Cu Chi Day Trip
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 26 Dec 2017 23:17
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Cu Chi Day Trip – Stuff We
Saw
  We left the trendy eatery area of
town, including Moo Beefsteak and headed through the
less expensive area.
 The shoeshine
man enthusiastically waved after I took this picture. Couldn’t believe
the chap in the cream shirt, he balled up an empty carrier bag and chucked it in
the gutter.
  A bit of
electrickery.
 Sad to say, we see many bird cages holding wild birds too beautiful to be trapped
just because they are colourful or sing prettily.
 Typical street
scene.
  A Hindu
temple. Coolie hats are the height of
fashion.
 A happy
lady selling her satsumas.
 A general store on the
move.
 A depressing scene of litter and rubbish.
 Our guide pointed (top centre of
picture) and told us that this was where the famous, Pulitzer Prize
winning photograph of Kim Phuc, the little girl running down
the street, naked after a napalm attack. Kim grew up and began her
studies to be a doctor but part way through her course was taken out and
pedalled around as a propaganda tool. In 1986 at the age of twenty three, she
was given permission to finish her studies in Cuba, where she met her fiancé. En
route to their honeymoon in Moscow they asked for political asylum in Canada
when their plane made a scheduled fuel stop in Newfoundland. In 1997 Kim passed
her Canadian Citizenship with one hundred per cent and lives in Ontario with
their two children. Kim still has to have surgical procedures on her left arm
and back.
 A pot
shop.
  A butcher
and a general store.
   Lunch was
a low-key affair where vegetarians were split from family and friends and made
to sit segregated in a corner....... Loved the Winnie
plate and the tree house table.
 Felt sorry for this chap in a tank that looked uncomfortably small, loads of
wild birds too, in cages for finch-sized birds.
  After lunch, our guide put on a
particularly graphic film not to the taste of some
who hid.
  A real mix at the Cu Chi Tunnels, one
minute looking at heavy guns, the next, pretty art in the shop.
  We tried our first snake venom and rice wine, a pleasant
combination.
    Back to the
city, now lit for the night.
ALL IN ALL SUCH AN
ASSORTMENT
A VERY VARIED
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