Viet Cong Tunnels

The end of our Vietnam trip in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and we thought we wouldn’t be able fit in a visit to the Viet Cong tunnels at Cu Chi. It was our last day and all the organised tours had gone in the morning. Private tours were stupidly expensive. The site is only 30km from Saigon so we asked a taxi driver. No problem, we hired him to take us there, wait and bring us back for a fraction of the price of a “tour”. We were whisked through the countryside to the banging sounds of Euro Disco which I guess he thought we’d like. I did quite like it even on the second play on the way back.

Parts of the Viet Cong tunnels have been preserved here including a typical entrance hatch here…

and tunnels below… best not to be too (or even slightly) claustrophobic here!

mock ups of some of the improvised traps and weapons are on display too

along with other buildings all studded with eary B52 bomb craters

Then you can fire a gun. It’s not big and it’s not clever, all right! We went for the AK47 of course.