hey its me AGAIN... yea yesterday i was a bit pissed off with my com... i wanted to update the post... but my com just didnt allow me to put up any pics... so here i am to do some late posting....
well yesterday we went out of the main city center and out into the provincial areas of cuching... we went on the intention of seeing the vietcong tunnels... the weather was threatening as there was a constant lingering threat of rain... but nevertheless we still went on a small step of faith that the sky would hold...
on our journey to cuching we saw this interesting scene of 4 motorbikes filled with lanterns all geared up for the up coming lantern festival....
people around here really use their motorbikes to carry all sorts of things... yesterday itself i saw another guy carrying this huge store signage the is prob 10ft in length and 4 ft in breath... my cousin even said she saw this guy carry dragon fruits up to 10m high... it is really amazing here... these motorist could be attractions by themselves performing really unusually dangerous yet skillful balancing acts on their little 100cc motorbikes...
upon arrival at the cuching tunnels we saw the various boobie traps land mines and more importantly the tunnels themselves...
here is the common boobie trap they had... it comprises of a trap door where by is step upon its victim would fall on to a merciless bed of spikes... but not all victims were this lucky to step on to this particular kind of traps... there were other traps that came in the form of bear traps that clamp your leg impaling great pain.... others had a single spike go from heel all the way up to your knee cap... it was really grusome...
then came the most ingenuous contraption made by the vietnamese that spread out to a total of 200milles across the country and close to a hundred meters deep... this was their tunnels... it was this that lead to the defeat for the americans...
now look carefully... this is what a tunnel enterance would have looked like during war time...
this is what the tunnels inside the base looks like.... the tunnels were split up into 3 levels... the first level being the escape route from the ground level second level being the holding quaters and planning quaters and the last level is where 1000 men stayed in during the war in just the small section of cuching... the top level tunnels are the cramiest of all... they are so small that they are just nice for a vietnamese to squartdown and duck walk his way through... once inside they would not even have space to turn... they had widened a small part of the tunnels for us to enter... already after widening, clastrophobia still sets in... one really wonders how they could survive with during the war... o and you may be asking... how do they get air??? well walk around the camp with sparodic signs of bomb craters and you would see a few termite nest here and there... but are you sure they are termite nest???
well as you can see they had no advance for of weaponary but they still managed to beat the americans... they were largy out numbered in both man power and technology... but they still won... doesnt that say alot about its people...
oooo now on the topic of food... i finally managed to try the local vietnamese food for lunch and dinner... lunch wasnt to my liking... i felt that the dishes were a bit too heavy on spices... but i think it would be quite nice for people who love the taste of peppermint basil, etc...
for dinner we had something like steamboat...the steamboat was really nice... but i really pitty the seafood down here.... the prawns were so poor thing... they were scewered from their rear stopping just before their head... they were still like jumping around and crawling all over the place... i really pitty them... and then a few mintues later they were dumped into a pot of boiling water still alive... sigh... sad isnt it... well thats the life of a prawn... well ill post the rest of todays happenings later on at night.... CYA...
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