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Hi all,
the blogs are well overdue as they are nearly a month out of date but I will try and get updated in the next couple of days I promise!
Ok, so we left Mui Ne on the 26th of Feb and headed for Ho Chi Minh City, one word to sum up this city would be Mopeds and lots of them. There are thousands of them and you just have to hope and pray when you cross the roads that you dont get hit (look at the video and pics) as there seems to be no rules you stick to when driving.... absolutely crazy, mental! While in HCMC we needed to get our Cambodian visas as we were told that sometimes it can be difficult getting them on the boarder (which turned out not to be the case in the end). We made a few hectic trips to get them, the embassy was not very helpful but we managed to sort it all out in the end. It worked out well walking to the embassy as we ended up finding a few parks to walk through and a department store with a cinema, bowling alley and very posh Pizza Hut. We ended up going back their one night and played a few games of bowling and ate a lovely pizza.
On one of the other days we went to the Cu Chi tunnels (one and a half hours away from the city) built during the Vietnamese war. Our guide was really funny, his English was good although he was still hard to understand at times as he added the accent of that American police guy in an early James Bond film, halarious! We got to go through the tunnels which were very small. You had to crouch down the whole way and at some points crawl on you hands and knees! I got really chlostrophobic and had to get out after 30m. God knows how they managed to build them, over 200 miles worth apparently, just like rabbit warrens with rooms underground to eat and sleep in. After we went to a shooting range and decided to shoot the legendary AK47, SO loud, but fun. We then went to a handicap charity based workshop where people affected from 'agent orange' (chemicals dropped during the war) were making all sorts of beautiful pictures and souviners, we got to see the workshop and processes start to finish, and ended up buying a picture from hundreds of choices in the display gallery (now on a boat somewhere heading for the UK we hope)!
Also went to a war museum, very gruesome with nasty pictures explaining the war, the chemicals used and the mines that were laid all over Vietnam and Cambodia. It was really biased towards the Vietnamese as they blaimed the Americans alot but we learnt a great deal about what happened during this time. Many original US planes, helicopters, tanks, bombs etc all on display also so it made us understand how scary it must have been back then.
I will add another blog soon. Missing everyone at home
Speak to you all soon
Love Jen and Sean XXXX
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