We can now officially use the term 'back in Nam' when we refer to our time spent in Vietnam as we have arrived today in Laos after a painstaking 25 hour journey on 3 different buses. Vietnam was incredible and so far my favourite country in South East Asia, we really managed to get to grips with the culture and take its history firmly by the horns. Our time in Saigon was rather short as it didn't have too much to offer besides your standard bustling Asian city. It was however the gateway to our learning about the history of the Vietnamese-American war, with an enlightening war remnants museum housing many weapons, aeroplanes, tanks, graphic photos, replica tiger cages where prisoners were kept and disturbingly, jars of deformed foetuses, the result of the horrific chemical weapon,
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