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Drafted In Nam ( Part VI )  

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One of the main entrances. It was decorated with ALOT of booby traps like grenades and mines. My guide's actual words " They set alot of traps for the Americans. Do we have any Americans here? You, sir? Ok, please be careful " LOL
Another entrance, you have to crawl to go in.

Vietnamese chick. They always have 10 people in one group, and each group will have only one female. Guess what's the purpose of the female in the war zone? Yup, you guessed it right......




 To do the cooking laaa..sheesh



This termite mound is connected to the tunnels, the VCs used them as their air ventilation. If you look closely, you'll see lots of holes around the mound. Efforts at gassing and drowning them proved to be ineffective.
An army tank, after being hit by a mine.
I needed to camwhore somehow right
My bro, looking out for Viet Congs

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Drafted In Nam ( Part V )  

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Alright, next stop. The Cu Chi tunnels! Now for tourism purposes, they have enlarged the tunnels to twice its original size. Now even the westerners can experience the life beneath the ground. Our guide was hilarious. It was clear that he still has some small..err.. 'misunderstanding' against the Americans. He kept spouting words like 'ruthless American', 'American murderers', and my personal favorite 'the devil Americans' LOL. He said all this with a weird smile. Funny guy la.


Can you spot the entrance to the tunnels???

Look closer now...closer! Squint dammit!

There ya go. Thats one of their secret entrances. Pretty cool eh.

Let me show you how to get in. First get your legs in nice and deep. Ignore the insects on your shoes please. Lift your hands above your head else it'll be harder to get in.


Slowly inch yourself in and cover the top.

Thats me properly hidden, just like the Viet Congs. Hehe, and thats my brother's stupid foot.
It was dark down there, with barely enough space to move. You have to crawl on your knees to get around down there.

One of the booby traps the VCs set in the jungle. They made it obvious for the tourists of course.

The spikes underneath


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Drafted In Nam ( Part IV )  

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More artsy-fartsy stuff...

This is my favourite

Nice 'carvings' eh? =D


They use bull's horn for this

Frog!





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Drafted In Nam ( Part III )  

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Some of the artsy-fartsy stuff for the artsy-fartsy people ( Esther's line =p )











The front side...

The backside...

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Drafted In Nam ( Part II )  

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For the first day, we visited the Cu Chi (pronounced as Ku Chi) tunnels. Ah yes, this tunnels were built way before the Americans’ attempt to invade Nam. The Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communist) made separate small underground rooms to avoid the French’s air attacks. These rooms eventually connected and became a network of tunnels that could reach up to 200 kilometers. Then the Americans came, with their technologically advanced (at that time la) weapons and well trained soldiers. The VCs would’ve lost the war if they had fought with them directly but by hiding in the tunnels, the VCs controlled the time and place for combat, thus ensuring their victory against the Americans.

From Ho Chi Minh to Cu Chi is damn far and according to the Lonely Planet, the best way to enjoy Cu Chi tunnels is by joining the group tour there. And thats exactly what we did. Our bus left at about 9 in the morning and i managed to get some snapshots from the bus. Heh, i was being the typical tourist, i know =D There's no shame in that!




Our huge bus actually went through this tight alley. You just gotta love the drivers in Nam.




Bently limo's the grand prize for some football competition.



The cops



Before we reached Cu Chi, the bus stopped us at a factory called The Handicap Handicraft factory. They have handicapped people helping out with the carvings and the paintings.



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Drafted In Nam ( Part I )  

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IM BACK!

Sorry for the delay of the Viet Nam post, I was vomiting my guts out during the weekend. Now, that was a fine spectacle, imagine this. I was in the living room, watching some morning cartoons, minding my own business when suddenly, my breakfast decided they want out. I started getting that BLERGHHH feeling. The minute I moved my posterior from the sofa, I started chugging out the glorious bits and pieces of breakfast. It was a sight to behold. I ran/vomit/laugh a little bit all the way to the toilet from the living room. By the time I was facing the toilet bowl, I ran out of vomit. I couldn’t help laughing again when I saw the trail of vomit/breakfast from the living room to the toilet. I wish I could record all that, it was hilarious! Haha. It was definitely a CANON moment.

Anyway, back to Nam. This post will be more on pictures, as you know a picture’s worth a thousand words. Now try 700 pictures, that’s like a gazillion words there. Hehe. Too bad blogspot got a limit of MBS to post so i can only upload a limited amount of pictures per post. Sheesh.

Our ETA was at 1900, met up with this awkward and lanky Vietnamese guy. At eaaase sol’ jah! It was difficult communicating with him because he only knows simple English words like taxi, one dorrar (dollar), two dorrar, three dorrar, the works. So I had to use exaggerated hand gestures to get to him. Heh, s’all good. Our taxi was a freakin’ 4 wheel drive pajero. Pretty sweet i suppose.

Along the way, I witnessed first hand on how Vietnamese peepz navigate themselves through the streets. Holy cow, the streets were filled with motorbikes and occasionally some cars but the dominating vehicle on the streets of Nam is definitely the bikes. It’s a heaven for rempits everywhere. And sheesh the traffic lights were just guidelines for them. If you’re confident enough to go against the traffic without getting hit, by all means you can give it a shot. That’s what all of them were doing.

Crazy crazy traffic


No idea who's going where. lol




My first Vietnamese meal




Fuh, this lady really knows how to make a good breakfast.




Bread with eggs. Superb! The bread was crusty on the outside, and soft on the inside. It was just perfect. Ah, but she cheated me of a thousand dongs though...


Me, mingling with the kids =D




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