Tour name: Cu chi - Cao Dai

Tour code: SGD 02

Duration: full day

Tour starts from: Saigon (Ho CHi Minh City)

Tour ends in: Saigon (Ho CHi Minh City)

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Description:

Itinerary

Drive to visit the Cuchi Tunnels. 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.  After Cuchi Tunnels tour, drive to Long Hoa and visit Cao Dai Cathedral. 

The Great holy See temple, buit in 1926, is considered one of the most striking structures in all of Asia. It is the headquter of Caodaism, a relegion with colorful mix of Buddhism, Christiannity, Confucianism, Toaism. Visitors will attend the  prayer session to witness the daily mass held by the Cao Dai followers, which is a great experience. After lunch, back to HoChiMinh.

Inclusions:

• Transportation (A/C car)
• Entrance fee
• Lunch
• English/French speaking guide

Exclusions:

•  Personal travel insurance
• Tips and gratuities
• Everything not mentioned in the program

Price in USD : 80$/per person ( min 02 persons)

                     : 66$/per person for the group of 04 persons

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