I have returned to Asia after two and a half weeks home in Sydney. Ho Chi Minh city was more of a culture shock than I imagined and it stupidly took me a few days to realise I had it after wondering why I wasn't enjoying my trip as much as I should be! It's actually not overly busy or dirty compared to other Asian cities but nevertheless different to Sydney and much busier than Vientiane! It's just a bit more commercial than I'm used to.
The War Remnants Museum with some good information about the war and some scary cells and torture instruments. There was a general section about bombs and I particularly appreciated the pictures of Laos. I liked the pictures of people sheltering under a large rock as they had done during the war while they were destroying a pile of bombs. There was a picture of a girl rowing a boat cut out from a bomb- something I didn't know they did.
The Cu Chi tunnels where the Viet Cong dug some tunnels near Ho Chi Minh City. Unfortunately on the tour I was on I only got to see 30m of the tunnels but I guess I got what I paid for! The Fine Arts Museum and the Ho Chi Minh city museum had a lot of communist elements similar to museums of Laos. People got the chance to fire a machine gun of their choice at the shooting range. The AK47 was the smallest gun there you could use. Needless to say, it was not quite up to Australian standards and the noise was very scary. Other machine guns included the Carbine and the M30 and M60.
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