Tour the sites of Ho Chi Minh City and travel back in time on a visit to the Cu Chi Tunnels with this full day tour that includes lunch. You’ll see Notre Dame Cathedral and the famous Post Office that was built during colonial times. Then tour the War Remnants Museum and the Reunification Palace. Finally, you’ll head to Cu Chi Tunnels, where you’ll go far underground with a local guide and learn how thousands of people survived down below the ground’s surface during the Vietnam War.
Highlights:
- • Discover the best of Ho Chi Minh city and its surrounding areas
- • Visit the beautiful Notre Dame Basilica
- • Go to Cu Chi Tunnels to know more about the history of Vietnam War
Itinerary
- • 8:00 pickup from your hotel within the city centre.
- • Have a moment of silence and reflection at the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Admire the church’s neo-Romanesque design. This is where thousands of visitors had gathered to witness a rumoured miracle: the blood tears of the Virgin Mary statue
- • Visit the Central Post Office to see the charming telephone boxes, old-fashioned glue pots, looping arches, and marble floors. Try sending mail the traditional way.
- • Discover Vietnam’s culture and history on this educational city tour.
- • Travel 60km away from Ho Chi Minh City to Cu Chi Tunnels to visit the network of over 200km of legendary tunnels that played a vital role during the Vietnam War.
- • During the war, the tunnels were functioning underground cities including numerous trap doors, specifically constructed for living areas, storage facilities, weapon factories, field hospitals, command centres and kitchens.
- • Return to Ho Chi Minh City and get drop-off at your hotel.