Today was Cu Chi tunnels day - got up early but were too late to have breakfast so grabbed a Banh Mi Thit from a street vendor. Vietnam has really great crusty baguettes and they fill them with pork, minced fat (I tried not to think about that!), veggies and chilli sauce and they are really tasty.
As normal on these tours we stopped at an art gallery to try and make us spend money (we were only 20mins from the tunnels - started to get annoying!)
At the tunnels we saw the traps the Viet Kong used - pretty scary - they covered them all with grass and waited until someone trod on them. Tonnes of spikes - some of the traps were ingenious, but looked like they would have been pretty painful!!
We also saw the holes they dug for hiding in - the wooden covering/hole opening was about the size of an A4 piece of paper (maybe a tiny bit bigger) and grown men were getting in there to try it out!
Finally we reached the actual tunnels - you can walk through 70m of them and there are exits every 10m. As I've said before I'm too big for Asia and managed 10m before I became too claustrophobic and had to get out. The others managed it all, even some of the bigger guys, but they said it was very tight in some places. They also told us that they had widened the tunnels for tourists so they must have been minuscule when they were in use.
Tried tapioca for the first time - apparently it was the staple diet for those living in the tunnels. Wasn't too keen - a mix between potato and coconut.
Tom and I went for a drink on the rooftop bar again and we randomly met Vicky again who I met when I was in Bangkok. We played some cards (s***head was the order of the day!) and then I headed to meet up with my old school mate Nicole and her boyfriend Steve who currently live in China but were on winter vacation.
We all went for a curry that evening - there was 15 of us and it was such a great evening - we had a private room upstairs and consumed far too many beers before having a reasonably early night