"The DMZ" Ristohannah's photos about Khe Sanh, Vietnam

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Khe Sanh, Vietnam by TravelPod blogger Ristohannah titled "The DMZ" Ristohannah's travel blog entry: "Like most visitors to Hue, we decided to book ourselves on a tour of the DMZ (that's DMZee in American), about 130km north of Hue. It was a 6am start from the hostel. The bus took a couple of hours to get to Dong Ha town, slap bang in the centre of Vietnam. When Vietnam was split into North and South during the war Dong Ha was the northernmost town in Southern Vietnam, and a strategically important US base. It was completely destroyed and today is just a fairly bland-looking roadside town with a big market. We stopped there briefly to pick up our tour guide then continued along Highway 9 towards the old Khe Sanh US marine base. On the way the guide pointed out various DMZ-related landmarks: The Rockpile: literally a very big craggy karst rock which used to have a flat top, was only accessible by helicopter, and was an important strategic lookout post/ artillery base for the US during the war. The Americans could see over the whole area from the top of the Rockpile, which made it a bit tricky for the Vietcong to get weapons etc to Khe Sanh without being noticed. They got round it however by using the many cemeteries in the area as a guise - they burned incense at tombs whilst hiding weapons in them and staged mock funerals, using the coffins to transport supplies. Clever. Dakrong Bridge & Ho Chi Minh Trail: about 16km ...



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