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So after Dalat we went to a place called Mui Ne, which is by the sea and is popular with kite surfers. Absolutely millions of them, Charlie you would have loved it! Mui Ne is on a mini desert and is supposed to be the driest place in south east asia, so no rain! Woo hoo! As the rest of the country is stormy and rainy we decided to stay there for a bit and soak up some rays (Kat managed to even burn her fingers and toes!) 5 days of sunbathing, sea and relaxation with a little trip to the sandunes to do some sliding down sandunes on pieces of plastic (is it a sport, does it have a name?!!). Only downside of the trip out is that we did get screamed at by little Vietnamese boy something along the lines of "you very bad, you die, snake will bite you and you die" because we wouldn't give him any money for showing us where the four leaf clovers were! They do exist! Actually we did give him money but the quantity wasn't to his satisfaction.
After Mui Ne we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, which is not at all as pretty as Hanoi but we all like it just as much because there's more to do. We visited the War Museum yesterday which is horrendous and we all thoroughly hate Americans now. Only joking (sort of). Ha. The museum was a bit of an eye opener tho, I had no idea that they used toxic chemicals (Agent Orange) to kill all of their rain forests and crops and as a result give cancer and birth defects to the next three generations. The pictures were bad enough but they had dead mutated foetuses in tanks, it was the worst thing ever. Also most of the people they shot dead were civilians and they disembowled loads of children. I did not know these things.
Today we've been to the Cu Chi tunnels, which were really cool to see too. We got to, I'd say walk, but it was more of a crawl through 100m of tunnel in the dark. It was well cool. Very clostrophobic but I loved it. All their booby traps they designed were well clever but savage. Lots of hidden poisonous spikes involved. There are three layers to the tunnels and tourists can only fit in the first layer which was a squeeze, can't begin to think how small the bottom layer is. Ridiculous to think that they lived in tiny tunnels for 20 years. Hard to comprehend.
Tomorrow brings a parting of the ways! Simon and Kat have never been to Thailand or Malaysia and me and Matt have so they are going to do Cambodia and Lao quite quickly and then have more time for the other two. Kat's going with a girl we met called Gemma and Simon alone by motorbike. Me and Matt are going to take our time and then scoot through Thailand and stop to see some sights (and my cousin) in Malaysia.
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