🏨 Cu Chi Tunnel - Cao Dai Temple Private Tour 1 Day From Ho Chi Minh City Activity

Cu Chi Tunnel - Cao Dai Temple Private Tour 1 Day From Ho Chi Minh City

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From $108.00

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 8 hours

Departs: Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

• Explore the Cu Chi tunnels by minivan
• Learn the in-dept history of the war from Vietnamese sights
• Sightseeing villages, rubber plantations and rice paddies by local transport
• Experience what it was like living inside the tunnel system
• Discover underground world of guerrilla warfare in the incredible Cu Chi tunnels
• Gain insight into the tenacity and resourcefulness of the Vietcong
• Go on a jungle walk in the tunnel area
• Crawl inside the tunnels
• Try cassava root that sustained Viet Cong fighters for years
• Chance to shoot the AK47, M16, M30, M60, Garand M1, Carbine (at your own expenses)
• Cao Dai Temple - Multi Religion in Tay Ninh province

What's Included

Air-conditioned vehicle

Bottled water

English speaking guide

Lunch

Travel insurance: $5000 USD/ case

Under 5 years old or below 100cm tall: free of charge

What's Not Included

From 5 to 11 years old or from 100cm to below 140cm tall: 75% of adult

Tips/ gratuities, personal expenses

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 4
CHILD: Age: 5 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 75

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Specialized infant seats are available

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Cu Chi Tunnels

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 Ho Chi Minh city 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 takes 2 hours west towards the Cambodian border. Ongoing way to the Cu Chi tunnels, we can see 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 are 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 has 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 will 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 cuisine that local fighters would have survived on, and have an opportunity to venture into the tunnels and explore the complex.

4 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Cao Dai Temple

After finish the visiting in Cu Chi Tunnel, we will continue to go to Tay Ninh for another 1.5 hours to visite Cao Dai Temple.

Lunch will be served after that.

You will end this historical Ho Chi Minh City tour with a greater understanding of the local impacts of the conflicts of the 20th century.

4 hours • Admission Ticket Included

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