The Cu Chi Tunnels

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Up early and off to the Cu Chi Tunnels.  The two hour bus ride takes us through a factory employed by people disabled by the Vietnam War, either directly or by birth defects.  Seems if you are disabled, you are forced to work in what look like very undesirable conditions.  Then off to the tunnels.  This tour was fantastic.  Luke and I shoot ten bullets out of  M1 American rifle (unfortunately the AK 47’s were not available), we walked down 100 meters of the 250 km of tunnels in the area.  They also demo’ed the horrible booby traps that the Viet Con had devised.  Everything for a slow painful death.  The tunnels we went down are quite a bit bigger that the originals.  The Vietnamese are a small people, and the Americans were described by our guide as slow due to their size from eating too much KFC and drinking beer, making slow like turtles.  The final video was interesting, as it was created from the Viet Con perspective, who had developed a hate for the American bullets and bombs.