esor's HAEppiness!: Indochina Trip 2013: Exploring Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Good Morning Saigon!

my choice of breakfast, bread + omelette + milk coffee + pineapple :)

Ngoc Minh Hotel

Ngoc Minh Hotel arranged our half day Cu Chi Tour, for 6 USD per person. The tour guide fetch us at the hotel around 8 'o clock in the morning.

Since this is a group tour, we fetch some tourist along the way. Most of the tourist are Westerner, of course Asian like Japanese and Korean were also present on tour :)

Motorbikes are everywhere in Saigon

According to our tour guide, motorbikes population is much bigger than Vietnam's population, the ratio is like 3:1. I also learned that vehicles/car is pretty much expensive here, I guess that's the main reason of traffic free in Saigon.

After an hour, we had our 20 minutes stop over to the Handicapped Handicrafts, wherein amazing artistic people doing egg-shell masterpiece! Seeing how these artworks have done, I salute these hardworking people! Disability is not a hindrance to do things.

Cu Chi Tunnel

Opening Hours: Mon - Sat (9:00am - 6:00pm)

Entrance fee: 90,000 VND

Entrance to Cu Chi Tunnel

Our first stop is watch the documentary film.

Ben Douc Underground Tunnel Complex

Our tour guide who easily fits to the secret basement

Magic! ^^

Trap

More traps used during the war demonstrated by our tour guide

Mannequins soldiers

American Tank corpse in the tunnels of Cu Chi

I'm lost ^^

This is the original tunnel, that mostly Vietnamese or slim person can fit.

They made a tourist tunnel, where everybody can fit in and I personally tried it.

We exit to the the next tunnel and feel exhausted!

Showing how Vietnamese work on their weapons during the war, these are operated moving mannequins with sounds, you could even hear how they work on this.