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clothes for indochina trip
Just wondering what people wear in the evening on the Indochina trip. Am wondering if most change for dinner or not. I know it will be very hot and humid!!
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Twenty people on the tour, ten couples. Clothing has been very casual so far. At the Welcome dinner there was one man in a jacket, the rest were very very causal, several people in jeans and T-shirt’s and one woman in ripped knee jeans. I was the only woman in a dress, another had a skirt, the rest were in pants. Most have changed for dinner so far, mainly because you get so darned hot and sweaty, but most just into very casual clothes. Will post a review after the tour. So far it is wonderful, we have already fallen in love with Vietnam.
Ahh, the Cu Chi Tunnels..fascinating if you have done any reading about the Viet Cong tunnel system . And, yes, they are unbelievably claustrophobic! You can get a small taste of what is is like by going through a shorter wider portion which isn’t claustrophobic. However, 5 of us opted to go through the deeper, narrower and much longer section. Even doing that, led by a guide, there is a bail-out point half way through. You know it is a challenge when they ask if you have a heart condition prior to entering. Anyway, I am tall, and after the midway point I was literally duck-walking with my head touching the top and my shoulders touching the sides! Did I mention the bats? At a critical section at the top of a small hill, a bat hit the lady in front of me ( #3 in line) in the face, and she lost her balance sliding down the hill and getting wedged around the curve at the bottom! Much to her credit, she managed to extricate herself and continue. She had a water bottle in her back pocket that broke leaving a muddy mess on the dirt path for us to get through while keeping our balance going down the hill! Of course, she looked like she had been in a mud fight by the time we got out! What a trooper! The air was dank, there was low lighting, we were all in a major sweat from the heat! Would I do it again? Oh, probably! Then there was the fact that 4 out of the 5 of us got some varying degree of sickness in the next 24 hours...coincidence? Maybe...maybe not! What an adventure!
When we were in Siem Reap, our TD made it clear that the children selling things were truly in need, and much of the aid going to Cambodia really does not reach those truly in need....but those children had ear to ear smiles...
Thanks for the Cu Chi information. Any special purchases to recommend?
We're going on the 14 March trip - anyone else going