Cu Chi Tunnels - Travel and Tourism Vietnam

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Written by: Debbie Salcedo and Marty Rodriguez
04/13/05

Title: Cu Chi Tunnels of Vietnam: the Cong's Secret Weapon
About: Travel and Tourism Vietnam

They were small, wiry, and comparatively non-technologically equipped against their Western foes. Yet, the hardy Vietnamese fought in, resisted and gained victories in some of the toughest battles seen by the West. How’d they do it?

Originally used as secret underground tunnels by the Viet Cong guerillas during the war, the 200 kilometer Cu Chi tunnels now serve as a unique tourist draw for history and war story buffs alike.

Tunnel Entrance

Located an hour and half’s drive from Ho Chi Minh City, the Tunnels offer opportunities of exploring the dark, worm-like tunnels where that spooky yet incredible feeling reliving the experiences of Vietnamese guerillas as they plot and set campaigns against the heavily armed Western invaders pervade.

Built to suit the smaller Vietnamese frame, the tunnel entrances are very small and can be a tight fit for the guests. In latter efforts to promote tourism among the Westerners, a widened tunnel has been provided for bigger framed visitors to pass through. Visitors with a tendency towards claustrophobia are gently discouraged from attempting to crawl through the tunnels.

Tourists of all to the tunnels cannot help but be impressed by the efforts undertaken by these resourceful soldiers digging hard red soil with the use of simple spades and crude tools.

Remnants of the kitchens, barracks, infirmaries, bunkers, and meeting rooms may still be seen in the labyrinthine network built by the Viet Cong. The ingenious design of the tunnels is cleverly well planned along with the strategic use of trap doors and air filtration systems.

The tunnels are very strange, seeming to appear out of nowhere and are very well hidden away. Just to imagine the many kinds of bombing and chemical attacks done to ferret out the wily Vietnamese that occurred in the tunnels are amazing in themselves.

Tunnel Passage

Complex, mysterious and resilient, these descriptions of the Vietnamese can very well be used for the tunnels, by which they lived, fought and survived.

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