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Heading into the Cu Chi tunnels orientation room - a former shelter used by locals during the war
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Our tunnel guide on the right - a veteran Viet Cong who helped dig and fought in the tunnels from age 13
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Cu Chi Tunnel area map. The trails covered hundreds of miles; Saigon is in the lower right corner of the map
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Of course Mark has to try it out (turns out he's a bit bigger than the average Vietnamese)
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And shortly after that he disappears completely, putting at question Newtonian laws of physics
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Mark at one of the tourist entrances to the tunnels, the tops of which are about knee high
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The tunnels are tight and very narrow in places - this lets smaller Vietnamese through, but not bigger westerners
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Viet shows us a fake termite mound that was used to hide ventilation shafts. Pepper was sprinkled around the base to confuse tracking dogs
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Another drawing of an American soldier falling into one of the traps - there were more than a dozen such paintings
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American bomb shells (background) were melted down and forged into the spikes used in the traps
