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Tour name: Cu Chi Tunnels
Tour code: HLT 01
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:
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English/French speaking tour guide
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Entrance fee
- Lunch
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Transportation (A/C van)
Exclusions:
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Personal travel insurance
- Tips
and gratuities
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Everything not mentioned in the program
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