Yesterday mommy had to organize a lot of tickets for traveling for bus and plane. ALso we have a tour for today to the Cu Chi tunnels which are about 60 km from Saigon. This is the place where you can see how the Viet Cong (guerillas who were communist friendly with the North and fighting South Vietnam) were living under the ground in order to hide from the US troops who tried to control HCMC. At the site of CuChi were 16000 Viet Cong hiding also women and children in the 200 km wide tunnel net. They cooked also underground and produced bombs out of old not detonated US bombs - all in all it's amazing to see how smart they were - seeing all the traps with spikes makes you sure not ever wanting to be in a war.



This is Robin going into a tunnel and camouflaging the entrance.



We walked in the first and second level underground for about 80 m (80cm wide and 120cm high) quite scary to get stuck, hot, dark, cramped...... and this already was the touristic version - so a little bit bigger than the originals - no wonder it was hell for the GI's to enter a tunnel:



Tomorrow a tour is planned to see the floating market - unfortunately instead of seeing this places on a selfmade trip we had to book a tour since first the weather wasn't so nice so that we decided to not travel through the Mekong delta by ourselves. We will need a little drink in the morning in order to survive the traditional dancing performed for the tourists .... oh well better than not at all... and maybe it won't be so bad after all.

Tomorrow night we will hop on the bus to Mui Ne and the next stops will be Na Thrang, Hoi An, Hue and Hanoi. Realizing how little time is left we had to skip a few stops...=( our flight to BKK will be on Saturday 14th which will give us one day shopping in BKK before we will be heading home.