Vietnam Post Number Hai

Second full day in Vietnam. Linh and I booked a trip to the Cao Dai temple and Cu Chi tunnels. It was a long trip 3.5 hours to get to the temple. Cao Dai is less than a hundred years old, and is sort of a new religion, but more of a blend of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taosim. And Victor Hugo is involved somehow as well as Sun Yat Sen. Strange. We saw about 15 minutes of a ceremony, which started with singing and some music, videos posted later. It was then another 90 minutes to the Cu Chi tunnels, part of an elaborate 200 km tunnel system used by the North Vietnamese to hide and facilate 'killing American soldiers'. They could easily escape and get to rivers or other tunnel systems when necessary. They stayed there during the day, and came out at night to farm, work, and kill. We went through about 50 meters of the tunnel (enlarged for western bodies) and it was claustrophobic and starting to hurt at the end (video coming). I also got to shoot an AK-47, as there is a shooting range attached. Guns are really, really loud.