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Today was another school day for me. It is the first time I have encountered Daoism. Started in Vietnam in 1926 the religion now has 7million. Seeing how poor the people where they started a new religion. It is a combination of Buddhism, Taoism and confuscionism. Known as Gao Dai
Three colours. Yellow colour Buddhism Blue colour Taoism Red Confuscionism. So take your favourite buts ofeach religion and ditch the rest.... Strangely enough the place felt really peaceful and the mass looked amazing.
Our second stop was at the Cu Chi tunnels. This is a 200k network built over 25years to fight and defeat the Americans during the war with 'nam'. We had to opportunity to travel some of these tunnels. To give you an idea how cramped these truly where I was on my hands and knees to crawl along the 1st tunnel of about 100m for the second tunnel I had to take off my back pack and push it infront of me and still my back touched the top of the tunnel for 50m. Then 8 of our group of 10 had pulled out of second tunnel, myself and ironically an American tourist kept going. I was leading the way when my trusty maglite disturbed a bat, with no warning, ability to turn or nowhere to go I starting crawl reversing as quick as possible until i fell butt first out of a side tunnel in true laurel and hardy style!
Another epic and slightly terrifying day!
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