Cu Chi Tunnels Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Experience the world of the Cu Chi freedom fighters with a visit to their famous tunnel system. This network of over 200 km of tunnels became legendary during the 1960's when they played a vital part in the American War, allowing the Viet Cong to control a large rural area close to Ho Chi Minh City. In their heyday, the tunnels were functioning underground cities.

Leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City behind, take a 2.5-hour journey west towards the Cambodian border bound for the Cu Chi Tunnels. The Cu Chi tunnels were built by local fighters during the Indochina conflict as a base from which the Viet Cong could operate from close to the Southern Vietnamese capital. Initial construction started in 1948 when the Viet Minh required somewhere to hide from French air attacks and by 1965, the Cu Chi tunnel complex was estimated to consist of 200km's of tunnels. It included, hospitals, schools, meeting rooms, kitchens and sleeping quarters. Life was difficult for the inhabitants and to protect against outside intruders bobby traps were laid throughout the complex.

Your local guide will take you on a fascinating tour around the Cu Chi Tunnels where you'll learn more about the conditions the Vietnamese people lived in, the hardships they faced and the amazing ingenuity employed to maintain life in the tunnels.

USD $32.50

Review by: Tara R	April 2012
Very good tour guide, only 5 of us on the trip which was a good number. Would recommend this, good value for money, very interesting and a chance to go into the tunnels. Also stopped in a village on the way which added to the experience.

Review by: Kian Yang L	April 2012
Very nice experience

Review by: ncbooth	March 2012
This was a great day the guide was excellent

Review by: elekesla	March 2012
Very enlightening tour. More time in the tunnels required however.

Review by: modeldriver	March 2012
The trip was good, the guide was very informative. However, the small group was really not very small at all - we had 14 people in the group !

Review by: CANDACE Y	March 2012
Really good tour, very interesting to learn all about the tunnels they built for the war.

Review by: Erik G	March 2012
great outing that contained several surprises. Very good guide that was personal, stimulating and knowledgeable.

Review by: john g	March 2012
A real nice trip with a perfect guide. A perfect day.

Review by: dave67	February 2012
Thoroughly enjoyable and very interesting to understand the history surrounding the Cu Chi Tunnels. Highly recommended.

Review by: michael h	February 2012
very good value for money. The guide Hung was excellent. More than we expected

Review by: RENATE G	February 2012
Such a fantastic tour and absolutely worth the money!!!

Review by: Ratna G	January 2012
Amazing place to visit and know the ground realities of how and what the guerillas went through. An extra word for the tour guide who did not restrict himself to the tour destination but kept us informed of the places we were passing. He shared his country's history and progress with us too.

Review by: Karen K	January 2012
Great tour, tour guide was excellent, spoke very good english and had good knowledge about a wide variety of thing in Vietnam. only 7 only tour on the day so we all had lots of attention from our guide. Very well organised, a must do while you are in Ho Chi Minh City!

Review by: WILMA B	January 2012
Very interesting. Going through the actual tunnel experience is a must.

Review by: David C	January 2012
A great experience, the most interesting trip of our 2 weeks in Vietnam. Cu Chi is a must if you have more than 1 day in Saigon. Fantastic guide: friendly, informal and well informed, with great English.

Review by: graham c	January 2012
Excellent half day trip - great value - everyone should see these tunnels (even if the '70's anti-American propaganda film shown is rather over the top!)

Review by: Swati	December 2011
Very professional conduct. We got no hassles for pick-up and timings. The guide was very nice and well informed about Cu Chi tunnels. Overall had a fabulous experience and will book through Viator again for all my holidays!

Review by: Anonymous	December 2011
A very interesting tour. I was amazing to not only see different tunnels but also get to walk through some of them. Presentations and reproduction were well done, how they lived and survived. Our guide was a wealth of information, and this made the tour even more interesting.

Review by: Archangel	December 2011
Our tour guide was amazingly knowledgable as well as adding a personal touch to each of the stories. The history of the area is staggering and well worth taking a look at. If you're given the chance to visit the Handicap Handicraft factory then do so! Amazing craftsmanship and all goes to a good cause.

Review by: Juraidah R	December 2011
Wel-informed and friendly tour guide.

Review by: William L	December 2011
Could have done without the stop to the laquer shop

Review by: Edna S	December 2011
Van our tour guide was incredible. The tour itself was good but made better by his great commentary.

Review by: Lawrence	December 2011
We were fortunate to have an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and friendly guide. He made to tour for us. The tour was eyeopening as showed us that the Viet Cong were ingenious in setting up the tunnel system to defeat the Americans and all their technology.

Review by: Brenton R T	November 2011
We had an excellent guide - his English skills were very good and he was very caring and pleasant. We had an interesting small group on the tour. An eye-opening coverage of the guerilla tactics used during the American War.

Review by: Deena N	November 2011
Excellent, great insight to the war and how they lived under ground was amazing!!! Worth the trip.. Highly recommend..

Review by: Sekoman	November 2011
A great tour tainted slightly by the propaganda DVD you watch at the beginning. The additional 'real' sound effects of AK47 rounds being shot off at the nearby shooting range make the tour somewhat strange. You have the opportunity half way through the tour. My girls, aged 7 and 9, also enjoyed the stop off at the rubber plantation and local resident's house.

