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March 3, 2007
Cu Chi Tunnel (Joe)
The Cu Chi Tunnels are about an hour by bus ride outside Saigon.
The tunnels where build in the Vietnam war to protect the Cu Chi local villagers from the American troops. They are really amazing, set in the countryside with some up to 4 floors deep. There are about 200km of underground tunnels which house everything from sleeping to cooking and some people even got married in the tunnels.
They are really well thought out with very small entrances so that the small Vietnamese peple could get in but the bigger Americans couldn't. If anyone did get into the tunnels there were traps and trapdoors stop them from passing in to the main system. They made use of everything they found during that time. They used old parachutes for hammocks, old bombs were cut up and made into other weapons to be used against the Americans.
It is really amazing to think that they lived underground like this for ten years while the war was on.
If you get chance go and see them. They're amazing.
Posted by admins at March 3, 2007 2:37 AM