Ho Chi Minh City

The first thing you notice about HCMC is the traffic - forget driving in Paris there is no way you would make me get behind a wheel in this city. There is a huge population here so everywhere is very busy. Motorcycles are not afraid to swerve around big buses who in return are not afraid to use their horn.Here I met my very small tour group - an American photographer/ I.T manager and an Australian nurse. Together with our private Viatmanese tour guide we have a very intenational group.The evidence of the French existence in the city still remains in the beautiful architecture. We saw a very beautiful Notre damm and the most elegant post office you have ever seen.Pagoda, hospital and motorbike and cyclos

Chu chu tunnels
Apparantly you could get to Cambodia in the very long and tight fitting tunnels. We didn't ahve our passports on us so had to make do with just 30 metres of widened tunnel for tourists. I think they may have realised we (all tourists) are slightly bigger then your average Vieatmanese. Still we had to croutch all the way through. We had one guide with one torch who sped through the tunnels with ease while we stumbled along behind in the semi darkness trying not to whack our heads. We did however manage to pause for photographs. The whole site is set up to show some of the harships of the "American war". We also spotted some of the traps which were originally made as tiger traps but happened to come of some use during the war.