Ho Chi Minh City part 2

We are 2 days into this city.  Very similar to Hanoi.  A little less dirty.  A little more upscale.  But just as chaotic and busy.  15 million people live here--half the population of Canada.
We moved to a quieter hotel.
Yesterday we did a Meekong river tour.  This river starts in Tibet and goes through 6 countries--China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Malasia and dumps into the ocean via Vietnam.  Vietnam has a river culture and we learned all about it.  At one point we loaded into smaller boats and trawled up some tributaries.  We were reminded that this is how the war was fought.
Today, after church John, Siebe and I toured the Cu Chi tunnels.  These are tunnels made by the Viet Kong in the civil war.  20,000 soldiers lived in this maze of 260 km along the Saigon river.  Fascinating in their tactics to elude the americans.  They made booby traps with spikes, made booby traps to catch american dogs, went to great lengths to avoid being smelled, used fireflies for light, used the tides of the river to their advantage, etc.
Bus ride there was through crazy city traffic.  Taxi driver dropped us off at the wrong place so we had fun walking the streets.

Tomorrow--last city!!  Back to Singapore.

Also later I will tell you about Saigon night life.  But bed time.  We depart at 6 am.