Can not see anything. Today we are in a very interesting place, that is, in the tunnels that the Vietnamese built during the Vietnam War. We came here especially to show you what it looks like from the Vietnamese side, and it's not exactly like in American films, Hollywood films, large productions, where American soldiers were shown to fight bravely and heroically. Well, it turned out that the Vietnamese were destroying them a bit here. They had a lot of interesting ideas on how to conduct these
fights. Well, we'll show you that in a moment. Very good. It's a pity that... it's not vodka, right? The ruler of all confusion. This is where they unload everything. There they wait for someone to take them. It's not like it's that easy. The guys are playing cards here. It looks like Mad Max. We've been waiting for an hour, haven't we? People barely get off and they're already hunting them, damn it, at 3 am. I guess it finally worked out. A guy came to pick us up, but we're still waiting. Two
hours of delay until he finally showed up with a list and called us. We were just about to leave, actually. Well, two hours, how much can you wait.
We have Paulina here already in her sleeping bag. It will also be a difficult journey. We know where we are, because we ordered one portion of rice, literally one, and we got one for comparison, this is my hand. There is simply such a huge bowl of rice that you feel like you are entering the American side. Massacre. I sleep better here than in this
VIP. Well, it's surprising that it's better here than there. That's true. This bed isn't straight, it's tilted a bit, but damn it's better somehow. Dogs. We took the octopus from a recommendation from the drivers. For 100 thousand. Cool. And we arrived at the station in Ho Chi Minh City. We are quite far away, because it stops even further behind the airport, so from here we will have to travel for another hour and a half by public transport. So a little repacking from all the platypuses into th
e backpack and off we go. Daniel just woke up. The guy tried to cheat us a bit. He wanted to give us less money by about 10,000, but you always have to look here, count the money they give you, and even if not, just check the money or look at it suspiciously. They wonder, maybe I gave him the wrong change after all. It's going to be bad. And he sorted himself out. We already know where the saying "such a Saigon" comes from . And you won't believe it, but damn they tried to cheat me again in Ho C
hi Minh City. They served us papayas or something else they call it and say it's cool, that it's free and the tea is also free, and then they bring us a bill that covers the tea and something else. February 9, 9:00 a.m. We're going to the tunnel at Cu Chi. Today we are in Saigon and we will explore it, and this is our vehicle. While traveling around Vietnam, we often chose to rent a scooter. This is one of the cheapest forms of traveling here, because the rental and fuel for the whole day usuall
y cost no more than PLN 35. An organized trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels cost PLN 70 per person. Although we recommend riding in the city to brave people, anyone can ride outside the city without any problems. Some more scams. The entrance fee is 35,000 dong, and the service costs 90,000 dong. 125,000 entry fee per person. We got a guide who will show us around for about an hour and a half. It will take a while. The Vietnamese didn't have many resources to fight, so in Cu Chi they were very creative
in making booby traps. Inside the trap was cut bamboo with sharp tips. I'll go in first and then you can try if you want. Look, he shows us where the entrances to the tunnels were. First you need to camouflage the entrance. Then you need to hold the cover so that your shoulders are narrow and go down, bending your knees. He disappeared. Show them Paulina how it's done. How to enter the tunnels. I will see in a moment. Oh, I almost don't have to bend down anymore. Now the question is whether I wi
ll succeed. Sure, straight hands. What was it like in the tunnel? This is generally further here, it goes underneath. Under me? Yes. It's hard, it will be worse for you. I'll go there and you'll see. Well, I don't doubt it. Will I go in or not, what do you think? Okay, now it's my turn. It'll be ok, I was a firefighter. Well, that's cool. How was it? Okay, dark. Dark. You have leaves everywhere. Yes? Yes. But I went in? Did I come in? You're in. Me too. Passed. The English and Americans had a ve
ry big problem getting in, because they only made small holes for the Vietnamese, and the Americans had bigger arms, basically like mine, and they had backpacks first of all. Well, they couldn't get in there. They were trying to get from Cu Chi closer to here through the tunnels. They entered this way and exited through a small hole. They stayed there and shot from behind. They didn't stay in one place for too long. They hit and ran, hit and ran, so the enemy didn't know exactly where they were.
