Tour code: SGD 03

Duration: full day- 5 hours

Tour starts from: Saigon (Ho CHi Minh City)

Tour ends in: Saigon

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Itinerary

Drive to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels. At the height of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon  all the way to the Cambodian border of over 250 kilometers of tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the 1940s,  let the Viet Minh  and, later, the Viet Cong, control a huge rural area.  It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers.  In places, it was several  stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years.... getting married, giving birth, going to school. The ground here is hard clay, which made this whole thing possible.  But even so, the planning and construction was incredible.  People dug all this with hand tools, filling reed baskets and dumping the dirt into bomb craters.  They installed large vents so they could hear approaching helicopters, smaller vents for air and baffled vents to dissipate cooking smoke.  There were also hidden  trap doors and gruesomely effective bamboo-stake booby traps. Today, the trees and bushes have grown back.  And since 1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for visitors.  

Price in USD: $65/per person ( min 02 persons)

                       : $55/per person (for group of 04 persons)

Inclusions:

• English/French speaking tour guide
• Entrance fee
• Lunch
• Transportation (A/C van)

Exclusions:

•  Personal travel insurance
•  Tips and gratuities
•  Everything not mentioned in the program

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