Monday, November 4, 2024

Our first 20k in very hot weather

 Today we cycled to Cu Chi tunnels where the VC had 250k of very small and tight hand dug tunnels.

There is some other random stuff as well.





An American tank blown up with a mine & us.

Here's Ho & us.


Tunnel entrance.



At the Post office.


Drink stop on the morning ride.


Exiting after crawling through a very small tunnel from another entrance.


Leaving the hotel for a day out.

Carmel & Greg crossing the road after we had already crossed. Nobody will sloww or stop at a pedestrian crossing.




Lunch.


At the palace.


Me entering a VC tunnel.

Video.




The bikes ready for pickup on our first cycling morning.


Off the bus and grab the bikes for the first ride.





Rubber plantation.


Various American bombs

And rockets


Some AK47s


Model of the tunnel system.


A 25 minute propaganda movie, in very bad taste.


Tunnel entrance.


Bob













video


Roadside workshop.








Dinner

Outside the dinner venue, you can easily be run over on the footpath as it is just used as another part of the road. The footpaths themselves are in a terrible state of disrepair in many places as no maintenance has been done since French colonial days in the 40s,





Some very unhappy live fish, soon to be fried fish.


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