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Vietnam using the war as a strange tourist draw

The Vietcong are as distant a memory as the ‘Grunts’ of the US forces who fought them during the Vietnam War – except in the pitches of the country’s bizarre tourist trade....

The Cu Chi Tunnel complex is one of Asia's stranger holiday fantasies, with its firing range of Vietnam War weaponry, displays of booby-trap bamboo spikes, tunnels to crawl through and dioramas of waxwork GIs setting fire to villages.

It amounts to a Vietnam War theme park on the site of one of the war's most heroic battles.

Even the smiling waitresses wear black Viet Cong-style pyjamas as they try to sell you bottles of rice wine containing a dead cobra, a suitably macho tipple for visitors who have unleashed their inner warriors with a rented AK-47.
Read entire article at Herald (Australia)