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Củ Chi tunnels

Củ Chi tunnels were used by Viet Cong guerrillas as hiding spots during the war with USA. True fact, there were about 65,000 people living in those tunnels for 20 YEARS!! They had kitchens, hospitals, they even made their weapons in the tunnels! Guess what those tunnels were super small in size, the reason being is that so the American army would not fit in any of those tunnels. Look at the picture on the left (I am SURE that I wouldn’t fit in that one )

I had actually tried to go into the tunnel (the one that I tried had been “resized” to fit a larger size of tourists) and even though it was resized, it is definitely not an easy life down there! It was hot, humid, hard to breath, and poisoness spiders, canterpides, snakes live there too. So you could imagine how HARD te Viet Cong life was! 20 years they had to live in the tunnels with fear and uncertainty everyday for 1 generation! Not knowing when the next bomb or poison is gonna come!

I’m seriously so so blessed to live in a peaceful country where life is so much easy!! Believe me.. Our lives can get hard, but seriously compared to what they had to go through. Our life is heaven on earth.

Tips: Feel free to give generous tips to the local army and make sure to go there in summer time.

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Happy Travels,

Eliazar Putera

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Darwin

It was definitely a short trip! Too short since it was only a transit – Arrived and filled up an immigration card and went for a luggage check and waited for the plane to fly to Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon. I can’t really say that I have been to Darwin, at least I have waited at Darwin Airport. he he . I only took 1 picture of the airport and it was from the distance too hehehe – i know sorry!, at least you could see how the airport looks like from the plane . Darwin is not one of those big cities that is filled with man-made buildings, from above, it looks quite nice as the sky was blue and lots of boats in the water! Beautiful!

The airport is very small and there is not much to see or do besides going to the loo he he he and duty free of course. So yeah…

Tips: well, I’m gonna have to leave it blank since, I didn’t really experience Darwin as a traveler should! – I like having my iPhone when waiting at the airport so I could listen to my music while waiting or facebook

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Happy travels,
Eliazar Putera

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Darwin

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