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- 境外遊
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experience the life of a Vietnamese soldier 🧑🏭
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We booked a guided half day tour with the local operator Tnktravel.
Will definitely recommend booking a guided tour because you will be lost without explanations and travelling to Cu Chi Tunnel itself takes around 2 hours.
Given the name Cu Chi Tunnel, the main attraction is most definitely the tunnel. There are tunnels of different lengths for tourists to attempt, from 5 metre to 100 metre. I am personally not that big, and not generally claustrophobic, so I managed to go through the tunnel with no issues. But so be warned, if you are bigger and have joint issues, you might have difficult going through the tunnel because you have to be a constant squatting position!!
Thanks to our guide Patrick, as well as the interactive element of the Cu Chi Tunnel (walking through the tunnel, visiting the different bunkers and looking at the different traps Vietnamese soldiers used to set targeting the American soldiers), we learned so much about the history of the Vietnam war from the Vietnamese perspective and the intelligence and hard work of Vietnamese soldiers.
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it was an amazing trip. it was informative also. my friend and I learned a lot about the history of Vietnam. really recommend to those who want to visit Vietnam. refreshment also included..
Cu Chi Tunnels are located around ~ 1.5 h from the center of HCM. We did the tour on the same day with the Mekong River Delta and was a very nice combination. Try the shooting and go inside the tunnel, an amazing experience.
Really informative guide (his name was Cung). Watch out for his surprise quiz. Luckily we managed to escape without any mosquito bites. I am 5ft 4 so thought that I would have to crawl using my hands and knees but I was able to go through the tunnels by squatting down.
I learnt a lot about the tunnels and their use, I had a very knowledgeable guide doing my tour who kept the whole thing very engaging and interesting.
We came here with Vietnam Adventure Tour and our tour guide Uncle Cung was both funny and informative. We saw many different traps and the activities the Vietnamese did in the tunnels. When going into the tunnels we had a choice of going 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 or 140 meters. There was also a souvenir shop but it was quite expensive (can get the same things much cheaper in Ho Chi Minh City). There was a bigger tunnel entrance but I didn't have a picture.