Vietnam.....Yep!

G’day all,
Well I’ve been in Vietnam for a few days now and I’m really enjoying myself here. I took a 2 day boat tour down the Mekong River from Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Saigon in Vietnam and arrived in Saigon. I’m still hanging out in Saigon with all the people from my tour and we have been really enjoying this crazy busy city. There are 10 million people living here and just about everybody owns a scooter or motorbike so you can imagine just thousands upon thousands of bikes weaving around each other like a swarm of bees. Saigon was the Americans base during the Vietnam War and about 2 hours drive from here is where most of the jungle fighting happened and where the Vietnamese soldiers hid in the Cu Chi tunnels. Yesterday we visited the Cu Chi tunnels and I learnt a lot about the Vietnam War and it was so bonza mate. Once we arrived we watched a short video explaining what happened then we went out into the woods and saw the tunnels. The Vietnamese were so smart and beat the Americans with pure genius. They set so many gruesome booby traps in the jungle all layered with bamboo spears to inflict massive damage to the Americans and many of them meant instant death. The tour was really good and I learnt so much about what went on in the war and I couldn’t believe the extent of the bloodshed. We also got to go down in the tunnels for a good 100 meters and it was so small I could hardly crawl in the things. At the end of the tour I got to feed my new addiction of shooting huge guns by firing a few shots off from an M16. That was my hit for the day satisfied but my new hobby is really training the old cash flow from me. We went out last night to a disco and I just couldn’t believe how many dirty old men there were staring up and down at all the young Vietnamese girls as if they were a piece of meat. It was really gross watching their grotty little smirks on their faces as if they could take any of them home by handing over some generosity. Today we did a tour of the city which was really cool because we went to so many places. We first went to the Presidents Palace which was really cool to see because they had heaps of neat rooms and also many rooms which were used for war strategies with details maps on the walls and radio control stations etc. We then went to the National War Museum which was amazing because it has so many crazy photos from the war and US Army vehicles on display. It was really bad to see what the effects of Agent Orange did though because there is about a million Vietnamese still suffering from the effects of the chemicals. Every day I’ve seen people with limbs shrunk from birth defects either walking or dragging themselves along on a skateboard down the footpath. In about an hour I’m off on a 2 day straight ride up to Hanoi in the North of Vietnam on a sleeper train so that should be a bit of a painful trip. Update you all from up there ya flaming mongrels. Go Alf!

Woodsy