Cu Chi tunnels and Cao Dai temple

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Today we took an excursion out of town to the cao dai temple and then to the cu chi tunnels from the American war. The temple was intersting. Cao Dai is a religon that started here in the 1920's or 30's and tries to blend Christianity, Budhism, Confuscionism, Islam, ancestor worship and a few other sects. We saw their great catheral and the beginning of a service at a site very close to the Cambodian border.

On the way back to HCMC we stopped at the Cu Chi tunnels. This was the end point of the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam war and had a tunnel complex with 10s fo thousands of people living underground and tunnels that led from the border with Cambodia all the way into Saigon (120 km)

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Traffic in HCMC
lots o scooters. There are 8 million people in HCMC and they have 4.4 million scooters

Comments

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Cow Day?
This sounds like the religion I might be practicing, but the pronunciation...is it Cow Day or Cow Die? Because I like cows.