We love to explore!!! =): Ho Chi Minh City Day 2

Day 2 started with a breakfast from one of the roadside stalls. We saw many locals having Banh mi for breakfast so we decided to try it. Banh mi is basically french baguette with meat/egg and coriander, with mayonnaise and fish sauce.

Banh mi stall near The Sinh Tourist

YY enjoying his Banh mi

Iced coffee for me and milk coffee for YY, which is be a must-have for me everyday in Vietnam. And I do not usually drink coffee in Singapore!

We walked to The Sinh Tourist office which was a few metres away from our hotel and waited to board our bus which brings us to Cuchi tunnel.

Booked a Cu chi tunnel tour online with The Sinh Tourist which is popular with many backpackers

Start of our Cu chi tunnel tour

This is one of the places every tourist will have to go if they were to visit HCMC. The tunnels of Cu chi were where the Vietnamese guerillas hid during the Vietnam War and it was quite interesting to learn the various tactics they fought back the American troops.

Demonstration of how the Viet Cong hide underground

Booby trap

Bamboo spikes inside!

I always find it funny when I see YY posing with army tanks as he deals with them during NS

Rifles used during the Vietnam war

While waiting for the ang mohs to be done with their shooting session, we went to buy a corn lol

We went down into the tunnels to have a feel of what the Viet Cong experienced while inside the tunnel and it was really cramped and stuffy and dark. I had to crawl/ duck walk all the way inside and I felt like dying as my legs and back were aching. Really amazing how they managed to survive inside.

Queuing to go down to the tunnel

Only picture I too inside the tunnel. It was total darkness inside and really cramped.

Shagged faces

Tapioca with peanut as a reward from the tunnel crawls!

Came back to The Sinh Tourist around 1pm and we only had 30min to settle lunch before our City tour commences. We bought from food from the roadside stalls again.