Day 3 :
This is our 3rd day in the HCM . We have our breakfast at the hotel . Then waiting for our tourist guide to Chu Chi tunnel . We left our hotel at 7:45 pm and heading to TNK Travel and shifted to another bus . Our journey took us for 1.5 hours with a distant of 70km from HCM.
The tunnels of Chu Chi was the holy revolutionary base of Military Region Committee Saigon -Gia Dinh High Command of ChuChi district Party Committe and all Chu Chi people , where was slso a versatile battle information to front enemy and to contribute significantly to task of enemy fighting and national unity . The present Chu Chi underground relic is preserved in 2 areas of Ben Duoc and Ben Dinh .
Upon arrived at the area , our tourist guide Mr Ky explained more information on this area and guide us to each interesting historical area related to the tunnels . His english is very good and a funny guy too . We spends almost 2 hours over here . The most interesting here , we can try shooting the gun and try walking through the tunnel . Our family just try the 20 meter tunnel and that was a good experienced .
We left the tunnel at noon and directly headed to HCM . We gave Mr Ky a big thumb for his satisfactory and enjoyful tourist guide . At HCM , we walk to Serai Restaurant for our lunch . We have a nice lunch over there which costs us 720,000VND . Its quiet expensive for the halal foods in Vietnam .
Then we proceed back to the hotel to performed solat and have some rest . After that my wife , daughter and me going out from hotel leaving behind the boys in the hotel . Why ? because my wife want to do some shopping or else the boys will get bored ..... For the start , we went to some textlile shops for window shopping and proceed to Hong Anh Shop and Minh Collection , where my wife and daughter bought some clothes . We also went to Saigon Square , not so special ...it is like more like Petaling Street in Malaysia , and I bought a blouse for my daughter here after some bargain .
It is 8 pm . The night market already started . We are among of the first customer shopping at that market so we can get special bargain price . My wife bought something . It is very important to bargain more than 50% ... and it is a place where you can test your bargain skill .
After shopping , we drop by at Serai Restaurant again for 2 set of nasi goreng ... take away... which cost us 250,000VND . Then we walked back to our hotel ... See you all tomorrow !
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| fajr view from our hotel |
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| the hotel restaurant |
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| walking to the buffets table |
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| sons enjoyed the breakfast |
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| Alhamdulillah ... I am already full ! |
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| new generation .... their good friend Ipad and Iphone |
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| center of communication ... games |
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| the reliable taxi Vinasun |
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| walk to the bus |
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| the monument infront of Ben Thanh market |
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| exchange the other bus over here ... at TNK Travel office |
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| the bus start to move to Chu Chi tunnel |
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| view at District 1 |
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| view at the highway .. some new shopping complexs |
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| most of the building tall and slim ... french colonial style |
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| the green paddy field |
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| arrived at Chu Chi tunnel ... the reception to buy ticket , mine already included |
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| Mr Ky gave overview on the tour agenda |
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| son interested reading the map of the tunnel . Reading ?? |
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| as a start ... watching Videos on the tunnels history |
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| the body traps .. show how creative Vietnamese are |
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| the tunnel ... can cater small size people only . |
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| everybody pay attention to Mr Ky presentation |
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| the bunker |
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| time to snap the photo |
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| resting time |
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| with the minequin ... Vietcong |
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| act like the Vietcong |
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| the military tank |
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| another photo |
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| various styles of body traps |
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| son in one of the bunker |
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| rest area ... where you can experienced shooting with real riffle ... |
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| the lady preparing the rice paper for the spring roll |
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| watching how they digging the tunnel |
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| try getting inside the tunnel ... very interesting part ! |
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| smile before you go deeper ... the big American infront , wonder how he can make it ! |
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| actually inside is dark ... took the picture with flash ... the second son infront of me |
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| one person at one time ... the eldest son at my back |
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| after get out from the tunnel ... the display of the big black bomb |
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| Bye bye Chu Chi ..... On the way back to District 1 |
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| arrived at HCM .... have lunch at this reataurant |
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| foods are nice ... the way they cooked resemble with Malay cooking |
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| walking back to our hotel |
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| after getting some rest at the hotel .. going out again for shopping |
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| shops at Hong Anh collection |
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| meet with many Malaysian shopping here |
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| there are a lot of shops available at this street |
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| the another outlet of Hjh Basiroh |
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| HCM at night ... busy with motorcycles ... thousands of them |
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| another view ... this road more calmer |
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| window shopping |
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| infront of Saigon Square ... |
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| at the night market .. you can test your bargain skill here |
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| At the District 1 ......you can see a lot of Merry Christmas decoration |
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| For dinner , we stop at Serai Restaurant again |
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| infront you can find Muslim Champa restaurant |
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| back to our Kingston hotel |
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