This is our last in Ho Chi Minh City. Early morning we gathered at a Tourist agency as we'd booked a half-day trip to Cu Chi Tunnel. At 8.15 am we started the journey by bus. According to the tourist guide, the journey would take about 2 hours. In the journey I noticed 2 different situations - busy streets in Ho Chi Minh City and the green scenery approaching Cu Chi Tunnel. As I mentioned earlier, HCMC is crowded with motorcycles ... and another interesting sight is the cables, sometimes it's scary to see so many cables hanging across the road! It seems that they don't have the underground cables like in our country. As we approached Cu Chi Tunnel, we could see the rubber plantation and paddy fields. They are still using the buffalo...
To enter Cu Chi Tunnel we had to pay 80000 dong, that did not include transportation (another 110000 dong). There were a few identical huts and we were instructed to enter one of them. Here we were given explaination on how the tunnel worked ... it could save the Vietnamese and could trap the Americans at the same time!
To enter Cu Chi Tunnel we had to pay 80000 dong, that did not include transportation (another 110000 dong). There were a few identical huts and we were instructed to enter one of them. Here we were given explaination on how the tunnel worked ... it could save the Vietnamese and could trap the Americans at the same time!
After the video show, we were brought to see the tunnel, traps, meeting room, dining hall, trucks, bombs, rest area and etc. Here we could also experience walking through the tunnel ... however it is not real one. Although the tunnel height is 1 metre, we still had a difficulty walking in the dark and of course lack of oxygen... so we decided to get out at the first 20 metre exit. I wonder how those soldiers could survive in the much smaller tunnel! Besides that, my husband didn't want to miss a chance to shoot using the machine gun - he paid 50000 dong for a bullet.
Then we were given a tea break ... the same menu that the soldiers had many years ago - tea and boiled tapioca! It was nice, though...
After buying some souvenirs we headed back to HCMC. On the way, the bus dropped us where Aman picked us up and brought to his house. We had lunch there and then we had to say goodbye to all the family members ... it was quite hard for us, after spending 4 days there. Although it was a very short visit, it still gives us unforgettable memory .... especially to Aman, our faithful, patient and sometimes funny tourist guide - we gonna miss the time we spent together!
At 4.40 pm we flew back to Malaysia by MH759. Alhamdulillah, we safely landed on time.
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