Miss Saigon

We now find ourselves in the south of Vietnam, and its largest city, Ho Chi Mihn City, or more romantically known as Saigon.

The city is larger, more spread out and much more cosmopolitan than Hanoi in the north, and we have also returned to hot humid weather.

We went out to the Cu Chi tunnel complex this morning, and heard about the war from the Vietnamese side. Basically, their film was telling us Vietnamese people were all out on picnics when the Americans started dropping bombs on them (I am not kidding).

They then go on to tell and show you how they killed the Americans in the most grusome ways, demonstrating all their lovely booby-traps made of pointy bamboo sticks. They put sewage on the tips of the bamboo, so that if the Americans survived the booby traps, they would die of the most horrible of infections.



























Truly a lovely way to spend the morning. If that weren't enough, at the end of the tour, you could fire a real AK-47. I cannot wait for the Killing Fields in Cambodia, now.

Seriously, still having an amazing time.