CU CHI TUNNELS

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Cu Chi Tunnels consist of more than 200km of underground tunnels. This main axis system has many branches connecting to underground hideouts, shelters, and entrances to other tunnels.         Cu Chi District is known nationwide as the base where the Vietnamese mounted their operations of the Tet Offensive in 1968.The tunnels are between 0.5 to 1m wide, just enough space for a person to walk along by bending or dragging. However, parts of the tunnels have been modified to accommodate visitors. The upper soil layer is between 3 to 4m thick and can support the weight of a 50-ton tank and the damage of light cannons and bombs. The underground network provided sleeping quarters, meeting rooms, hospitals, and other social rooms. Visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels provides a better understanding of the prolonged resistance war of the Vietnamese people and also of the persistent and clever character of the Vietnamese nation. .

CU CHI TUNNEL TOUR TIME OBJECT 08:00  Pick up at hotel, and departs for hotel 09:20  Arrive in Cu Chi Tunnels, general vedio view about Cu Chi Tunnels 09:40  Continued visiting Cu Chi - the underground tunnel system with the length of 250km  Experience the underground tunnels and enjoy the" Khoai Mi"-  specialty of Cu Chi 10:45 Back to Ho Chi Minh City 12:00  Back to Ho Chi Minh city, end of tour program.   Cu Chi Tunnel               Underground                                           Khoai My     For a place thatfs physically invisible, the Cu Chi Tunnels have sure carved themselves a celebrated niche in the history of guerilla warfare. Its celebrated and unseen geography straddles ? all of it underground ? something which the Americans eventually found as much to their embarrassment as to their detriment. They were dug, before the American War, in the late 1940s, as a peasant-army response to a more mobile and ruthless French occupation. The plan was simple: take the resistance briefly to the enemy and then, literally, vanish