Ho Chi Minh City
You may see our tour seems a little more flexible as we book our own private tour so it would be more easy and more free style for us.
Cu Chi tunnels + War Remnants Museum + Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theater + Vincom Center (A)
No pic. Would upload it when I'm back to Malaysia as I could only upload the photos from the camera. A bit of Malaysia's type of speaking English with larhhh(s) and bahh(s) etcetera.
Today, I woke up at around 6:00 am local time which is 7 o' clock Malaysia time. Went online awhile then I fell back to sleep again HAHAHAHA.
The next time I woke up is already 7:00 am local time. So we went down to have our breakfast. The good thing of being in the overseas is that we can have hotel buffet for breakfast. Of course better larhh, can easily choose what you want like a boss sia HAHAHHA. So I had some toast bread with extra cheese hahaha my favouriteee, and some boiled egg and some random food. Quite delicious but the drinks are quite disappointing.
At 9:00 am, the tour guide and the driver came and fetch us. So here starts our tour !
We went to Củ Chi tunnels. So the history of it is something like a place where the communist local people hide in when the Americans came to have war. So this Củ Chi tunnels is like an underground place to prevent Americans to detect their location. They actually cook, eat, sleep and do everything underground, they really do have build in kitchen, meeting rooms and bedroom de sia. This whole underground house have ventilation place like a pop up tunnel looking thingy larhh of course. So if like that the Americans sure can find out and they can put in toxic gas de marhh, so they make a mines thingy that looks exactly like that. So the Americans were confused so they brought along German Shepherds to help detect whether it is a ventilation thingy or a bomb thingy. So the Vietnamese is also smart as they put chili flakes or pepper near the ventilation hole so the dogs would go away. However, the Americans later find out that if the dog sneezes and walk away, it means that the chili flakes and pepper means there is people inside. So the Vietnamese then took those American's canned food leftover and those old clothes by the Americans that they cut into small pieces and they put it near the ventilation hole. So the dogs sniff it and find it familiar with their owners smell. So they just walked away. How smart ehh ? They even made shoes that is actually the other way round out of old tyre. The reason why the other way round is to let the Americans think that they are walking to the opposite direction but not this direction. Other than that, They were actually quite smart doing that as the way they set traps and all those stuff so impressive sia c:
Highly recommend this place. A very big and knowledgable place to visit.
Highly recommend this place. A very big and knowledgable place to visit.
This is actually cashew nuts. Quite surprising ehh hahaha
This is how they enter the tunnel ! We also had the chance
Traps
Really big millipede. The tour guide say bugs would appear when it's going to rain. But I never could imagine even big bugs are afraid of raindrops hahaha
Another hole !
Another hole again :3
The traps that they'd made
We also had the opportunity to see how they make the skin of those spring rolls
Later, we had our lunch nearby there. A very beautiful restaurant that is somewhere near to the tunnel. The restaurant name is Vietnamese name of course, so I couldn't remember but I remember the English translation is something like this pier as it is near the the river. We had our chance to wrap our own spring roll ! Fun sia HAHAHAHA. I'm not a fan of spring roll in Malaysia, I find it tasting very weird that I couldn't accept it though. But the spring roll here is quite acceptable especially those fried one is definitely those type I like, I don't favour the fried type spring roll in Malaysia at all. But yeahh, the one here is nice but my brother who likes the Malaysia type one doesn't like it hahahah.
Then we went to the War Remnants Museum and the prison that American people lock the Vietnamese and torture them in. The prison is just a small replica for exhibition only larhh, the real one is far away on an island. Quite torturing sia, like many of them actually sacrifice for their country) The war museum is really very sad. Like those kind of tragedy they faced last time during war is so torturing sia. They had napalm bomb (I think it's those kind of burning type), phosphorus bomb (acid type), those massacre, and the agent orange. Agent orange is something that I am going to talk about now as it kind of like only happens in Vietnam by the Americans during war, it's like a kind of poisonous gas that is released. It brings a lot of side effect. Like those inhalers would have a strong chances to have miscarriage and when their kids are born they would have many deformations and syndromes. It's a really late and serious side effect like most of the agent orange victim face severe problems on their kids and sometimes on themselves (cancer or skin problem etcetera). It's really sad to see those pictures and to think about how harmful it may cause for you to bring in air. Like seriously, your kids in the future I don't know how larhh, maybe the next generation's gene is affected (?) like they are definitely going to be deform and having some serious syndrome or even becoming Siamese twins ? Many miscarriage sia, like they even kept all those baby (most are deforms and Siamese twins again) in bottles.
Now let me use this picture (a really famous one) to start off the topic of massacre...
picture adapted from Wikipedia
When they were about to shoot them. The photographer asked to stop and he took this picture. The next second, he heard several bullet sound. He dare not turn back. And from the corner of his eye, he saw people falling down. The photographer felt sympathy and he cried. Sometimes people are innocent, did they do anything wrong ? And I believe the photographer has no wrong. He all might have think that he could have stop them and make a difference but no actually he couldn't do anything. You see, there is two boys around 7 years old and 3 years old. They were being shot by the Americans from far. When both of them fell, the elder brother actually protect the younger one from being shot but the next moment when the Americans came over, they shot both of them to death. How cruel is that ? I actually cried when I read all of the documentary pictures about the war, how could this happen ? They even made funny ways to kill the victims like they would use nail bombs and even take a sack and put it over the victims head and pour water over it making the victim impossible to breath and they would suffocate to death, they even tied them by their tank and let them being drag till death.
WHY ? Do they still have humanity in them ?
After that, we went to take some pictures at a really grand looking Catholic Church and their local pos office which had already last for 200 + years.
Church
Pos office
We had our dinner and then we had a 30 minutes walk back to the hotel.
Some really beautiful buildings nearby in this place that is almost like France (as Vietnam is conquered by France last time)
The Opera House night view