The Backwaters of Ben Tre (720p) HD

«We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it,» a U.S. Army major reportedly told a reporter during the VIetnam War's Tet Offensive. Today, Ben Tre is a city of 200,000 people. Yet its backwater canals still harken back to the days of dirt roads, rice paddies and buffaloes. It's not hard to imagine, rowing in a 5-person low boat, what it must have been like for soldiers patrolling for Viet Cong. It's eerily still and the local population even lives back from the water's edge. Take a nearly 5-minute look at the Backwaters of Ben Tre with me.