Vietnam

I RODE AN ELEPHANT AND SHOT AN AK-47!! That’s the gist of what I did in Vietnam.

The first day in Vietnam I went around Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to a bunch of shops and bought stuff for really cheap and found a place to get some suits made and got measured for those. The second day I went out to a Cao Dai temple and to the Cu Chi tunnels, that took up the whole day. The tunnels were really cool, there’s a firing range at them where you can shoot AK-47’s, carbines, shotguns, and some fully automatic guns. So while you at the actual tunnels you here these guns going off in the background which makes the whole place come to life, plus it started raining after a little bit which just added to the realism of it all. Then at the firing range I had to shoot an AK-47, cause that’s probably the only chance I’ll ever get to shoot one of those so I bought 10 bullets to shoot. But I’ve never shot a real gun before so the first gun I ever shot was an AK-47.

On one of the days after the tunnels Ben, Rick and I caught an hour flight to Yok Don National Park so we could ride Elephants!!! We got on the plane and arrived there and hired a cab for the day to drive us to the park and back to the airport to catch our flight back to Ho Chi Minh. We got to the park without a hitch and we rode an elephant for an hour, which was amazingly awesome!

After the elephants the next day I went to the Mekong Delta. For a $7 trip they gave us tons of food, it was pretty cool.

I also visited the War Remnants museum that was……….good to see. A good way to describe it is as an anti-american museum. There are a lot of pictures and documents that aren’t so easy to look at, but it’s definitely a different viewpoint on the war than what is taught in schools in the U.S.

That’s about all there is to say about Vietnam. This isn’t a very in depth look into Vietnam which is mainly because I’m extremely tired and I have tons of work to do for school but also because I know have pretty much every tv show I’ve ever wanted on DVD cause you can get them in Vietnam for really cheap.

But there is one more thing to say about Vietnam and that is that the food in Vietnam is amazing!! As is the food in pretty much all the ports we’ve been to. I couldn’t get enough of the Vietnamese food, it’s some good stuff.

For pictures: Rick, Ben and I on an elephant, a Cao Dai Temple service, our elephant pretty much under water, a picture of the Mekong Delta and me by an A-37 plane at the war remnants museum.