Setting foot in Ho Chi Minh city, international tourists may be shocked by the heavy traffic along many streets in the downtown, but varied attractions or landmarks here will get them excited immediately; Cu Chi Tunnels is a typical example. This is a renowned historical destination related to the Vietnamese War and depicted as an incredible network of tunnels literally built under the ground. To explain why Cu Chi Tunnels should be chosen as the ideal travel place in Ho Chi Minh city, 5 following reasons can help.
Cu Chi Tunnels symbolizes the inventiveness of Vietnamese
It will not be the flattery if we say that Vietnamese guerrillas are extremely clever and smart soldiers on the battleground during the Vietnamese war age. Travellers are advisable to take a Cu Chi tunnels tour in order to visit this achievement and fully feel the great Vietnamese’s ingenuity and endurance. Perhaps, it’s too hard for the travellers to believe that the complicated network of tunnels were created by hand and lasted hundreds of kilometers in the deep underground.
Cu Chi Tunnels still keeps quite intact
Throughout many decades with the society’s development, Cu Chi Tunnels still remains intact like it looked at the beginning. It’s known that many other constructions were devastated during the period of Vietnam war because of the enemies’ ravages, so the intact existence of Cu Chi Tunnels until now helps it become a remarkable historic point many people desire to explore. The revolution in this network is not considerable and mainly makes it still look like its original structure. Due to that, travellers will obtain a “real” feeling about the Vietnam past.
Travellers can consider Cu Chi Tunnels as a playground instead of a museum
It’s brilliant! An opportunity of literally touching history is waiting for travellers at Cu Chi Tunnels. In spite of many tunnels closed for specific safety reasons, others still open to satisfy the travellers’ passion of exploring and experiencing the Vietnam history. Climbing inside some of the allowed tunnels, bending while walking through these dark areas, observing everything there and taking photos are all what travellers will experience in a Cu Chi tunnels tour half day. Thanks to this tour, they have a chance to know about the hard war time of the past Vietnamese.
True Stories about the Life inside Tunnels Are Told by A Professional Tour Guide
Going with a professional tour guide, tourists will once understand the hard life of Vietnamese soldiers, children, and families into the underground. Stories he tells are also the extremely moving and surprising ones about the people’s creation and efforts to well manage all hidden schools, bases, or restaurants throughout years of war. Additionally, he also explains the tourists how the tunnels savored Vietnamese from the war.
It is a Special Feeling to Enjoy Boiled Cassava – the Vietnamese’s Main Dish during the War Period
Taking a Cu Chi Tunnels tour, travellers will feel excited to enjoy boiled cassava (going with roasted tofu salt); it was used as the basic dish of Vietnamese in many years of war. Now, it becomes a specialty of Cu Chi, which any traveller should also taste.
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