In our second part of our day trip 70km out of HCMC we had a little nose around the Vietcong tunnel complexes of Cu Chi. War is a serious and horrible thing, and a visit to the War Remnants Museum the previous day highlighted that fact (hardship, the slaughter of innocent people, agent orange and birth defects ect.), but I can without shame say that running around underground tunnels and checking out gruesome man traps was good fun. Unlike Cambodia, the war in Vietnam ended 30 years ago and its people are very much prepared to forgive and forget and instead concentrate on making money and being happy. You only had to be in the company of our guide Huong to appreciate this. Extremely camp, he liked nothing better than jumping around, laughing, singing and playing
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