07:30: Tour guide and GTrip team will pick you up at your hotel.
Depart for Cu Chi Tunnels, which is just 60 kilometers far away from the city center. Arrive at Cu Chi Tunnels gate - the land of steel, you will discover a lot of things about the art of people’s war:
- The weapons that used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in the war, including hand-made guns.
- Watch the documentary about the tunnel system and the people’s war.
- Learn about the tunnel system structure.
- Witness many kinds of Vietnam war era deadly TRAPS which were used by The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (VC) & how it worked.
- Get into the tunnels, experience as a VC soldier.
- Visit B52 bomb hole
- Weapon Workshop, VC Soldier's combat sandals Workshop (Dép Râu).
- Experience Vietnam war’s era real gun fire (personal fee - buy at least 10 bullets)
- Taste the boiled tapioca, which were widely eaten by the VC during the wartime, try jasmine tea.
11:00:
- Go back to Ho Chi Minh City Center.
- Try the sugarcane juice on the way.
13:00: Arrive at Cơm Tấm Đỗ Phủ - Since 1946, a restaurant with Saigon pre75’s style decoration:
- Have lunch with traditional Saigon Broken Rice (Cơm Tấm)
- An old Renault car that used to transport weapons.
- Explore the secret base, where VC used to store equipment.
- Explore the secret weapon armory, learn how VC hid their weapon.
14:00: Visit around Saigon City Center:
- The War Remnants Museum: offers a shocking reminder of the long and brutal Vietnam War, with many graphic photographs and American military equipment on display.
- Independence Palace: is a popular historical site in Ho Chi Minh City and continues to be used for Government meetings and receptions.
- Saigon Central Post Office: is one of the most famous and iconic attractions in Ho Chi Minh City with its unique structure and remnants of the city’s past.
16:00: Visit Ben Thanh Market, where people sell everything you might need from clothing, household items to food, so you can definitely find souvenirs here to bring back home.
17:00: Back to your hotel. Finish this Ho Chi Minh City and Cu Chi Tunnels tour!
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch