Day trip: Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels

Itinerary
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Stop At: Ben Thanh Market, Le Loi, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

After breakfast, we will tour around the key sites of Saigon, including the War Remnants Museum, Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, the City Post Office, and Ben Thanh market.

In the afternoon, head out of Saigon to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a vast underground defense system of more than 200km during wartime. The network included trap doors, living areas, storage, hospitals, command centers, kitchens…and could house up to 10,000 people. Nowadays, just some parts of the tunnels are available for visiting but still can give visitors an insight into the Vietnam War. You can also join a trial shooting session with AK47 or M30 (separated fees).Transfer back to your hotel in the later afternoon and end of our services.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: War Remnants Museum, 28 Vo Van Tan Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

You will comeThe War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City first opened to the public in 1975. Once known as the ‘Museum of American War Crimes’, it's a shocking reminder of the long and brutal Vietnam War. Graphic photographs and American military equipment are on display. There's a helicopter with rocket launchers, a tank, a fighter plane, a single-seater attack aircraft. You can also see a conventional bomb that weighs at 6,800kg. American troops had used these weapons against the Vietnamese between 1945 and 1975.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Notre Dame Square, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, built in the late 1880s by French colonists, is one of the few remaining strongholds of Catholicism in the largely Buddhist Vietnam. Located in Paris Square, the name Notre Dame was given after the installation of the statue ‘Peaceful Notre Dame’ in 1959.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Cu Chi Tunnels, Ho Chi Minh City 700000 Vietnam

Head out of Saigon to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a vast underground defense system of more than 200km during wartime. The network included trap doors, living areas, storage, hospitals, command centers, kitchens…and could house up to 10,000 people. Nowadays, just some parts of the tunnels are available for visiting but still can give visitors an insight into the Vietnam War. You can also join a trial shooting session with AK47 or M30 (separated fees).Transfer back to your hotel in the later afternoon and end of our services.

Duration: 3 hours