1 day

About this activity

Pick-up will commence from your Ho Chi Minh City hotel in the early morning, and you’ll travel with your English-speaking guide to the Cu Chi tunnels. The drive is around 60 km. At Cu Chi you’ll be shown a documentary film about the tunnels and learn how the locals made bamboo traps, rice-paper and rice-wine. You’ll then have the opportunity to explore the web of underground tunnels dug by Vietnamese resistance fighters.

After exploring the tunnels, drive to My Tho. This is one of the provinces that comprise the Mekong Delta area. Cruise by boat along the upper Mekong through a region with islands named after 4 animals that appear in Buddhist writings – Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Turtle. On this part of the tour you’ll observe some of the activities of regional Vietnamese daily life and appreciate how life here depends on the River.

Afterwards your will take a trip by row boat along the small waterways. You’ll see the agricultural richness of the delta region in it's fruit orchards, coconut groves and bee-keeping farms. Stop to enjoy honey tea, seasonal fruit, fresh coconut candy and southern Vietnamese folk music. At the end of our tour, drive back to Ho Chi Minh City for a drop off at your hotel around 18:00.

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Included

All taxes, fees and handling charges
Bottled water
Lunch
Hotel pick-up and drop off (HCMC District 1 only)
Professional guide
Transport by air-conditioned van/bus
Entry/Admission - Cu Chi Tunnels

Not included

Drinks
Fees for pickup outside of HCMC District 1

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not wheelchair accessible
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel

Features

Tourism

95%

Cultural

70%

Reviews

4.4

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Divya Shashidha M

1 | 2018-04-03

This was truly money wasted! Our guide was a lovely and pleasant professional no doubt, but the language and communication was terrible! The guide was barely able to speak fluent English and for every question we asked/ request we made, the answer was Yyyyeessss! We paid premium amount for a private tour such as this also considering that we were stuck with the guide for the whole 10-11 hours and it was a thorough disappointment! Especially when we overheard some of the other guides explaining the history of the site and related stories, we were very very annoyed with the service provided by the local service provider - Halong Hanoi Transfer! The number they provided on their booking voucher was not reachable either. Basically, the Cu Chi tunnels site was just a walk thru with stops at photographic points and random snippets thrown in every now and then. The lunch was the worst experience of the whole day since we were taken to a random homestay option for lunch and the 10-12 minute walk through to here from the main road was packed with stray rabid looking dogs barking continuously at us! HORRIFYING! We were 2 vegetarian travelers in the group and the food was really below average and not even hot. It was a whole day 11 hour tour and hence even more upsetting that the food options were terrible also considering that there was no dearth of decent restaurants in the location. The positives were that the car was comfortable considering we spent close to 60 of the time in it on the tour and the guide and driver were both pleasant. However, having a more experienced and fluent English speaking guide would have made this so much a better experience!

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robert k

4 | 2018-02-15

Worthwhile. The tunnels are fascinating

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Jeffrey H

5 | 2018-01-25

It was an amazing experience. They were very flexible and helpful due to our schedule change. It was great! Thank you so much!

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powellcf

4 | 2018-01-15

Great day out. Did lots of things in one day. Well worth the long day