Feb 13

After breakfast on the rooftop deck we took a tour to the Cu. Chi tunnels.  During the war in Vietnam, thousands of people in the Vietnamese province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate network of underground tunnels. The tunnels were used by Viet Cong guerrillas as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters for numerous guerrilla fighters. The tunnel systems were of great importance to the Viet Cong in their resistance to American forces, and played a major role in North Vietnam winning the war. The tunnels were originally very small as the viet cong were tiny. They have been enlarged for tourists but they are still small. Ron went down the tunnel but not me ☹️  But I did go into the hole that they used to hide themselves  We went to the Independence Palace, also known as Reunification Palace. It is the site of the end of the Vietnam War during the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its gates. And then to the War Remnants musuem. It had US military tanks, planes etc in the grounds. The inside was difficult. It contained 2 floors of graphic pictures and displays on the US invasion. One section showed protests from around the world but mostly there were pictures of torture and fighting. There was a lot of information and horrific pictures of what happened with agent orange