Review by: Shirley Blue	November 2011
Get to understand and know more about the history

Review by: Otnasus	November 2011
This tour was enjoyable and informative. My partner and I were lucky enough to be in a small group of 5, making the experience much more personalised.

Review by: Jaybhatt	November 2011
Very interesting visit to the tunnels - a must do in HCMC. However, I felt our guide wasn't explaining things as comprehensively as other guides from other tour groups, I was seeing at the site.

Review by: Pamela D	November 2011
The guide very informative and friendly therefore a wonderful tour. I would recomend this company based on my 2 excellent experiences.

Review by: Michael H	October 2011
good trip

Review by: John F	October 2011
Excellent and informative, though understandably slanted.

Review by: Maria H	October 2011
Tour of Cu Chi Tunnel is worth going. Our Tour Guide is very efficient and caring. Although it was raining cats and dogs when we were there it is still good.

Review by: Kyle C	October 2011
Excellent well worth going and the tour guide was great.

Review by: Hannah B	October 2011
Huong I think her name was, was an amazing tour guide. The experience is one I will never forget. We were able to choose how far along the tunnel we went as well as shoot some guns. It was an amazing trip, and very insightful. I will never forget it.

Review by: Stephen J	October 2011
The tunnel experience was as I expected. The opportunity to go underground, and fire rifles are available for those wanting to try. The refreshment stop with green tea and boiled yam may not be to everyone's liking. The rifle shooting area is quite loud, but lets you imagine what the sounds of was were like.

Review by: Michael E	September 2011
We booked in for this trip the night before and were picked up from our hotel in an airconditioned bus (big tick) and were welcomed aboard by our Tour Guide, the lively and hilarious Sunny. A couple of hours out to the site went quickly with lots of information being passed on and places of interest pointed out. The tunnels themselves were amazing - the resiliance, determination and creativity of the Vietnamese people was a real eye opener. Loved the Vietnamese Nike trick, that really got us talking, absolute brilliance! Well worth your time, we accidently dropped in on a wedding ceremony on the way there (they had set up the wedding reception on the road). The locals were so excited to share a beer with us, it was a fantastic half day of past and present Vietnam.

Review by: Maureen M	September 2011
VERY GOOD, VINNY WAS VERY FUNNY

Review by: Ana Marie R	September 2011
it was a very informative tour.

Review by: Hanz	September 2011
We had a great time. The trip to Cu Chi Tunnel was very educational. We saw the superb works of the Vietnamese who engineered the tunnels. Thanks.

Review by: retobibi	September 2011
A bit a long drive for a relatively short tour but still a good experience. Very informed tour guide with very good English knowledge.

Review by: Anonymous, Australia	June 2010
An excellent insight into the history of life led in the environment of the tunnels. Great tour guide, Reno was knowledgeable and friendly and made the small group feel welcome. Thank you

Review by: Anonymous, Hong Kong	June 2010
Very good experience!

Review by: Airyn Saputri H, Indonesia	May 2010
Very exciting adventure! Thanks to a very nice guide that still take care us even if we were the only people who took that tour on day. Private tour with small group. The guide was really patient and explained everything to us. Highly recommended, two thumbs up!

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	May 2010
The arrangements went smoothly. The guide was very clear and he presented the information very well. Personally, I felt I had a good impression of what life was like for both sides of the conflict but felt I should have read up more on the background as the guide of course can only give the official version of events.

Review by: Dean D, Australia	May 2010
Once again it was good to get out of the city and see some of the countryside. This is a very important part of Vietnamese history that we have all heard about, it was fantastic to actually see it for ourselves and experience how small the tunnels actually are. We got to shoot a weapon from a variety they have on display. This was great fun but make sure you have plenty of money with you as it is a little expensive.

Review by: Mary Patricia F, Australia	May 2010
Our guide was very well-informed and pleasant - although the drive back was a bit scarey when the driver had an altercation with a bus driver after he went into the back of the vehicle!

Review by: Joanne G, New Zealand	May 2010
Was a great history tour and amazing to see the tunnels and traps. My husband was able to shoot an M60 gun, was his highlight of his day. Our guide Thi was really informative and the trip was set at a good pace.

Review by: Nichole J, Australia	May 2010
I enjoyed this experience but we were there in May and it was very hot, as we come from Darwin we are used to this heat someone from a colder climate might struggle. Like other review I read the guns shooting is next to the cafe and is very loud but that is all part of the experience if you want piece and quiet then take a trip down the Mekong. My husband and I found 20 metres of a crouch walk through the Cu Chi Tunnels was enough even though our son would of happily went further. I was at the back of our group and I was in complete darkness which was no good for me but maybe if you took a torch with you then it wouldn't be so bad.

Review by: Anonymous, Singapore	April 2010
Visiting Cu Chi Tunnels is an experience not to be missed where one wishes to learn about the Vietnam war and the Vietnam people's skillful survival strategies. Our guide is knowledgeable however may explain the events with more detail. She has a good sense of humor and manages to keep our tour group members comfortable during the drive to and fro Cu Chi.