Day 1 of Vietnam trip was full of excitement and sweat. After touching down to Ho Chih Min City, i had a bad culture shock. Motorcycles pack the roads, only few cars can be seen, NO ONE seems to be concerned with traffic rules, everyone just move around the road like it's their grandfather's road. Everywhere you go, you can hear horns horning like nobody's business, it wasn't till towards the end of the trip tat i realised they used horn to warn other motorcycles that they are approaching, so please keep left.
Our first lunch in Vietnam at a high class Chinese restaurant. The food was superb, anyway, ALL the food we had in Vietnam was all superb, so much nicer than in Singapore!
On our way to Cu Chi Tunnel........ we saw many many skinny cows....
Outside Cu Chih Tunnel.... fighter plane behind us.... Vietnam was in war for many many years with the Americans and i think, the French.....The Vietnamese then dug the 120km long Cu Chi tunnel in order to avoid the bombings from their enemies.... The Cu Chih tunnel has 3 layers, all underground, and air ventilation is very very bad in the tunnel, ventilated by camouflaged bamboo sticks from the tunnel to the ground above.
Heading down to the tunnel...... happily smiling at the camera...... but little did we know it'd be a torturous, long and dark but exciting 30m trip.....
The start of the tunnel, as u can see, i'm squatting to get in.... and for the rest of the tunnel trip, i'll be in this position...........or worst..... cos as you get further and further in, the tunnel gets smaller and smaller....this entrance was widened for tourists... can you imagine years and years ago when they were having war... how bloody small the hole was?? They dug the tunnel very small for a reason, cos the Vietnamese knew that the Americans were very very big sized.... so the Americans probably wouldn't be able to go into the tunnel, even if they could get in, they couldn't get out... cos of many many booby traps that the Vietnamese had set aside in the tunnel...
The start of the tunnel, as u can see, i'm squatting to get in.... and for the rest of the tunnel trip, i'll be in this position...........or worst..... cos as you get further and further in, the tunnel gets smaller and smaller....this entrance was widened for tourists... can you imagine years and years ago when they were having war... how bloody small the hole was?? They dug the tunnel very small for a reason, cos the Vietnamese knew that the Americans were very very big sized.... so the Americans probably wouldn't be able to go into the tunnel, even if they could get in, they couldn't get out... cos of many many booby traps that the Vietnamese had set aside in the tunnel...
Another hole, which none of us wanted to get in.... hahaha... so the tour guide just demonstarted how the Vietnamese gets into the hole and camouflage themselves.... The tour guide told us to just follow him and do not make any turns unless he tells us to, if not, be prepared to get lost in the tunnel forever....there's no way any 2 humans can possibly squeeze side by side into the tunnel...so we went in one by one.... and all we could see was the tour guide's torchlight, other than that, it was pitch darkness....it was bloody scary inside the tunnel, u cannot see anyone infront of you, u can only hear their voices "turn right turn right,dont turn left!" "slope slope!! careful!" ta ma de, slope in the middle of a fucking small tunnel..... i almost died can.... i mean, i really almost died, it was underground.... bad air ventilation, such tiny tiny tiny space i almost had claustophobia........ it was like a nightmare come true.. remember there was a movie when 5 girls went hiking in a cave...... and one girl was fucking stucked in the tunnel........
THIS is how small the damn hole was.......
fucking scary small hole..........
fucking scary small hole..........
Tour guide dared our frens to get into another tunnel on their own..... "just walk straight" he said........ "what if we turn?" "then get lost lor".... my frens GEI KIANG, purposely made a turn, and both of them screamed underground.... the rest of us were waiting anxiously at the exit, shouting at them telling them "HERE HERE!! exit is here!" cos we thought they got lost... and guess what they told us? "WAH we saw HELL LOTS of bats at the turn we made!!!! DAMN SCARY!! then both of us screamed" ................ dot dot dot
some of the booby traps made for their enemies..... BEFORE: innocent looking thing...
After: Man Made spikes from bamboo sticks....
Well, after the knee buckling Cu Chi Tunnel trip..... we went to fire some REAL shots.... REAL GUNS REAL SHOTS OK!!! ok, this is not new to those army guys... but to us girls, it was something very new ok..... but i really hated the sound..... everytime someone shoots, it's like i almost jumped out of my skin..... BLOODY LOUD even with the ear mask on..... earpoundingly loud..... ok, i was very very scared..... so i closed both eyes and shot..... and the guy who was instructing me was like shouting "open eyes open eyes!!" cos it was very dangerous to close eyes and shoot.... hahhaha..... he must be thinking im a real idiot...but seriously damn scary wat!! i cant remember mine was the Carbine or M16........
The boys took the AK........ AK47 ah? can't remember AK what... sounds like counter strike to me....
At night, after bathing at the hotel (which turned out to be surprisingly big and comfy).... we went to have dinner in a big boat/ship restaurant....
all of us, posing infront of the boat restaurant and blocking everyone's way into the restaurant...hahaha.. but we didn't care.....
Needless to say, dinner on the ship was fantastic..... sea breeze blowing at your cheeks....... delicious local food.....yummy......
some of the booby traps made for their enemies..... BEFORE: innocent looking thing...
After: Man Made spikes from bamboo sticks....
Finally, exiting the tunnel................. after 30m of walk underground.......
The worst part of the tunnel trip was.... when i was half crawling, half squatting trying to will myself to move on towards the exit which seemed fucking 1km away..... something fucking FLEW PAST and BRUSHED AGAINST MY CHEEK....... i fucking screamed like nobody's business and everyone thought what happened.... CAN YOU IMAGINE?!!! you are in such an enclosed area...... in pitch darkness.... and you can only grope your way through the darkness (cos towards the end of the trip, u'll be far far far behind the tour guide, cos there are many many ppl infront of you, u wont be able to see the torch light from the tourguide) and something fucking fly past so close to you, and you dont know what the fuck issit! it wasn't until i was out of the hole did the tourguide told me it was a bat............ OMG..... ARGH......
Well, after the knee buckling Cu Chi Tunnel trip..... we went to fire some REAL shots.... REAL GUNS REAL SHOTS OK!!! ok, this is not new to those army guys... but to us girls, it was something very new ok..... but i really hated the sound..... everytime someone shoots, it's like i almost jumped out of my skin..... BLOODY LOUD even with the ear mask on..... earpoundingly loud..... ok, i was very very scared..... so i closed both eyes and shot..... and the guy who was instructing me was like shouting "open eyes open eyes!!" cos it was very dangerous to close eyes and shoot.... hahhaha..... he must be thinking im a real idiot...but seriously damn scary wat!! i cant remember mine was the Carbine or M16........
The boys took the AK........ AK47 ah? can't remember AK what... sounds like counter strike to me....
At night, after bathing at the hotel (which turned out to be surprisingly big and comfy).... we went to have dinner in a big boat/ship restaurant....
all of us, posing infront of the boat restaurant and blocking everyone's way into the restaurant...hahaha.. but we didn't care.....
Needless to say, dinner on the ship was fantastic..... sea breeze blowing at your cheeks....... delicious local food.....yummy......
and there was even a fire eating show onboard the ship!
ok.... that was the end of day 1........... more updates to come!
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