Cu Chi Tunnels & Ho Chi Minh City Tour – 1 day
1 day
Destination photos are for illustration only.
Morning at the Cu Chi Tunnels, afternoon in central HCMC: Notre-Dame Cathedral, Central Post Office, Jade Emperor Pagoda and Ben Thanh Market.
Highlights
- Explore the countryside with rice fields and natural forest
- The Cu Chi network of tunnels and secret shelters
- Highlights of central HCMC
Detailed itinerary
ITINERARY
- Hotel pick-up at the agreed time
- Visit the Cu Chi Tunnels: an underground network built by Vietnamese soldiers and villagers over about 25 years, with living quarters, kitchens, a hospital, weapon workshops, stores and a command centre
- Watch a film on how the tunnels were built, then about 1 hours exploring them; see booby traps, a tank wreck and B52 bomb craters
- Lunch at a restaurant, back to Saigon around 14:00
- Notre-Dame Cathedral – a Catholic cathedral built by the French in the late 1870s
- Saigon Central Post Office
- Choose between Jade Emperor Pagoda, the War Remnants Museum or Independence Palace (Reunification Palace)
- About 2 hours at Ben Thanh Market and a lacquerware workshop
- Tour ends the same day
Services
Included
- Pick-up and drop-off in central Saigon (Districts 1, 3, 4)
- English-speaking guide
- Bottled water
- Cu Chi Tunnels entrance ticket
- Cassava and tea at the tunnels
- Lunch
Not included
- Tips and personal expenses
- Ammunition at the Cu Chi shooting range (about 600.000 ₫ per 10 rounds)
Private tour with flexible pick-up time. Price quoted by departure date and group size.
