Day 2 18th July Chu Ci and Dinner
Well I woke early and a little dazed from the late night, I was feeling a little worse for wear and not quite sure what was going on! I didn’t have any water so I grabbed some out of the fridge and started the day. I knew roughly where their hotel was and started my walk. The amount of motor bikes and scooters on the road was amazing, and when you look to cross all you see is a wall of traffic rushing towards you. I learnt that you just have to start walking and then keep going, they will go around you, but be more weary about cars, they don’t seem to worry about anyone else.
Upon finding the hotel I was early so decided to get some breaky, on the street corner they were serving some food so I hit them up and they gave me some Pho (noodle soup) which was pretty tasty, then I went to meet the girls. The rest of their tout was there and they were all really nice. It was about a 90min bus ride to Chu Ci and I had a little doze on the way, over hearing people arguing about the difference between communism and socialism, does it really matter?
When we started looking around it became very obvious of how proud they are of their war effort, and fighting off the Americans (not that they shouldn’t be). It was a very biased point of view but then when I thought about it Australians see everything the Australian Army does in the same light. Every digger is brave and stands up in the face of adversity. The tunnel complex was amazing, there is over 250kms of tunnels between 3m and 10m underground. They had hundreds of people living there, and could sustain soldiers as well. They had ammunition making facilities, kitchens, they made equipment all underground. They showed how they used to use American bombs and other ordinance to make their own bombs and ammunition, it was extremely resourceful. The entrance and exits of these tunnels were amazing, they would have been about 30cm wide by 20cm long and the few that hopped in struggled to make it(bulky westerners).
They showed the various booby traps that they used and they were horrific, some would have been so painful it makes you shudder just thinking about them. One had two I suppose rolling pins with long spikes coming out and where at the top of a deep pit. When you tread in the middle you fall down the pit being stabbed hundreds of times on the way down. Another than really made me shudder was like an upside down stool. There was a spike heading up in the center say 45cm under ground that you would tread/fall on, then there were spikes angling in facing down do if you pull your leg up they would really dig into and cause a lot of pain.
They had a rifle range there and you could fire about 10 different guns, I decided to have a go at an M16 5 shots about $8. I can’t believe how loud these shots were, they were deafening, can’t imagine having to fire one of these day in day out at war.
Then we had a chance to get into the tunnels they had widened an 80m length for westerners so you could go through pretty much a very low squat. It was extremely tight and surprisingly stuffy. There were sections where we had to crawl so that we could fit. I assume that they would have been crawling the whole way. It was very claustrophobic. 
After the bus home we organised to meet up for dinner, so I went back had a nap then went to meet for dinner. We were going to a very popular local BBQ place where they BBQ literally anything that can move. There was Rat, Frog, Cricket, Scorpion etc etc. We decided to get one normal dish each and one crazy one, so I ordered Scorpion. I also tried some Rat, Crickets and Bulls Penis they all tasted more of the BBQ cooking than actually having much taste.
After this we went out and had a great night out plenty of drinking and dancing had by all. 