Gooooodbyyyyeee VietNAAAM!

For our last day in Vietnam, we joined our tour buddies on a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels that were part of the famous Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War.

The Vietnamese are very much not focused on this part of their history. Rather, chieving happiness is their focus these days, but this is still obviously very important part of their past and they do a good job (with tourists at least) of talking about both sides of the conflict in a balanced way when it does come up.

Seeing the tunnels, the traps, the food the VC ate, and the general conditions in the jungles was really eye opening…as opposed to the adjacent National Rifle Range in the park when was ear splitting!
(For $380 you could belt out 100 rounds on an M60!!)

Very glad we went here before leaving Vietnam to round out our visit.

We’ve loved Vietnam (a lot of that thanks to our guide Kien - tour guide by day, fighting crime by night)Read more