Cu Chi Tunnel Historical Site tour will include visiting an American weapons gallery, and later on even a bullet riddled tank. You will be shown a variety of ingenious and rather brutal booby traps used by the VC. And you’ll try to discover secret entrances hidden by fake termite mounds and other creative disguises.
You’ll learn everything from how the kitchens fed up to 10,000 fighters in the tunnels (and how they disguised the smoke), to how they defended the tunnels from American bombs and infiltrators. You’ll even see the huge crater formed by an American B52 bomber.
An of course, you’ll be able to explore the 1-metre high tunnels themselves. These tunnels have been enlarged slightly, but it can still be a pretty claustrophobic experience – imagine living down there for months! Fortunately there are regular that allow you to exit easily if you wish. Original, unchanged tunnels can also be explored, although this is certainly not for the fainthearted!
At the end of the Cu Chi Tunnels tour, there is a firing range that allows you to fire real war-era weapons including the M66 and AK47.
VISIT THE CAO DAI TEMPLE, A UNIQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST AND THE MOST FASCINATING RELIGION
Cao Dai is a combination of Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and a few other religions. Founded in 1926 in 4 km east of Tay Ninh, the Cao Dai Temple, like the religion, is a fusion of world influences. The temple is charming in it’s colorful, mysterious, marvellous architecture.
As well as being a major centre of pilgrimage, the Cao Dai temple is also one of Vietnam’s major tourist attractions.
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This is the newest tour, which will let you visit in one day two most popular places of interest near Ho Chi Minh City: a historical site of Cu Chi Tunnels and a unique Cao Dai Temple that represents the world’s youngest and perhaps the most mysterious religion. The tour guide will meet you at the lobby of your hotel and bring to Tan Cang Pier where you will board a speedboat. Travel comfortably to observe the life on Saigon River and its banks, while enjoying a light breakfast. Visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a small sample of the immense network of tunnels during the US-Vietnam conflict.
Your guide will lead you through the historic Cu Chi Tunnels, dug by resourceful guerrilla fighters to provide communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters during numerous conflicts.
Get on the minivan and head to Tay Ninh Province to visit the famous Cao Dai Holy See Temple, which is a fusion of Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and a few other religions. Learn about the unique religion and the temple organization, and watch the noon mass.
After having a traditional lunch, you will be brought by van back to the hotel.
07:00 – Pick-up at the customers’ hotel and transfer to our pier.
07:15 – Departure to Cu Chi by boat.
08:40 – Arrive in Cu Chi.
09:00 – Begin Cu Chi Tunnels tour.
11:00 – Finish Tunnels, head to Cao Dai Temple by minivan.
12:00 – Visit the Cao Dai Holy See Temple ( Tay Ninh Province)
01:30 – Lunch on the way to HCMC
04:00 – Arrival in Ho Chi Minh City