Day 60 Cu Chi Tunnels

Today we took a tour to the Cu Chi tunnels it was super cheap €3 for the 2hour bus there & back with a guide and the entrance fee was the same. The trip there stopped at a shop where victims of agent orange were making hand crafts for sale.
The tunnels were great to see and our guide dropped the occasional joke, I think his favourite was regarding Americans, their hamburgers and the small tunnels designed not big enough for them. It was interesting to hear how clever they were with digging and designing them. They had multiple levels to escape if a level was invaded, wells for water because the rivers were poisoned, vent holes that looked like termite mounds and smoke plenum to hold smoke from cooking.
A couple of other interesting bits of the area were creators where bombs had fallen, examples of many of the traps the Vietnamese used and the forest covering the site of these preserved tunnels is young forest because the original forest was destroyed.

Back in Ho Chi Minh city Rachel & I got Nam haircuts, Rachels a little less of a dramatic change than mine. Great to have short hair in the heat though and in the mid to late 30's its fairly warm, the daily routine of layering up before going out has been replaced with sunscreen application.