View from our New World Hotel room. |
Another view from our hotel room. |
On the road to Cu Chi Tunnels we stopped at this small home factory where the woman is making paper sheets. |
Display map showing extent of the approx. 200 km long Cu Chi Tunnels, 40 km northwest of Saigon. |
Map showing the Cu Chi Tunnels complex. |
The tunnel entrance that we used. |
Here is Lester, showing the size of the opening in the tunnel system. |
Only in the many rooms could we fully stand erect. We had to stoop or almost crawl in the tunnels connecting the rooms. Here is a display set up to show how they lived. |
A sample of the bamboo or steel spike traps set up throughout the tunnels on which to impale invaders |
The Ben Duoc Temple was built from 1993 to 1995 and has a stone "Stela" with about 50,000 Vietnamese names who fought and died in Saigon. |
Inside view of the stone tablets with the names. |
Danuta, resting on the portico of the Temple showing the type of terrain in the background. |
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