Cu Chi Tunnels Half-Day Tour

This worth money trip appears to be very popular with backpackers and independent tourists.

This is our opportunity to meet and share our local stories to you.

This well organized, fascinating and fun day tour exploring Vietnamese and Ho Chi Minh City history – traditional - and culture.

Interesting sites presented regarding the war and learning about what the Vietnamese had to go through to survive during those times where you learn the story about Vietnam War. 

Notes:

FOC for children under 5 years

From 5 to 11 years old is considered as kids/childs

From 11 years old up is considered as adults

8:00 am, Hotel pick up

Upon arrival at tunnel, a full video showing what happened in this area during the war, showing actual footage.

Then, take a walk through the sites; the area preserves the tunnels that were used by soldiers - which to understand The Viet Cong - to resist bombing, Army troops and tanks.

Exploring 200 km long Cu Chi Tunnels, your chance to get through this narrow tunnels.

The tunnels are zigzag, served as a link between different villages. Fighters built this amazing network of tunnels with cooling system that bring fresh air into the depths of the tunnels via long bamboo poles that led to the surface.

This amazing underground defending system includes: bedroom, office, hospital and especially Hoang Cam kitchen - a famous systems with minimize smoke escaping to the surface from cooking underground so that the American soldiers would not detect their locations.

Cu Chi War Site displays weapons, mockups of traps, the trap doors which fully cover by leaves. It is an interesting site to learn how they made weapons out of natural materials like bamboo, and how they took unexploded bombs to create weapons of their own.

Try shooting the AK47 at Cu Chi Shooting range for an extra cost.

Tasting tapioca - the food consumed by Vietnamese guerrilla during the war and see rice paper making demonstration.

12:30 pm, Back to Saigon and tour ends.

For private tour, have lunch at a local restaurant and back to your hotel.