything works so well traffic wise – I guess they are used to it, lots of congestion but probably not as much pollution with the motorbikes as with automobiles though.
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I have tried kayaking but didn’t care for it. I like our canoe 😊 I always wear a life jacket in our canoe, not taking any chances! We always see couples in their canoe not wearing life jackets but if they have a dog, the dog always has a life jacket on. We used to have a small poodle, she passed away years ago, but she loved canoeing and camping. She always wore a life jacket and she had her own little camping chair to sit on by the campfire. She was a tad spoiled lol. I’m not sure if they had water snakes or the like but I didn’t want to find out😁 I have been in water where we live and there has been snakes but they are harmless. I just splash water at them to keep them away🤗
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Your poodle sounds cute and yes spoiled, but that’s okay too. We have to spoil our pets. We have a lot of drownings in Michigan, not so much in boats, but by swimming, especially when even strong swimmers get caught in a riptide. I’d freak out seeing the harmless snakes in the water – yikes!
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I can’t imagine crawling in the tunnels, you made a good choice. Lol Very clever how they made the sandals! Do they eat the snake too? You sure were brave getting into that shaky rowboat. What a beautiful picture on the river, were the boats all tourists?
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