Officially 'Ho Chi Minh City', many people still call this 'Saigon', and the river flowing through is still called the Saigon river. Photographically, the holiday got off to a slow start, with very few of Saigon itself (our sight-seeing of this town was rather limited, but compensated for with heavy doses of history later on the trip).
Cu Chi TunnelsJust 40km from Saigon, this area was never captured by the Americans during the war. The labyrinth of tunnels in the Cu Chi district was originally built during the first war of independence, against the French ("the French war"), and was extended for the war against the Americans ("the American war" as the Vietnamese know it, the "Vietnam war" to the rest of us). |
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