War Remnant Museum
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
Another war tourism is War Remnant Museum (Museum Honors War) not far from the District No. 1, which tells about the atrocities the U.S. military and its allies during the Vietnam War. Page museum was filled with the carcasses of tanks, fighter aircraft, helicopters, artillery, etc. seized the U.S. made during the war.
There is shown the history of U.S. involvement in the civil war in Vietnam. U.S. atrocities are described for example by mentioning the statistics how many million tons of bombs dropped, how many millions of liters of pesticides are being sprayed to kill the plants, agriculture, forests and humans, the number of casualties and so on.
More pictures of atrocities GI soldiers also appear in a variety of black and white photographs, such as torture chambers and detention cells. That is not there is a Vietcong atrocities at that time. So the spirit of anti-American propaganda is still felt.
War Tour
Travel to Vietnam December 13th, 2009
In addition to selling the beautiful natural scenery, the Vietnamese government offers to the tourist attractions of war. Two main object is the Cu Chi Tunnels in Cu Chi Province, which is about 60 km north of Ho Chi Minh City, and the War Remnant Museum in the city.
Cu Chi Tunnels are one of the destinations visited by many people want to see evidence of persistence of the communist Vietnamese against foreign troops, especially during the French, during the independence war and U.S. troops invaded the country.
Entering the Cu Chi Province, which was a peaceful village atmosphere and shade. Unlike true with the atmosphere of Ho Chi Minh City is busy and frenetic. Invisible traces showing this area as the battleground of the most all-out bombardment of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Unlike Ho Chi Minh City, there are not many old buildings visible on either side of the road. The houses are still relatively young age. Similarly, the existing plant. Not looking trees with large diameter as in other areas.
According to Phi, our tour leader who refused to mention his full name, this area at the height of the ground war by incessant bombing. In fact, the trees are all gone either due merangas bombed, napalm or die due to flushing agent orange so poisonous and deadly.
But the story in the Cu Chi tunnels are not initiated during the Vietnam War. The tunnel had been built by local people as a form of resistance against French colonialism. At that, the colonial develop rubber plantations in the region. For workers, the managers of the garden wearing men from villages around to work camps. This is what ultimately generate resistance and hatred of the Vietnamese people against the French. Finally, while doing resistance, residents build tunnels near their homes to hide when the French soldiers came to search for the men. This underground tunnel that led to French colonialism ended.
