{"id":87,"date":"2019-10-08T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2019\/?p=87"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:33:36","slug":"day-10-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehuntergatherers.id.au\/2019\/vietnam-and-cambodia\/day-10-saigon\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 10 \u2013 Saigon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Our Vietnam tour officially finished today and our Cambodia tour officially begins. With 11 others from the Vietnam group we booked a tour to Cu Chi tunnels, about an hour out of Saigon. Incredible stories of ingenuity and survival by the Viet Cong in a network of 280km of tunnels, totally surrounded by French then American forces. Our tour guide \u2018Tan\u2019 was superb. He explained everything so clearly and with great humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stopped in at a house where the woman of the house makes 1400 rice paper sheets a day, for payment of about $US10 a day. We also learnt that police make about $US400 per month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After returning to Saigon the 6 of us continuing on to\nCambodia went for a walk to the local tourist markets where we made a few last\nminute purchases to use up the last of our Dong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then met with our new group leader and the people joining us for the rest of the journey. Our group leader is Sotheavy \u2013 pronounced something like Tee-a-vee, a young Cambodian woman from Siem Reap. Tomorrow we cross the border into Cambodia and head for Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we disband, I realise I never introduced our group\u2026 Collin, Kerryn and Nicholas from Sydney, Belinda and Darrell from Perth, Debbie and Brigitte from Boston, Mark and Emma from Dublin, Elena and Vitali from Germany, , Peter from London, Niahm from out of Dublin and Dad and I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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