Saigon

I arrived in Saigon from Dalat in the early afternoon, I checked into a pretty nice room for about $6, my own bathroom and cable TV. Thats pretty cheap for Saigon, especially since the dorm room in the hostel was $7 a night and that is a shared room and bathroom. Anyway, checked in, wandered around a bit and just explored the local area. I was meeting Ben and Tammy the next day so I saved some of the big events for them.

Everyone trains their dogs to sit on the motorbikes like this, its amazing.

The next day, I met up with Ben and Tammy and we just explored Saigon. We went to the war history museum which was pretty interesting. Really sad, but had some amazing pictures and stories. Very anti American, but that was expected.

The day after we went to the Cuchi Tunnels, which were similar to the tunnels I went to the in the DMZ, but they were more for war purposes than the ones up north. These tunnels were soooo small! And they were actually widened for tourists, so I can't even imagine what they used to look like. They were used for the Vietnamese army to run around underground, spring up and attack the Americans, and then run back down underground.

Entrance to the tunnels

One of the traps set up by the Vietnamese army. Ouch!

Me, Tammy and Ben on an old army tank

Me with an AK47 or something

Tammy in the tunnel

View of Saigon

I loved Saigon, too bad we only stayed for a few days since my visa was almost up. Headed out to Cambodia.