Cu Chi Travel Blogs

I took one day tour to Chao Dai Temple and Cu Chi Tunnel. It took about three hours van riding from HCMC to Chao Dai temple. However, after an hour driving from HCMC, we stopped by at a workshop for the disable that made several beautiful Vietnamese crafts. Then the journey continued to Chao Dai te…

Only my second full day in Ho Chi Minh and I already wanted a breather.  However, baring a holiday, I have never left again.  I love Minh City, I think that I was just eager to spy a bit of the countryside.  I negotiated a horrible fare, in retrospect, at the time, howeve…

***English version to come soon***Het was echt een fantastische dag vandaag. Gisterenavond nog een derde persoon in onze kamer gekregen: Christy, een Australische die in Londen woont. Nu zijn we dus compleet en het is wel leuk dat het drie mensen zijn die alleen reizen. Ik heb zalig geslapen afgelo…

My words on this computer screen could NEVER ever describe the feelings and emotions that the orphanage experience offered.  You'll have to ask me in person to get an inkling of the power of this moment in time.  Day #1: I showed up at the orphanage and met the director who was complete…

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) A trip to the Cu Chi tunnels was one of the main things i'd been looking forward to in Vietnam and we visited the site as a day trip from Saigon. On the way, we stopped off at an arts and craft village, which employed dis…

I woke up early for the whole-day tour that I booked, grabbed some baguette and waited at the tour office.   Then came the guide and asked me to hop in the minivan.  There were seven of us, plus the driver and the guide, a couple of Aussies and a group of friends from Netherlands…

IT WAS my third day in Saigon and I was determined to visit the infamous Cu Chi tunnel before I embark on the next leg of my adventure to Nha Trang – staying overnight on the sleeper train! Part of the challenges in travelling as a backpacker (with very limited budget) is that you learn how to ma…

While in Saigon, I wanted to visit the Cu Chi tunnels, used by the Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) to hide and fight against the Americans during the war. Seen as I had enjoyed the trip with TNK, the company I went to the Mekong with, I booked up with them again, and a full-day tour even included…

The district of Cu Chi lies 70km North of Saigon and houses an immense network of underground tunnels which were of great strategic importance during the Vietnam war.  These tunnels have been preserved and, in recent years, opened to tourists.Wanting to avoid the over touristy experience, we d…

A second major tourist attraction of Sai gon are the legendary tunnels built by the Viet Cong during the first and second Indochina wars. Popularly known as the Cu Chi tunnels, this impressive underground network served as a hiding, living and meeting place for the Viet Cong and had everything from…

  I took the half-day tour out to the Cu Chi Tunnels. The bus driver drove unusually slow where traffic was thin and roads wide open. He never would have made it as a MaiLihn Express or a Domino's Pizza delivery man and I reckoned that he must have been paid by the hour and looking for a lit…

During our stay in Saigon, we stayed at the Oscar Hotel (located on Nguyen Hue, Dist. 1). The location was perfect! No complaints about the hotel, really. We really enjoyed our stay there.Since we only were spending 2 days in Saigon, we decided that it would be best to take organized tours. We ende…

05:30 uur loopt de wekker af. We gaan ontbijten en staan precies om 07:00 uur voor het hotel te wachten. De bus is iets te laat, maar Caroline is nog later, want die komt pas als iedereen al lang en breed in de bus zit. Onderweg naar Cu Chi tunnels zien we een botsing van 2 brommers. De één steek…

Today is a day I’ve been waiting for, one of the reasons I wanted to go to Vietnam. The tunnels of Cu Chi. It’s 5.30 am and I jump out of bed like a little boy that goes to an amusement park with his parents for the first time in his life. Our bus leaves at 7. It takes quite a while to get out…

The Cu Chi tunnels, was an interesting place, as we got to see the many different types of traps the Cu Chi civilians layed out to hurt their enemies. The Cu Chi Guerilla's were in fact, South Vietnamese inhabitants, however they fought for the North. All entry fees, proceeds, donations, p…