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Today we drive
to visit the Cuchi Tunnels at the Cuchi village, a couple
of hour drive away. At the height of the Vietnam war, the
tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon all
the way to the Cambodian border of over 250 kilometers of
tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting
in the 1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet
Cong, control a huge rural area. It was an underground
city with living areas, kitchens,storage, weapons
factories, field hospitals, command centers. In places,
it was several stories deep and housed up to 10,000
people who virtually lived underground for years....
getting married, giving birth going to school. The ground
here is hard clay, which made this whole thing possible.
But even so, the planning and construction was
incredible. People dug all this with hand tools, filling
reed baskets and dumping the dirt into bomb craters. They
installed large vents so they could hear approaching
helicopters, smaller vents for air and baffled vents to
dissipate cooking smoke. There were also hidden trap
doors and gruesomely effective bamboo-stake booby traps
Today, the trees and bushes have grown back. And since
1988, two sections of tunnels have been open for visitors.
Note:
Trip start from
8.00am from your hotel and finishes around 5pm to your
hotel
Trip price: in
USD per person in the party of 2
Cost per person
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No of
person |
2 |
3-4 |
7-9 |
9-12 |
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In USD |
45 |
35 |
25 |
17 |
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