Hotel Pickup
Leave your hotel's name on the public notes for our guides to pick you up at a centrally located hotel in Ho Chi Minh City ( Private tour only )
Ho Chi Minh Cu Chi Experience
TOUR DESCRIPTION

Good Morning Vietnam! Start the day the right way - with an up close and personal history lesson on guerilla warfare. Climb into the underground tunnel system that played a crucial part in the war and imagine what it would have been like to eat, sleep, work, cook... even go to school underground as a conflict raged above.

Highlights


  • Delve into an underground world of guerrilla warfare in the incredible Cu Chi tunnels

  • Gain insight into the tenacity and resourcefulness of the Vietnamese

  • Visit the former Viet Minh underground stronghold at Cu Chi

Local English-speaking guide
Return transportation
Entrance fees: Cu Chi ticket
Local sandwich
Drop off centrally located hotels in Ho Chi Minh City
Tips/gratuities for drivers or guides
Important Information
What is included in the tour

Local English-speaking guide, return transportation, entrance fees: Cu Chi Ticket, local family visit, drop off centrally located hotels in Ho Chi Minh City

What isn't included in the tour

Tips/gratuities for drivers or guides

Where do we meet?

For the small group tour, the pick-up is at the front entrance of the Central Post Office - 2 Cong Xa Paris St, District 1 (next to Notre Dame Cathedral). For the private tour, we will pick you up at a centrally located hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

Where does the tour end?

Drop off centrally located hotels in Ho Chi Minh City

What is the duration of the tour?

5-6 hours

What is the group size for this tour?

For shared tours, the maximum group number will be 12 passengers. For private tours, there must be a minimum of 2 passengers. A solo traveller may still book a private experience, but they will be charged a base rate for two travellers.

Are there any Covid-19 vaccination requirements?

While we strongly recommend that all travellers are vaccinated against COVID-19 to reduce the risk of transmission and avoid putting undue strain on healthcare services, vaccinations are not a requirement to join an Urban Adventures tour. For further information, please review COVID-19 Health & Safety at https://www.urbanadventures.com/en/about-us/covid-19-customer-info

Can I cancel my tour?

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before activity.

What if I can't find my guide?

If you have any issues on the day of your tour, please call +84 90 990 41 00

HIGHLIGHTS
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Local Impact: How you will help the local community by joining this tour:

  • By visiting and paying an entrance fee to Cu Chi tunnels, this tour helps preserve the local historical heritage.
  • Built by local fighters during the Indochina conflict, the Cu Chi tunnels served as a base from which the Viet Cong could operate from close to the Southern Vietnamese capital. For this HCMC tour, leave the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City to explore one of the relics from one of the most significant local historical events in recent memory. Journey 2.5 hours west towards the Cambodian border. Before arriving at the Cu Chi tunnels, we'll visit with some local friends and gain an insight into local life in the area, both past and present. Learn about their lives, culture, and customs and get an insight into the recent past through local eyes. Continue on to the Cu Chi tunnels. The location of the tunnels was of significant strategic importance: they're at the end of the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail, and within striking distance of the southern Vietnam capital. Initial construction started in 1948 when the Viet Minh required somewhere to hide from French air attacks, and by 1965, the tunnel complex was estimated to consist of 200 km of tunnels. It included, hospitals, schools, meeting rooms, kitchens, and sleeping quarters. Life was difficult for the inhabitants, and to protect against outside intruders, booby traps were laid throughout the complex. Today, the Vietnamese government have preserved approximately 75 km of the Cu Chi tunnels as a memorial park, and in some areas the tunnels have been widened and low powered lights installed so that tourists can now fit through the complex. Your local guide will take you on a fascinating tour of the Cu Chi tunnels, where you'll learn more about the conditions the people lived in, the hardships they faced, and the amazing ingenuity employed to maintain life in the tunnels. We walk past huge bomb craters - evidence of the heavy bombing campaigns in the region during the Indochina conflict, discover hidden entrances right beneath your feet, wander past tiny little chimneys in the ground that dispersed smoke from the underground kitchens, sample some of the simple cuisines that local fighters would have survived on, and have an opportunity to venture into the tunnels and explore the complex. You'll end this historical Ho Chi Minh City tour with a greater understanding of the local impacts of the conflicts of the 20th century.

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