Vietnam Bike Adventures

This is a vast network of more than 200 km of underground tunnels in Cu Chi District- Ho Chi Minh City, nearly 70 km Northwest of Sai Gon. These tunnels were constructed and used by Viet Cong to conduct operations, sometimes within the perimeters of American millitary bases and hide from the enemy. These are thoroughly fascinating subterranean vestibules, where Viet Cong lived, slept and ate... There are underground hospitals, kitchens and communications system centers. There are living areas, sleeping quarters and munitions storge centers. There are even "street signs" under the earth to help guide arrant guerrilas and newcomers. When operational, these tunnels amazingly stretched all the way from Sai Gon to Cambodian border. You may get a chance to fire an AK-47 and an M-16 with American bullets which are collected from the war.

The Mekong Delta was formed primarily by mud from the Mekong River spreading in forklike directions out to the East Sea. The area itself was sparsely populated until the 19th century, when Vietnamese settlers moved slowly to the down South to take advantage of the newly formed region's rich agricultural potential. They call the area 'Mien Tay' or ' West'. Most of the area's geographical, cutural and architectural attractions are, such as temples that may appear to be hundreds of years old may in fact have been built as recently as the 1930s and 1940s. The oldest area of Mekong Delta is Ha Tien, on the South-western coast at the border of present-day Combodia. Ha Tien was settled and hightly prosperous sa early as the start of the 17th century. The estuary of the Mekong Delta, extremely marshy, dominates the lower quarter of the country. The area is low and flat and ferfect for cultivation of rice in this rich soil, crops grown in the Delta include mango, mangosteen, jack-fruit, orange, and durian among others, this region is also famous for shrimp, cat- fish,....