We arrive in HCMC at around 4.30 am. We knew our rooms would not be ready but we had the chance to freshen up and dump our bags. We then headed to the park to do some early morning Tai Chi with the locals. However, I think they must have finished their class so it turned into an early morning Cha Cha Cha!! Very surreal but great to get the blood flowing after the train journey. After brekkie we headed to Cu Chi to visit some of the tunnel network that the Viet Cong used to fight the US army during the war. We crawled through one of the original tunnels - literally on hands and knees. There are hundreds of these tunnels that the local villagers used to hide from the bombs and to fight
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