When visiting Vietnam, venture beyond Ho Chi Minh City and the Buddhist pagodas to discover an example of human creativity and tenacity buried beneath the foliage. The Cu Chi Tunnels, located near Ho ...
I had the opportunity to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, which are just outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tunnel network was started in the late 1940s and used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
This is part of a series of articles by Westporter Robert Stokes based on his recent return to Vietnam for the first time since he covered the war from 1966 to l968 as a freelance journalist and later ...
The Tunnels of Cu Chi, by Tom Mangold and John Penycate (Berkley, $3.95). Reports about the fighting in Vietnam repeatedly told of the Viet Cong`s uncanny disppearing act. They would come out to do ...
A massive tunnel system running from Gaza to the Egyptian border has long served Palestinians as a supply line for everything from livestock and construction materials to stocks of medicine and ...
CU CHI, Vietnam — Camera-toting foreigners and young tour guides now occupy the dark tunnels of this old Viet Cong stronghold where “hero American-killers” once planned ambushes and hunkered down ...
An hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, a vast network of tunnels are hidden 20 feet below the ground. They're called the Cu Chi Tunnels, and tourists travel from around the world to crawl ...
In the words of Mark Twain “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” I was surprised with myself that I could not smell it. I recently returned from a trip ...