Sunday, 17 March
Saigon day 2 Trip to the Cuchi Tunnels today. Man gave a really balanced account of the conflict while describing the horror of fighting from the tunnel system and the horror of the American weaponary including Agent Orange. We then watched a proaganda film on the conflict, but it did give some understanding of the Vietnam heros and heriones of the war.
Sue and I crawl through two tunnels, one very narrow indeed.....look at the traps at the tunnel entrances and a clever smoke distribution system that allowed underground cooking without creating a plume of smoke. What a bloody awful conflict this was...and ultimately pointless from an American point of view.
Lunch at Monsoon Thai restaurant then back to the hotel to get our heads around life outside the protective SAGA group cocoon...
Farewell dinner goes well even if it's the only English cuisine we have eaten...we win the raffle and get a metal rickshaw with working chain and bits..wow! As much wine as you want. Man says goodbye to us over his speechifying microphone as we are staying on and won't see people again...Sue says thanks and a few nice things...pretty impressed - never ceases to surprise me this woman. Everyone we have chatted to comes over and says a fond farewell..hugs kisses and manly handshakes abound. Oh the emotion!
BONUS! See replay of Australian GP when we go up.....God..that McClaren is BAD. If I wasn't on this adventure, I might get depressed.
See George tomorrow!
Shared with Memoires for Android http://market.android.com/details?id=net.nakvic.dromoris http://sites.google.com/site/drodiary/
No comments:
Post a Comment