Cu Chi tunnels boat and Underground in Saigon (Group tour) - 01 Day

7:00am: Your guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel and bring you by car to your boat at Ho Chi Minh City’s pier.

7:20am: Depart Saigon by boat. Within 15 minutes, the banks of the river change from city sprawl to lush jungle. A light breakfast of sandwiches or pastries, fresh tropical fruits and Vietnamese iced coffee (Ca phe sua da) is served, as your guide explains rural traditions and aspects of riverbank life.

8:50am: Arrive at the Cu Chi Tunnels site, before the majority of larger bus tours arrive. Watch a brief introductory ‘propaganda’ video to the Cu Chi area.

9:00am: Explore the Cu Chi site, which includes weapon and booby trap exhibitions, navigating authentic Viet Cong tunnel, visiting different underground bunkers (kitchens, meeting rooms, ammunitions etc.), a firing range and much more. Try the local cassava root that sustained Viet Cong fighters for years.

11:00am: Enjoy a delicious traditional Vietnamese lunch by the river, consisting of authentic fried spring rolls, chicken and beef dishes and soup.

11:30am: Depart Cu Chi and return to Ho Chi Minh City.

1:00pm: Arrive back at Saigon’s pier and be picked up by your motorbike driver.

1:30pm: You will visit a secret printing house covered as a guitar shop and used during the Indochina war for publishing propaganda tracts in 1952 – 1957.

2:30pm: After an adventurous ride, you will stop at a secret weapon cache that functioned during the Vietnam War. In case one of the underground sites is not available on the day of your tour, you will visit a hospital built by French in the end of the 19th century that in fact was used as a prison from the 30s till the end of Vietnam War in 1975.

3:15pm: You will leave the weapon cache and be driven to a local coffee shop for refreshment.

4:30pm: Your driver will drop you of at your hotel.