Hello, so currently waiting at the hostel before we take our midnight bus to Cambodia. Katie had a three-year-old girl sitting on her lap, playing a fish computer game. This girl, Anna, is adorable. Her Mum works for the hostel. We just spent an hour with her admiring her newly painted nails, playing with her rubber band collection, taking out the rubber bands from the princess backpack, then putting them back in, trying to unsuccessfully make card houses (not very easy with a fan), kicking around the ball, bungee jumping my anti-itch cream. She also took a lot of photos, pretty sure she loves the camera. It's been quite busy.
Today we left early and went on a tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels. These tunnels were used by the Vietkong in the Vietnam War. It was all part of their guerilla warfare. The tour was quite amazing. We saw the trenches they ran through. There were secret, tiny openings to the tunnels completely covered by leaves. I went down into one of them, some people weren't allowed to though because, as our touguide said, they "drink too much beer."
One part of the tour was all about the traps that they set up. The most scary was this ditch with poisoned bamboo sticking up from the bottom. There was a kind of swinging door above the ditch that was covered with grass. If you fell in the hole would just dissappear again, covering you up. Terrifying! There was also this door one, where if American soldiers opened a door it would swing down and stab them in multiple places. The tourguide said, "no more babies."
Some other things we did:
- climbed an old American tank
- saw how all the weapons used were recycled from U.S. bombs
- heard a billion gunshots from the shooting range, if you payed you could shoot an AK-47 or machine gun, crazy.
- ate some tapioca with peanut sauce - I quite liked it, Katie didn't
We soon slept on the bus ride back home where we proceeded to:
-eat pastries at this place called ABC pastry, we sat there for a few hours just catching up in our journals
-went and changed our bus so that our final destination is Siem Reap (skipping Phnom Penh)
-bought some super comfy, slouchy pants - need them for Angkor Watt temple
-ate some Mac'N'Cheese that tasted a little more like Spaghetti-O's
Fun day, now a 12-hour bus ride!
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