Cu chi tunnels......

We had booked a half day excursion to the cu chi tunnels, and it was nice to get out of the city for a while, we got on our air coned bus and started the ninety minute journey to the tunnels, we had our own guide and walked around the tunnels in a small group and it was a really good day and the tunnels were really interesting, the Vietnamese soldiers were so clever...... One example is that they made these shoes.....

 Like sandles and they look like your averages sandles however if you turn the shoe over then you will see that they are made so that when you walk forward the footprint is Infact facing backwards! Just one of there many tricks ! They had many traps all around the surrounding area of the tunnels and also in the the tunnels itself.

......the tunnels themselves have 3 levels....the first level (closest to the ground) was for cooking and resting area, they would only cook once a day early morning and they made it so that by the time the smoke from the cooking reach the tiny chimney it could bearing be seen, however they soon realised that level 1 could easily be destroyed and would cave in when attempted to be invaded so they made a second and third level the second level you could sort of crawl through but the third level you were almost flat on the ground, all the tunnels had escape routes but only level 3 would exit in to the river a very good escape route, the tunnels themselves were never bigger then 60cms wide. We got the chance to go In to these tunnels we went down and I couldn't do it it was to small I had to come out but Luke gave it a of and he said it was small ! But it was good he tried it :)

 

The tunnels were a lovely day out and we really learnt a lot and had some fun, probly our face thing we have done in Ho Chi Minh city.