Cu Chi Tunnels and Cao Dai Temple

Inside the Cao Dai Temple

This week I've been on a trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels and the Cao Dai Temple which are both about 3 hours outside Ho Chi Minh City.

The trip started with a visit to the Cao Dai Temple which is home to the Cao Dai religion. Which was started in 1920. These people pray at the temple 4 times a day every day at 6am, 12pm, 6pm and 12am for about 45 minutes. This works out that they spend about 45 days a year praying. I'm not really sure what else to say on this one.

Cao Dai Temple

I got told off for forgetting to take off my hat and there was a big eye at one end of the temple like the one in Mordor. Also we all had to take off our shoes at the entrance and as there was over 150 people in the temple finding my shoes took a few minutes and as the floor was really hot from the sun you had to keep jumping to stop your feet burning. We stayed to watch about 10 minutes of the 12pm praying session before moving onto the Cu Chi Tunnels.

Giving us information on the tunnels

The Cu Chi Tunnels were pretty cool. There are over 200k of tunnels built by the VC in the war with America and we were given a tour around one of the areas and given information on the area, the tunnels and the war. I've uploaded some pretty cool videos below. We were shown a small secret escape hatch which the VC used to hit and hide the Americans, which was very small although I'm pleased to say I managed to fit into it.

Inside the tunnels

We got to go into some of the tunnels although these were specially built for tourist as its unlikely many Western people would fit into the holes as the VC were alot smaller than us. It was a great trip.

Apart from my trip, I played darts again last night and lost. Can't complain the guy was really good and I'm please to report the cats not been back to the house.

Check out the Videos below as they are pretty good.

This first video is of a secret hatch hidden in the ground. Its very well hidden and very small.

The second video is of one of the traps they set for the Americans. They used lots of different types. All of them were pretty nasty.