Day 247, 2nd February DMZ at coast - Truong Son - Cam Lo Nick and Rory woke us at 7.30am after their camping suareé in the DMZ, they’d not been blown up by un-exploded stuff, and we were on the road just afterwards. We looked on the nearby Ben Hai estuary, and beyond to the south was and endless white sandy beach stretching into South Vietnam. As we were looking south, we notice that the bluff we were standing on was actually a bunker, and that there were loads of overgrown trenches, many with rusting remnants of barbed-wire from the war time. We continued along country roads, paralelling the Ben Hai river. There was nowhere selling food until we reached the main road, and then it was a short ride to the bridge crossing the Ben
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