mekong delta – Trums Travels

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!