Tuesday, April 13 "
We were picked up in Saigon airport by Houng, who lives near our hotel. she went with out to eat. We would like to have a restaurant where we had to cross the street. Communication was not so good. We ordered something and got something completely different, but it tasted good. My dinner came under Houng's man with the proprietor of the restaurant. They had been at a party together. The owner was very generous. Houng gave the whole dinner. A long day with lunch at Ton Le Sap lake and dinner ii Saigon Vietnam.
Meg Keyser friend
We started at. 07:00 and drove to the Cu Chi tunnels built by Vietcong during French occupation of men, but significantly larger in American war. It must have been a hell for both vietnamersene and Americans, when you see all the ways you could slaughter each other. There are approx. 250 km tunnels. Where the tunnels were there were no trees and shrubs. The Americans threw orange poison out so all vegetion disappeared. But nobody thought of it also killed people. Today there are many children who were born after 1975, when the war was over, which also has problems with hearing and legs. I believe that everyone was excited to see these tunnels. It was also Nga, a Vietnamese girl, Meg knows and who incidentally was on the trip.
Cu Chi
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We must from Cu Chi at. 10:00. There is some way to Tay Ninh. Next stop is the Cao Dai, a religious movement which is composed of Christianity, Hinduism and Budism. The big parade starts at. 12:00 and lasts approx. 1 hour. We were there only for 20 minutes.
Tay Ninh Cao Dai
Tay Ninh Cao Dai
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We drove then to a restaurant and had a lovely lunch. Hostess I know. Now it went back to Saigon. If we can achieve it we visit the old presidential palace, now musæum and called Independence Museum. It was here that a North Vietnamese tank drove through the gate and ended the war 30 / 4 1975th
Presidential Palace 30/04/1975
20 years of suffering was over. Now the country rebuild. There were many problems at first. PolPot from Cambodia occupied a part of South Vietnam. He believed that Vietnam was very weak. There live many Khmer who are Cambodians in the southern provinces. It took one month to Vietnam had committed PolPot. He did, however, to kill the second mill of his own countrymen. It was kinerserne to move into the northern province of Lao Cai. kinerserne smashed across Lao Cai before vietnamerserne were driven kinerserne back. Now there came new trænselstider for Vietnam. USA got the whole world to boycott all goods from Vietnam. There was great famine. It was also at this time that all bådflygninge came to Denmark from 1980 to 1990. Today, the market economy in Vietnam. Vietnam has the second highest growth rates in the world, only surpassed by China. Vietnam's growth rate is four times larger than Denmark. Vietnam is emerging. We had a lovely dinner with Hoang and Hop. They live only 50 meters from our hotel. They ran us to the station. We drove in Hops car and a taxi. Now we sit in the train. Hoang followed us up in the compartment. We got started in the thermos with coffee and cappuccino. New experiences await tomorrow.