Crawl into a tunnel network hundreds of kilometres long, learn how people lived underground in wartime, see the traps and taste cassava with sesame salt.
The Cu Chi Tunnels are a hand-dug network of more than 200 km built during the war, complete with living quarters, smokeless kitchens, wells and exits to the river.
At the site you watch a documentary, see the bunkers and booby traps, try crawling through a section widened for visitors and taste boiled cassava — a staple food of the time.
Pickup in central Saigon
Tunnels site
Introductory documentary.
Bunkers and traps
Tunnel crawl and cassava tasting
Head back
Back in the city centre
Independence Palace, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Central Post Office, the War Remnants Museum, Cholon and Ben Thanh Market — with a private car, no traffic or parking stress.
Escape to Saigon's green lung: cross on the Binh Khanh ferry, visit Monkey Island, take a speedboat through the mangroves to the Rung Sac base and lunch on seafood at Hang Duong market.
Ride an open-top jeep to watch sunrise over the White Sand Dunes, then visit the Red Dunes, Mui Ne fishing village and Fairy Stream — Mui Ne's best sights in one morning.
