Me firing an AK47

Asia Tour Leg 5, day 11

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March 28th 2010
I was up at 8.00am this morning with a severe hangover before getting the tour bus to the CU CHI Tunnels. These are a complex of underground tunnels that some of the Vietnamese people retreated to during the war. They fought from underground using various deadly booby traps, sniper holes and other tactics with the limited resource they had. There was a short walk into the jungle first of all be ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City » Cu Chi

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more