We were quite excited about the upcoming trip to Cu Chi Tunnel on Day 6, and having everyone wearing that Vietnam group shirt is just awesome.

...
Even though it is evident in our faces that we were tourists in Ben Than Market. Haha.

Josephine's face.

Ahlong (our tourguide) bought us to a rubber plantation before heading down to Cu Chi tunnel for a site visit.

I had seen these in television shows and pictures, but never before in real life.
Thumbs up.

The first thing we did when we reached Cu Chi Tunnel was a slight introduction of the history of CuChi Tunnel. It spoke of the war between the Americans and Vietnamese in the past.

The introductory video was quite funny, because it seems to sterotype Americans by calling them some awful names.

Imagine crawling in a tunnel that's smaller than the one below here:

I could just imagine the backaches you will get by walking in the tunnel much less living inside it. The Vietnamese were really tough people. (Y)


We walked around the area, and we saw how this woman here is making rice paper, which can be used for spring rolls and coconut candy.

SUPER EXCITED.
THE HOLE. THE HOLE.
HOLEYMOLEY. Its really damn small leh.

I think this guy demonstrate going down the hole until sian already.

Some of the traps Vietnamese used during the war with Americans. Pretty clever, i must say. Not to mention painful to imagine.

See this line of slippers!!
They are all made out of rubber! Super cute.

We were supposed to take a photo with the tank, but somehow the tank just kinda vanished among the reds. Hah.

Okay, the moment! Going in already!

Inside the tunnel, it was moist, dark and there's poor air ventilation, therefore its super stuffy. We all sweated like cows. Hahahaha!


I was holding on to JR's shirt because he moved too fast for me to catch up! I scared later i go the wrong passageway, then i wont know where i'll end up sia. Haha.

The tunnel's not just a straight road with curves, but sometimes you have to climb up steps or drop down a level to continue crawling.

After climbing out of the tunnel, we wanted air con so badly. Hahaha! It was a relief to reach the coach after the crawl. Its a good experience definately.

Lunch @ KFC.
Yes, KFC.
Hahaha, sounds funny? Its a nice change to the regular 6 course meals we are receiving everyday, thats' for sure. Do you know they even serve rice at KFC?

Vietnamese loved their rice too much. Hahaha. Maybe the reason Vietnamese are so skinny is because they rarely eat fastfood.

Headed over to the Water Puppet after lunch. It started to drizzle a little.

I love the smile! HAHA. :>

The fisherman of the story.
Actually, i have no idea what the whole story is about, just that there's a couple who rears a couple of animals and basically, talks about their way of life everyday.

The puppeteers!

We headed to the Post Office for jumpshots!
:D

Then we went to Saigon Square for shopping. There really isn't much there that' worth buying because the prices are really high and they dont do bargaining.

With kangjie and edwin.

A small group of us headed back to the hotel to rest before heading out to Ben Thang Market for more shopping before dinner!


Gotten some awesome buys. Heh. :D

Dinner at a local restaurant again. But this time round, there's PHO (fur)! Its Vietnamese staple dish all the time. Its basically chicken/beef noodles.


However, we were having dry beef noodles that night so it wasn't very appertizing.

This dish is damn weird. Never tasted anything like it before, and didnt liked it. Its like... rice. Hah.

Headed back to the hotel supposedly to sleep, but then Edwin and gang crashed our room and we had helleva fun laughing away and dancing. :>


AWESOME NIGHT!

We bought snacks and drinks and they came over to our room.

Shannon on Josephine's bed. Hahaha.

Dont have to describe much, the photos already said it all. :>
Halfway through all the laughing, we decided to get serious and learn the dance steps for our performance.


Its hilarious watching everyone learning the steps seriously, but we managed to finish half of the whole routine in one night.Quite an achievement actually.

Awesome buddies! Vietnam wouldnt be this much fun without them! Haha.

((:

We were quite excited about the upcoming trip to Cu Chi Tunnel on Day 6, and having everyone wearing that Vietnam group shirt is just awesome.

...
Even though it is evident in our faces that we were tourists in Ben Than Market. Haha.

Josephine's face.

Ahlong (our tourguide) bought us to a rubber plantation before heading down to Cu Chi tunnel for a site visit.

I had seen these in television shows and pictures, but never before in real life.
Thumbs up.

The first thing we did when we reached Cu Chi Tunnel was a slight introduction of the history of CuChi Tunnel. It spoke of the war between the Americans and Vietnamese in the past.

The introductory video was quite funny, because it seems to sterotype Americans by calling them some awful names.

Imagine crawling in a tunnel that's smaller than the one below here:

I could just imagine the backaches you will get by walking in the tunnel much less living inside it. The Vietnamese were really tough people. (Y)


We walked around the area, and we saw how this woman here is making rice paper, which can be used for spring rolls and coconut candy.

SUPER EXCITED.
THE HOLE. THE HOLE.
HOLEYMOLEY. Its really damn small leh.

I think this guy demonstrate going down the hole until sian already.

Some of the traps Vietnamese used during the war with Americans. Pretty clever, i must say. Not to mention painful to imagine.

See this line of slippers!!
They are all made out of rubber! Super cute.

We were supposed to take a photo with the tank, but somehow the tank just kinda vanished among the reds. Hah.

Okay, the moment! Going in already!

Inside the tunnel, it was moist, dark and there's poor air ventilation, therefore its super stuffy. We all sweated like cows. Hahahaha!


I was holding on to JR's shirt because he moved too fast for me to catch up! I scared later i go the wrong passageway, then i wont know where i'll end up sia. Haha.

The tunnel's not just a straight road with curves, but sometimes you have to climb up steps or drop down a level to continue crawling.

After climbing out of the tunnel, we wanted air con so badly. Hahaha! It was a relief to reach the coach after the crawl. Its a good experience definately.

Lunch @ KFC.
Yes, KFC.
Hahaha, sounds funny? Its a nice change to the regular 6 course meals we are receiving everyday, thats' for sure. Do you know they even serve rice at KFC?

Vietnamese loved their rice too much. Hahaha. Maybe the reason Vietnamese are so skinny is because they rarely eat fastfood.

Headed over to the Water Puppet after lunch. It started to drizzle a little.

I love the smile! HAHA. :>

The fisherman of the story.
Actually, i have no idea what the whole story is about, just that there's a couple who rears a couple of animals and basically, talks about their way of life everyday.

The puppeteers!

We headed to the Post Office for jumpshots!
:D

Then we went to Saigon Square for shopping. There really isn't much there that' worth buying because the prices are really high and they dont do bargaining.

With kangjie and edwin.

A small group of us headed back to the hotel to rest before heading out to Ben Thang Market for more shopping before dinner!


Gotten some awesome buys. Heh. :D

Dinner at a local restaurant again. But this time round, there's PHO (fur)! Its Vietnamese staple dish all the time. Its basically chicken/beef noodles.


However, we were having dry beef noodles that night so it wasn't very appertizing.

This dish is damn weird. Never tasted anything like it before, and didnt liked it. Its like... rice. Hah.

Headed back to the hotel supposedly to sleep, but then Edwin and gang crashed our room and we had helleva fun laughing away and dancing. :>


AWESOME NIGHT!

We bought snacks and drinks and they came over to our room.

Shannon on Josephine's bed. Hahaha.

Dont have to describe much, the photos already said it all. :>
Halfway through all the laughing, we decided to get serious and learn the dance steps for our performance.


Its hilarious watching everyone learning the steps seriously, but we managed to finish half of the whole routine in one night.Quite an achievement actually.

Awesome buddies! Vietnam wouldnt be this much fun without them! Haha.

((: