Guns and war etc...awesome!!

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I caught a flight from Hanoi down to Saigon which only took a couple of hours. I caught a moped from the airport to the main backpacker street where I decided to stay. The main thing I wanted to arrange was a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels and also the war museum so I arranged the trips the following day.
The war museum was realy interesting although abit graphic. I was just about to leave when the rain started coming down...really heavy rain! This old Vietnamese dude invited me into his shop and pulle dup a chair for me. We ended up drinking something out of this bottle with no label on....apparently it makes you strong...I was getting kidney pains after ever sip! Basically ended up having an hour long conversation with him. He couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Vietnamese...interesting! The trip to the tunnels was awesome! Had a guide which took us through some of the tunnels which were dug by the Vietcong and also showed us a load of traps they used on the Americans...some pretty sick shit! Half way through the tour I manged to part with 600,000 dong on machine guns! Had a go on the Ak47, M16 and also an M30! The M30 used to be strapped to the side of helicopters and the noise it makes is unbeleivable! My ears were ringing for hours after!
I also caught a motorbike taxi to the palace after the tour but it was closed :o(
In the evening I went out with this English on the beers whihc was a laugh. It was so funny because this little Vietnamese kid would come up to us trying to sell chewing gum. I brought a pack off him and gave him some extra and he started doing this crazy dancing and grabbed my beer of the tabel. I have a video of it which is hillarious!

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Photos

American bomb
Apparently this can total a 3km area!

Tunnel
This guy got into one of the 'Non tourist' tunnells. I just managed to fit but its impossible forme to fit into the tunnel leading from it

Closing the door
Once the door is closed you cannot see the entrance at all

Trap
Once you step on this the door gives way where theres a load of bamboo stakes

Another trap
This was like two big rolling pis with spikes on them. You can imagine what happens when you fall into the pit

M30
This was awesome toshoot. Unfortunatly there was no one about to get pics of me shooting it!

Me in one of the tunnels
Apparently these have been widened for tourists. It was still so small down there and really difficult to turn around

Exiting a tunnel
So nice when you finally got out because it's like an oven down there!