Vietnam Things to Do Tips by Maximilian21

Being greatly interested in The vietnam war this was a "must do" thing on my intenerary.
I was greatly immpressed.
200 km of tunnels is situated about 1 and a half hours drive from Saigon. It was a place of fierce resistance against the Americans in a place called Chu Chi near Cholon.
There you get to walk into the tunnels, which are unbelieavable tight at times as well as seeing how the vietcong lived and fought during the war.
If your American prepare not to come away to joyfull. The museum and the subsequant videos shown are not to light on their disdain for the americans and thier "imperialistic war"

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When you see some of these tunnels you can possibly impagine how humans could have fit through some of them. there is an opportunity to crawl through some of them and i must admit that i was a little scared. These things where a tight squeeze and you once you go in you cant turn around.

You crawl for a few hundred meters in the dark and its very hot and claustraphobic.
After coming out completly drenched with sweat and exhaustion i wondered how the hell they did it for 20 years

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Looking at some of these booby traps you can help but wonder at the ingenuity of the vietcong and shake your head at the barbarity.
A vast array of contraptions devised by the rebels can be seen near Chu Chi tunnels.

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After seeing and hearing about the barbarity and absurdity of war your then invited to fire some of the weapon the Vietcong used during the war.
I though why not, picked up an AK paid a few dollars for some bullets and went to the firing range and shot away to my hearts content.

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Cao Dai is a religion which originated in Vietnam. The religion is based on mysticism and is almost a melange of different faiths such as Buddhism, christianity and Confusionism and taoism.
It is a very colourful religion and it is intersting to the the various ritual with take place in one of its services.
for a short expalnation of the religion see the following link

mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/Caodai.htm

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This is the Main temple in the faith and is situated about an hours drive from Saigon. It is a popular day trip.

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Is filled with rituals and is ascetically beautiful

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There are many munitions dumps left over from the war, particualrly around chu chi. these dumbs have unexploded b52 bombs, mines, mortars etc

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Most people still call it Saigon.
Its a very cool city, with a population of close to 10 million people. It is very chaotic and virtually never sleeps.
When i was there is stayed mosly around the backpackers hub but i did manage to venture off into the city quite a bit.
Because of the population one can feel that the place is slightly overcrowded, there are motorcycles everywhere and crossing a road can sometimes like suicide.

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like in Laos they seem to have random animals and tourist places. At the chu chi tunnels they have a giant python there for some reason.

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