Ho Chi Minh Trail

Ho Chi Minh Trail

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A supply line for the during the Vietnam or Second IndoChina war that allowed the North Vietnam Army to get around the DMZ and to send troops and supplies outside the country with the cooperation of Laos and Cambodia, so that supplies sent by Russia or China could make it to South Vietnam.

Also could be considered the base of attack for on the USA Coalition and the South Vietnam Army.

Strategically it was important because the Americans were by treaty not suppose to go into these countries and the the North Vietnamese would hide inside and could retreat back into Laos or Cambodia for protection whenever they wished.

For more information this page is part of a larger story.
I wrote a whole story about this trail, and my travels in this area in this newsletter
Travel Newsletter  #156 in year 8 of my world travels.

Andy HoboTraveler.com July 27, 2004 as written while in a Hotel in Saigon.