Cu Chi Tunnels

We headed out early for a half day tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels as we are headed to Cambodia this afternoon. Instead of taking a tour bus, our tour took us on the local river system via speed boat (kind of) to the tunnels. Although more expensive than the bus tours it was a unique experience, which also allowed us to arrive at the tunnels before the …

We were eager to go on the tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels which is a real landmark of Vietnam: the story of how the underprivileged locals kicked the arrogant invader's ass. Spoken like this it sounds like a bad cliché but when you’re actually there, its cruel history truly weighs on you.

They might have been humble peasants but they …

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Cu Chi Tunnel is one of the highlights of my travel in Ho Chi Minh City. I am a nature lover and prefers getaway in beach,island hopping, resorts, mountain treks but not much into historical sites. But that suddenly changed when I visited this famous and must see …

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Started by visiting Cu Chi tunnels from HCMC - where thousands of Viet Cong hid and planned their operations during the war. They are very long and narrow but some have been widened for tourists. Rick went down one with a very small entrance. I only went through one …

Hi All, (Jamie again...) (posted 26th July)

Had a very enlightening and educational day today.

Got up for our half day (8am-3pm) tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels, loaded onto a bus with a tour group called DELTA ADVENTURE TOURS - So glad that we did. The tour was led by a Vietnam Vet (a Vietnamese ex US Navy Marine), Mr Binh, who …

Arrived in Saigon the day before yesterday. We had no tour yesterday so we wandered around for a while. Today we had a tour of the Cu Chi tunnels, where the Viet Cong lived and were able to escape from the US forces. Ingenious and interesting. We stopped for lunch nearby at a very humble place and had a delicious home/made VN meal. The woman who …

We got up early to catch a bus to the cu chi tunnels, 2 hours out of ho chi minh. After watching a short doco and learning how to say "move faster" in vietnamese (didi mau!) , we were shown some of the booby traps and entrances to the tunnels used by the vietcong. There was no way that i would fit into some of the entrances! Later we went through …

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Nothing, not even the Top Gear special, can prepare you for the experience of travelling in the utter chaos that is the traffic in Vietnam. You basically have to ignore the motorbikes and walk like an ignorant student jaywalker in order to cross the road. The bikes just swarm around you and will toot if they want you to stop. Zebra and pedestrian …

... shoot a rocket launcher at a cow.  Sound apocryphal?  Not if you've been to Cambodia. So I didn't enjoy the Cu Chi tunnels visit.  It was fascinating that our tour guide was a former Saigonese soldier.  So he takes tours to a site ...

... to the tunnels asking every conceivable question about Vietnam, so at least I know now what the number 1 export of Vietnam is. So anyway, the Cu Chi Tunnels are much smaller than the Vinh Moc Tunnels up near Hue (see previous entry here) even after ...

... Norris movies. We lunched at the Rex hotel which is famous for have being the meeting point for all the war correspondents during the Vietnam war. Otherwise that's about all for Saigon. Next Pod - Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam. Love, Nath and ...

... trip to the Mekong River Delta on the Wednesday, and we decided to join her. Rich and Deanna booked a trip out to the Cu Chi tunnels for that very afternoon (which the group were going to visit on the Wednesday); however, I decided to do the planned ...

... , including buddist, catholic, hindu and muslim. we wandered around, and watched part of a serman, see pics. next we visited Cu Chi tunnels, which is an area that, although only 30km from saigon, was controlled by the viet kong, and used a tunnel ...

... to find the attackers and retaliate were frustrating and costly. With time it was discovered that this entire area of Vietnam were riddled with secret tunnels from which the Vietcong waged war. Tunnels were said to stretch all the way to the Cambodian ...

... help) the trip to Vinh Long and Sam Mountain in Chau Duc is postponed until next week.  We went to the village of Cu Chi, where the underground tunnel network is located. The usage of the tunnel for guerilla warfare can be traced back to 1934. ...

... and even some agent orange babies in jars... Saw the bizarrely beautiful Cao Dai religious ceremony and the claustrophobic Viet Cong war tunnels at Cu Chi--and yes, fired an M16 and an AK-47 (10 shots and only hit dirt, what a pathetic soldier I'd ...

This morning we jumped on our bus to visit the Ben Dinh versiuon of the Cu Chi tunnels. This place was amazing. The way they created the tunnels and how they lived down there was something out of this world. We got the opportunity to go through about ...

... it so that we could meet up with one of her tours at the Cao Dai temple, and we'd get to see the restored Cu Chi tunnels on the way back as well. These were a sort of restored outdoor museum of the tunnels used by the Vietnamese during the American ...