 Destination
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Vietnam Ho Chi Minh
 is the heart of Vietnam, the largest and the most powerful economical town in the country. Located near the delta of the Mekong river.
Ho Chi Minh City is still called Saigon by almost everyone who lives there, the population is more than 6.500.000 people and the rhythms are so fast that make you believe that the capital is still here and not in Hanoi. The center of
Ho chi minh is the right place for the nights of your holidays, the streets here is full of local young people that they are going out with motorbikes and there are flirting around. The orientation here is easier from other places in south east Asia because the Vietnamese language is basic on Latin's, the favourite home base for travellers is the street fang noong lao. Here the best transfer for a conductor tour is the bicycle taxi, someone of the local taxi drivers, that you going to pick up is going to be your guide for the next 5 hours and the price depends proportionally of the bargain, but normally is about 15 dollars, the first place that we visit it was the
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Art Factory
 In this factory they make all kind of portraits and hade make decoration objects, that after all they Put them together to the gallery of the main shop so that the visitors they can buy them. The next place that we stop, it was one of the many Buddhism pagodas that they build in the town of Ho chi minh.
The Buddhism Pagoda
.jpg) Here the faithful is pray for a peaceful life and a good luck, is also a costume that is remind me a lottery, the faithful is pick a paper from the basket and when he open it he knows how many children's he is going to have. Swastika the symbol is coming real from the old world of Ancient Greece and Egypt and it was the symbol of sun and Zeus is mean the creation , later on in Hindu and Buddhism religion is mean good luck and illumination, Hitler is make the symbol to remind to everybody dankness and violence.
H C M City More
 After a quick walk in the town we stop to the square with the Bonsais, and this is the biggest Bonsai I have never see in my life. All of the local taxi drivers they was looking a little afraid when we get close to the river. I ask them why? and they tell me that in this river many people die and sometimes there bodies was float like a Pease of wood, they didn't want to tell me more and I thing I know why.
 The Cao Dai Religion
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next day I decide to live from the center and go 50 miles northern westwards
of Saigon for I study one of the most strange religion of the world. The story of
Cao Dai is starts in 1919 when Ngo Van Chieu one obscure civil server of the France colony that was widely read in both Eastern and Western religion
is resave a message from a superior spirit. The different with other religions is that
Cao Dai was not founded by a man like Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism but rather by God (Dai Dao) himself. That time Chieu was laying on his hammock when a huge eye appeared in front of him. It shined like the sun and was surrounded by a halo the spirit have told him that in the future of his religion he must constraint to the
DAO that means the way, in the middle of 1921 the spirit is return and give a name to him self the name is
Cao Dai hi gate, revealing. The Caodai religion is recognized officially from the France colony in 1926 and is undertake all the religions of Vietnam down from one eternal hire God and its starting with the most popular the Buddhism the Taoism and the Confucianism later with the Christians the Muslims and the Islamism. The way and the believe of
Cao Dai is been follow from many people including and the famous writer Victor Hugo. The basic theory of Cao Dai says that all the religions in this world have the same begin and that all of the human bins they are brothers and sisters down from the same father the superior spirit.
Cu Chi Tunnels
 One more opposition from peace to war I try hard to avoid the renowned
war of Vietnam but it was impossible because I was step on it 40 klm of the center of
Ho chi minh 25 min with a car is the famous but not with the good way
Cu chi tunnels, I come here to meet closer the legend of Gorillas this is a typical custom that Gorillas wear. The Cu chi tunnels starts from Saigon and finish in the borders of Cambodia they have length about 250 klm we continue our tour in to the tunnels that they make them 2 meters hire for the tourist but anyway it was still difficult to walk in, I really don't understand how Gorillas they can live and survive for so long. My trip in Vietnam is make me to love this Country and it was one of the strongest experience in south east Asia.  | 