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CU CHI TUNNEL HALF DAY TOUR WITH LUNCH ,Private Tour

Depart : 7.30 am , finish : 1.00 pm .

Included :Travel Insurance , Professional English speaking guide , Private

AC Car , Entrance Fee , Lunch , Cold Drink , Wet Tissue .

Excluded : Tip and Personal Expense .

ITINERARY :

* Our professional English speaking guide and driver will pick you up at

your hotel , then go straight to Cu Chi Tunnel .

* Cu Chi Tunnel system is located in Cu Chi District , approximately 65 km

away from Ho Chi Minh City . It takes more than one and half an hour to

reach there .

Tourist took picture in front of the fighting bunker of Cu Chi tunnel system .

* On arrival , tourist will spend around 20 minutes to watch a short documentary film about history of Cu Chi Tunnel system ,after that , your guide will spend more than one hour to explore more about history of Cu Chi tunnel system .

* Our professional guide will explain to you more about history of this famous man made tunnel system .

* Tourist has a chance to go inside of this famous man made tunnel system in

order to explore more about the architect style of this tunnel system from

inside .

* And especially , tourist has a chance to enjoy shooting gun with different

types , such as : AK 47 , M 1 , M 60 , M 30 , M 16 , Carbine ..

*ABOUT CU CHI TUNNEL SYSTEM :

* The first tunnel system was built in the year 1948 during French Army and

their allies occupied Viet Nam and Indochina ( Viet Nam , Laos and Combodia

Tourist started to go inside of Cu Chi Tunnel System

) . However ,

the first tunnel system was mainly used for hiding from enemy only .

* And the main tunnel system was officially built from 1961-1967 , the whole

tunnel system took nearly 20 years to build ( by hand ) by local Vietnamese

as well as Our soldiers during American War in Viet Nam . So that ,

this time , not only Vietnamese people and soldiers used it for hiding from enemy but

also for fighting against them .

* The whole tunnel system got more than 200 km in length with three

different layers .

* The first layer is over 4 m in depth , second layer is over 8 m in depth

Tourist was inside of Cu Chi Tunnel System

and the third layer is over 12 m in depth . Especially , each layer got

some different bunkers with different functions , such as :

Living Bunker , Shelter Bunker ,Fighting Bunker , Kitchen , Commanding

Room , Meeting Room ,

Hospital , School , Water Well ,Rest Room ,Trap so on ...

** Cu Chi Tunnel System is One of the most famous and complicated man made

tunnel system in the world .

** During US Army and their allies occupied Viet Nam ( 1961-1973 ) ,they ever used a lots of different operations in order to destroy this tunnel system .

* The first operation that they officially used since the year 1966 , they called TRAP , during this operation , they ever used water pine to pump water into this tunnel system in order to make tunnel flood .

* The second operation that they called * Tunnel Rat * , US Army tried to select some small soldiers included their allies from South Korea , Philippine , Thai Lan , Army from The South Vietnamese government ( Republic of Viet Nam ) , they were supplied iron lancer , sub machine gun , anti-toxic mask , and they were separated into smaller group , each small group got four members , both of them slide down this tunnel system , and they used trip-wire to tie of with the bomb and lay at the intersection of this tunnel system , then they destroyed this tunnel system from outside of the tunnel .

Tourist just came out of Cu Chi Tunnel System

* The next operation is that they ever used a lots of bulldozer to destroy this tunnel system and sprayed a lots of chemical weapons there , such as :

agent orange , defoliant , napalm bombs , dioxin so on... and then they used loud speaker to call for surrender .

* The next operation is that they ever used a special type of grass that they already absorbed into chemical liquid before they started to plant them , and especially , after they planted them for a few weeks , these grass plant could grow up very quickly , over 2-3 m high, and especially, they got very sharp leaves , so that , whenever , if anyone walk by , their skin will get hurt because of these grass .

* And they used more and more operation to destroy this tunnel system , and finally , they still lost in this battle .

* The Victory of Cu Chi Tunnel System is not only One of the great victory

of Vietnamese in history of Viet Nam War but also One of the great victory

of man kind in a big battle to fight against One of the most strongest and

power empire army in the world .

* It's also proved that , even Viet Nam is a small and poor country , small

people , poor technology and poor weapons as well .

Tourist took picture with US Army M 41 Tank that was destroyed by land mine in the year 1970 .

* But , if We know How to use Our strength , our power as well as united all

together to protect Our freedom and Independence of Our country , that We

could defeat any strong and powerful army empire army in the world , even

US Army

.

* After visiting Cu Chi Tunnel System , on the way back to your hotel , your

guide and driver will stop by at a local Restaurant to have Lunch with * PHO * rice noodle soup with beef or chicken , and have a cold local beer . ( if tourist is interested in War Remnant Museum , you can ask your guide or

driver to drop you there when tourist arrive in Ho Chi Minh City , and

tourist can visit yourself ) .

* Otherwise , your guide and driver can take you back your hotel in Ho Chi

Minh City .

End of your tour !! .

* Noted : This tour is One of the most popular daily tour in Ho Chi Minh

City nowadays .

* This Tour is also one of the best choice for tourist to get to know more about American War in Viet Nam .