Places where Americans bombs caused landslides onto the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 50 or more local villagers would be out within hours to clear the trail. It's the same commitment, which we see today. Problem with....transport, sticky lock, billing error, great we'll handle it right now, make it right. The American War was a training ground for what we see today as a dynamic, prosperous fast growing country.
We are at the narrowest point in VN, on the now paved Ho Chi Minh Hwy,half way between the ocean and Lao, just beyond those hills.
Yesterdays caves were fine, today we see magnificence, spectacular, vast and expansive. My little iPod touch doesn't do it justice, but here's some of my best attempts.
We climb down 200 teak steps, well lit, sturdy, broad, passing massive drip castles, thousands of years old.
Some looking like wet globs of sand or 20 foot towering monoliths
High in the vault above hints of iron and blue basalt? shale?, deep cracks up into the interior of the limestone karst which birthed these caverns...7 kilometers long!!
More to come.....
-On the road with Kathryn
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