Trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

In February I went to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, also known as Saigon, for and Understanding by Design conference given by Jay McTyghe and hosted by Saigon South International School.  Fellow 5th grade teacher Dan D. and I created a new Fantasy unit at the conference.  Pictures that follow include street scenes in Ho Chi Minh City, including the backpackers hotel region where we stayed for $11.00 bucks American a night, street vendors, some of the 3 million motor bikes in the city, a rehabilitation center for physically impaired local that sold fine arts, pictures from the war remembrance museum, and shots from the Cu Chi tunnel area 45 minutes outside of Saigon.  Nothing like being in a pitch black tunnel, no lights, no chance to turn around, and B-52's carpet bombing ten feet above you.  OK, so the B-52's were either a singing group or were in my history books.  Pretty amazing stories of survival and sacrifice abound in this region.  The tunnel pictures shown were from the more touristic places to visit.  We went into a couple of tunnels that were much smaller, and totally dark.