Before, it wasn't open like it is now. It was camouflaged so that no one could see where the entrances were. It was problematic to even find out where they were. Where are they, at what point, because they jumped out on one side and jumped in the other. They didn't have much help from the government, so everything was recycled. Like a parachute, for example. Do you know the parachute? These raincoats, hammocks are made of parachutes. They made sandals from old tires. They cut tires and made san
dals. This is the opening where fresh air entered. Kind of ventilation. In some of the Cu Chi tunnels they did not want to make larger holes that are easily recognizable, they made ventilation that was camouflaged. They used thermite for this. Before that it didn't look like it does now. It was surrounded by bush. American soldiers relied on sight, so it was difficult to find and see. First, they used search and sniffing dogs because the dog could easily smell people in the tunnel through the op
ening. If they recognized that they were tunnels, they used machines to pump water and gas inside. But that was only for a short time, and then they couldn't find any more because the people in the tunnels were very clever. They had a very good idea so that the dog couldn't smell them through the hole. They found something that American soldiers used every day. Such as clothes, soap, cigarettes. They cut them into small pieces and threw them into holes. When the dog came, it only smelled America
ns. He sensed no enemies, only friends. So the dog kept walking. Ladies and gentlemen, this area didn't look like it does now. Nothing could be seen, so they dropped bombs and chemical agent orange to clear the area. The Americans later used tanks to drive through these areas. Now you are in this forest when it is already overgrown. Blown up in 1970. You dressed in such a appropriate theme. He will probably show us some traps. This is a tricky trap. When you step on this trap, you fall and throw
up your hands. If you're walking or running and you fall into a hole, you always spread your arms like this. Nobody does it that way. This trap isn't deep, but it's dangerous for your legs because it's hard to help someone get out. If someone tried to help someone get out, it only caused them more harm. But these Vietnamese were inventive. The idea was to slow down the Americans, not to kill them, but to damage them. This trap is like an animal trap. You fell into this hole with one foot. He wa
s impaling himself on a nail and limping. This trap was used in the house and actually hung behind the door. Most soldiers held their weapons this way. He kicked the door and when it opened he went inside. Now this trap worked like a swing behind the door. But if someone had good reflexes and quickly threw the weapon and stopped it that way. It would stop the trap to protect the body, but it would only stop the top part because the bottom part would just bounce off like that. They found unexplod
ed ordnance and defused it. First they removed the detonator and then slowly disarmed the bomb. To be more safe, they always poured water on them to keep the temperature low. If they managed to defuse the bomb, they used the detonators as mines. They recycled enemy bombs. But it was very dangerous work, so they never defused bombs in bunkers or tunnels. They did it outside. We are now entering the shooting range. It's not as beautiful and colorful as you could imagine, because one bullet costs P
LN 10, but the guide is included in the price. It was hard to fight here. You can't see it at all. Try going and finding something like that in these leaves. Those that are here. Come across an entrance to some tunnel right? They dug holes 3.4 meters deep, and then they dug tunnels even deeper. The deepest tunnels were about 10 or 12 meters. But they started this way. One man was digging a tunnel, the other was dragging the earth out. He took out the soil and camouflaged it so it wouldn't be vis
ible. They dug here and there. So how did they know which way to dig the tunnel to connect? Maybe they used sounds? Exactly, that's right! What's your name? Daniel. Everyone take care of him, he's a smart guy, very dangerous. People listened to the sounds while digging tunnels. For example, if this side was digging, the other side did nothing but listen to the sounds. It was noisy inside, so they used special signals and then changed. This side rested and listened. Then the other side would star
t digging. They dug this way to connect. People in Cu Chi dug a total of 250 km of tunnels and did so for 20 years. Only by hand, they didn't use any machines. 250 km of tunnels in how many years? Twenty years. By hand, by hand. Normally you make sandals this way and wear them. They didn't do it that way. They did it the other way around. They did it in such a way that when they walked it looked like they were going the other way. If someone tried to follow them, they were going the wrong way, a
nd they could go the other way. So this sandal was deceiving the enemy. Wearing shoes backwards to leave reverse marks. To confuse the enemy. I'm not surprised that these Americans couldn't do anything. We're about to enter the tunnels. It is not recommended for people with claustrophobia, with heart attacks. I don't think anything is recommended for people with heart attacks. With heart problems, blood pressure and so on. Exactly. This is a bunker. We'll start here and leave there. The shorter
tunnel is 20 m long and the longer one is 40 m long. Not bad for squatting, eh? Take off your glasses. Okay, Paulina just cringed and I had to. The smart one without the platypus is gone, and I'm scrubbing and having to squat. Take this platypus. There is an exit there, let's go further. Let's move on. Well, now it's a little easier for me to squat. Can not see anything. But here you can practice the duck walk. Fortunately, ventilation. A breath of ventilation and freshness. Well, those tunnels
were nice. Go here with all the equipment and how to fight here later. You have to crawl all the time, otherwise you end up squatting. For example, I already had a problem with a platypus . It was not that bad. You had it easy. It was hard with a backpack. Like if I were to go with equipment, for example. This wouldn't be possible in real life. It was only 40 meters away. He was literally running through these tunnels, I couldn't keep up with him. Because he was running, I could run too. Well, t
here was nothing visible, so I just didn't want to fall down on the way. That's cool, very interesting. It worked, it's not impossible to fight in such tunnels. If we were inside, it would be really hard, we would have to crawl. Everything used to be underground. In fact, it used to be an underground city. There were command quarters, there were also hospitals, conference rooms, so to speak. All these tunnels that are, they were connected to each other like this , and there's another entrance th
