Cao Dai - a uniquely Vietnamese religion that around 10% of the population adheres to, and that includes Sun Yat-Sen and Victor Hugo as two of its patron saints. The half hour service that i attended involved the worshippers sitting as pictured and bowing periodically as a chorus sang and music played. I enjoyed it and found the service soothing. My batteries ran out after I shot a video, but the link above has some cool pics.
The Cu Chi tunnels would not have been a good place for me to hide out. The fella above is wriggling his way in through a preserved original entrance to the tunnel. It would have been covered and hidden with shrubbery, unseen by the unknowing eye.

Frazzled after a mere 30 meters in the tunnel. The sides and ceiling have each been expanded 20 cm so that tourists can check them out, but i still struggled. The tunnels varied in size from those in which the Vietnamese could hunch in, frog walk through, or slither in like a snake. This was supposed to be an expanded frog walker, but I was forced to hands and knees.
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