Hochiminh city tour (full day, half day)

• Independence Palace: Explore special architectural works and see historical artifacts

• Ba Thien Hau Temple: Admire and pray at a temple imbued with Chinese culture

• Cho Lon - Binh Tay Market: Walk around to see the bustling commercial life of Saigon

• Cu Chi Tunnels: Discover the majestic history of the "steel land" tunnel relic famous in 5 continents

 

• 08:00 - 08:30 am: Car and guide will pick you up at Viet Fun Travel Office (28/13 Bui Vien, Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1) or at the meeting point of hotels in the center District 1 to start the journey to visit Saigon - Cu Chi 1 Day.

• The car takes you to the first attraction - Independence Palace. This special historical work is one of the famous symbolic images of the city named after Uncle Ho, with an architecture that harmoniously combines modern and traditional.

• As the residence and working place of the President of South Vietnam during the war, the Independence Palace was designed and built by architect Ngo Viet Thu on a 12-hectare campus including more than 100 rooms decorated in different styles. different styles.

• Stopping at the Palace, you will visit 3 main display floors located in the Fixed Area:

• The first floor has the Stateroom, the Cabinet Meeting Room and the Banquet Room.

• The 2nd floor has a Map Room (National Security Council Meeting Room), President's Office, Reception Rooms, Credentials Presentation Room, Round Carpet, Stone Flower Curtain, ...

• The 3rd floor has the Library, the President's Wife's Reception Room and the Cinema Room.

• In addition, on the grounds of the Independence Palace, there are Thematic Areas and Additional Areas displaying historical documentary images about the process of formation and development of the Palace. In 2009, Independence Palace was ranked as one of the first 10 special National Monuments of Vietnam.

• Continuing the journey, the car will take you to Ba Thien Hau Temple, also known as Ba Cho Lon Pagoda. This is considered one of the temples with the oldest history of the Chinese people in Saigon.

• Built around 1760, Ba Thien Hau Temple is a temple dedicated to the Holy Mother Thien Hau with a strong Chinese cultural style. Here, you will see the statue of Ba Thien Mau carved from a block of black wood, standing out in the quiet and sacred space. In addition, the Central Palace area of the temple also houses one of the oldest ancient urns in history with an age of more than 130 years old.

• Besides the artistic value of architecture and sculpture, Ba Thien Hau Temple is also a sacred religious tourist destination for you to burn incense and pray for good things.

• Leaving Ba Thien Hau Temple, you continue your journey around the Cho Lon - Binh Tay Market area . You will see the hustle and bustle of the goods exchange center between the Vietnamese and Chinese communities in Saigon. The bustling pace of life, diverse goods, and interesting trading activities all create a colorful cultural picture.

• Noon: Car and tour guide take the group to the restaurant for lunch.

• 13:10 – 13:30: After lunch, we will continue our journey with a visit to Cu Chi Tunnels . 

• 15:00: After about 2 hours of travel, you will visit Ben Dinh Tunnels - this is the base of the leadership of the Cu Chi District Party Committee in the resistance war against the US, a unique fighting position of the Cu Chi District. years of smoke and fire, was ranked as a National Historical and Cultural Relic by the State in 2004.

• Starting your journey to visit and learn the history of this monument, you stop at the Weapons Gallery. Here, you can see the bombs, artillery of the US army and the combat weapons of our guerrilla soldiers used on the Cu Chi battlefield that year.

• Leaving the Weapons Gallery, the group will continue to move through the tunnel, about 100m long, on Provincial Road 15 to reach the Cinema Room.

• 15:15: Arrive at the Cinema Room, before moving into the hall, you will be briefly introduced by the tour guide about the structure of the underground tunnel system through the tunnel cross-section diagram. After that, you will enter the hall to watch a short documentary about the guerrilla war of local people and hear an introduction to the history of formation and development of the Cu Chi tunnel system.

• 15:30: Continue your journey to explore Ben Dinh Tunnels, you stop to visit and take souvenir photos with highlights within the relic site such as: Secret tunnel lid, camouflaged traps, holes ventilation disguised as termite mounds, trenches, fighting emplacements, and soldier stations.

• In particular, you will also be able to see and check in with the "Legendary Tank M41" - The US army tank that was caught in a mine planted by our soldiers in 1970 in the middle of the forest. This is proof of the failure of the US army on the Cu Chi battlefield that year.

• Continuing the journey, you will visit the Trap Gallery, the Recycling Engineering Workshop, the self-made anti-mine system, iron forging and stop to rest at the Souvenir Counter. Here, you will be free to visit and enjoy shopping for unique gifts made from bullet shells such as: oil lamps, lighters, ballpoint pens, straps and lacquer items, high-end fine arts, rattan, bamboo and leaf products typical of traditional craft villages in Cu Chi.

• After resting, you continue to move to Defense Sports Shooting Area. Here, you will have the opportunity to participate in a thrilling experience with extremely exciting and lively real-life shooting activities.

• Leaving the National Defense Sports Shooting Area, you move and stop to visit the Aircraft Shooting Tunnel and Statue Area simulating the daily life of guerrilla soldiers with activities such as: Rice milling, making wine, making rice paper... Especially, you will also see with your own eyes the images of soldiers digging tunnels and understand more about the difficult process of building the Cu Chi tunnel system.

• Continue moving, the guide will take you to visit the beard sandal making area - A type of sandals used by soldiers during the years of resistance. Not only learn the process of producing beard sandals, here you can also buy beard sandals made from old tires as souvenirs.

• The journey to explore Ben Dinh Tunnels will continue to take you to stop at Ho Bom B52 - Remnants of war left on Cu Chi homeland. Through the process of visiting, you like going back in time to those heroic years.

• Leaving Bomb Hole B52, you continue to move to the tunnel system and experience tunneling activities to discover "life in the ground". Here, you will be able to set foot down to explore the unique and impressive tunnel works such as: ambulance room, meeting room.

• After the tunneling experience, the guide continues to take you to visit Hoang Cam Kitchen. Here, you will witness with your own eyes a very creative invention in hiding smoke of our soldiers at that time.

• At the end of the tour, you will stop to rest, wash your hands with a unique hand washing system and be "treated" with tapioca dipped in salt and beans - the dish of the guerrillas in the past but now. has become a specialty.

• 16:30 - 16:45: Farewell to Ben Dinh Tunnels, the car and tour guide take you back to the center of Saigon. 

• 18:30 - 19:00: Arrive in Saigon, the tour guide bid farewell and see you again in other interesting journeys.