Dien Bien Phu and the war museum

 

After a splendid breakfast at our local ice cream parlour (there is a common theme here) where Terry managed croisant, roll, cheese and M&Ms, again we embarked on the battle museum.  It is fair to say that the scale of the enterprise is just too huge to comprehend.  For me, it was the montage of ladies breaking rock from sheer cliffs with sledgehammers and iron bars, to more ladies smashing the rocks to small stones to then even more workers laying the roads for vehicles to draw the artillery over.  I guess that around 100 people managed to build less than 100m or road.

Also withing a few km of the museum is the command bunker and the bridge used to assault it.  Lots to see and reflect on.

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