ere, see? And these were the places they slept in. They could get up normally, talk normally, it wasn't like in the sewers. Here we have the kitchen, there was the canteen. Here's what the kitchen looks like. It was made to keep the smoke inside and slowly let it out. They built chambers one above the other and thus discharged the smoke to another, further place. This way the smoke came out in small amounts. This way it was impossible to see where the smoke was coming from. What is this? I have
no idea. Boiled leek. No, I don't think it's a leek. It's a leek. It's a potato. This is tapioca root, which was dipped in nuts, salt and sugar. So we eat like Vietnamese soldiers. And it tastes like potato. This is so total potato. It's tasty. I don't know if I could eat it all the time, but it's probably healthy, right? But the tea is good. Very good, it's a pity that... It's not vodka, is it? ...it's not with ice. It's definitely worth coming here. It's very cool, and the guide is great. He t
old us everything. We eavesdrop on a slightly different guide. He was just talking about the fact that in in one place, over a tunnel that the Vietnamese had dug just a moment earlier, the Americans built their base without knowing anything about it. They also had a canteen right outside the American base. Someone may ask, what happened to these tunnels during the rainy season? Because basically Vietnam is divided into two seasons: there is a dry season and a rainy season. Now, these tunnels wer
e not flooded during the rainy season because, you see, they were surrounded by clay. They managed, the clay was an impermeable layer that simply did not let water through. Now on the other hand, think how the Americans could have dealt with Vietnam? Apart from the fact that they didn't know how to bomb these places, they also bombed the first or second level of these tunnels. So these tunnels on the third and fourth levels were much safer. How to deal with such an enemy? They let small, gracefu
l, mentally strong people into such tunnels, because you go into the tunnel, where it was really dark and tight, you had to fight it. They called themselves tunnel rats. Namely tunnel rats why? Well, because they were little, they just walked through these tunnels. They had some ropes tied around their ankles , so that if something happened, they could be pulled out of these tunnels and somehow helped, because you saw how spacious it was. It wasn't as simple as it might seem. Every Vietnamese wh
o fought in his area knew these tunnels. He more or less knew which way to go and which way not to go, and yet sometimes during air raids or bombings there came a point where they got lost and couldn't find their way. If a Vietnamese got captured, he couldn't reveal where all the tunnels were, because he only knew his area where he was moving. This sheds some new light on the Vietnam War. What do you think about it? Write in a comment. Thanks for being with us on this day. Arrow. We are now in a
museum of the remains of the war, in fact. Anyway, we've already walked around the museum a bit. Well, there's not much information like that here. There are mainly photos, there is no chronological history described. Mainly , the history of what the Americans did here and what it looked like from the Vietnamese side is shown. Obviously a bit tinted. If someone wants to learn something about the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh has the most such information. There are many places where you can get addi
tional information on this topic. Just like the Cu Chi tunnels, which we were in, the same museum, because in the north of Vietnam there is too much of this information in museums or nothing. In the north there are more French people and here there are more Americans. Well, we know for what reasons. Unfortunately, it was not possible to record inside. There won't be much of this material . All these victims of these bombs, drops of this napalm, agent orange. Well, that's terrible. It didn't look
good. This is a bulldozer in general. I guess they used it to ram through the jungles. This one was dropped from a plane by parachute. Seriously? It was probably pinned here. Look, all these things, the parachute was probably attached to it. So are we leaving? I've seen it done in movies several times. I think we could do it. I played the simulator several times. You pull the shuttle up and fly. Yes, and the engine still up. No, I think I would start. Landing is worse. I think you need to press
a few more buttons there. It's easier here, isn't it? Here were rooms called sunbaths. This means they were exposed to the sun all the time. Now, just like today, it's 35 degrees practically all the time. So stuffy it's shocking. Here they were probably doing somersaults on the tank tracks. No, it was a grill like that, something was probably terribly hot from the sun, because everything was made of metal. Well, you definitely have to take it with a pinch of salt, because it's obvious that it's
heavily embellished here, because the propaganda here is very strong when it comes to it, and most of it is certainly not entirely true. Well, it's still interesting to see what it looks like from this side. Probably the most interesting part of the exhibition that you can see is outside. Right after entering the museum, you can observe tanks and howitzers. You can observe light infantry vehicles and planes. Here, for example, next to me is a bomber, a transport helicopter of a landing unit. As
for the very middle of it, it's actually interesting, but it didn't blow me away. You have a lot of photos there, a lot of photos of victims. They talk a lot about how people suffered during this war, but there is not much information about how this war was fought. I, for one, would expect something like this too. With some objectivity, how these events more or less unfolded. The fact is that only about the Americans and what they did. Well, yes, because it is a museum of war remains. Well, yes
, but I'm missing some information about the war here . Of course, we have to remember this. In my opinion, it should be a must for every American to come here. At least I had expectations that I would find out how this conflict took place, something more interesting. Well, unfortunately I was a bit disappointed. I learned what the victims looked like after napalm, after chemical bombs, after phosphorus bombs, after dissolving some gases and other things. However, how it all worked out is practi
cally unknown. It's definitely worth seeing, there's nothing crazy about it. And what was presented there, I still think it was enough for at least one room or two at most, and thank you very much. Well, yes, because the effects of the war were shown here, and it was also a bit of a warning for the future.
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