I´m posting this here even if I´m not looking for a hunt. During the last couple of years I´ve read up on the Vietnam war and I´d like to see some of the places I´ve read about. There are trips -tours- of Nam but I´d rather do it myself or with a private tour guide. If anyone out there has experience in travelling Nam-Cambodja-Laos please give me some pointers!

Cewe,

I was there last summer. PM me and I'll fill you in.

Brett

I was there recently but I spent all me time in Saigon, whoops, make that Ho Chi Minh City. Found it to be well organized and the people were helpful. From my limited experience I wouldn't expect any major problems.

I was there for 3 tours ---- don't ever want to go back.

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Originally posted by DB Bill:
I was there for 3 tours ---- don't ever want to go back.

Makes sense to me, Bill!

I can understand not wanting to go back if you fought there.

I just read Hal Moores "We were soldiers and young" and it gave (I think) a pretty good picture of what it could be like.

I was 12 when the war was on -two of my sisters friends died in Nam and her fiancé came back "changed".

I left there in August, 1970. There are alot of great places in this world I would like to see and go to. Hopefully I will be able to go to many of them. Viet Nam is not on my list.

A good buddy of mine 'hunted' over there for 3.5 tours. Mostly the prey were on 2 legs, but not always. On long snoop and poop trips deep in, he and his team sometimes lived off the land, as it were. On at least one occasion he related to me, they were forced to eat some kind of monkey for sustenance. If I remember the story right, the situation was such that properly cooking the primates was not an option. As a result, he got to play host to some pretty serious parasitical guests. On another occasion, while filling a canteen, he found himself staring at a feline paw print in the mud just filling with water next to him. The paw print was bigger than his hand. Tiger stripes, indeed!

Like others here who have BTDT, he has no interest in ever going back to what he calls the 'Land of All Bad Things'. Can't blame him. I'd like to hear about any leads, however. I have family (in-laws) that have been to recreate, and had a great time. Relatively cheap over there, too.

All vets from all wars have my sympathy -you Nam vets had a tough job and you came back to some very "cold" times.

Reading about the war, and being a kid when the war was on, has just got me interested in the place.

I need some visuals to fill in my mental pictures.

cewe, I like most Vets don't want to go back, although I do feel the pull some times.

I always thought it would make a great hunting ground, Batang, wild water buff, barking deer and a few others, the country is trully beautifull , and the people where for the most part warm and friendly

68-72 LRRP

Well Boys and girls I only left blood there and I don't want it back !