Cu Chi Tunnels

Địa đạo Củ Chi – Khu di tích Bến Đình

Crawl through wartime tunnels barely wider than your shoulders

⚠ Tight, hot, claustrophobic

Hours

Daily 7am–5pm

Tickets

Foreign adult entry quoted anywhere from 70,000 to about 110,000 VND (check on site); usually included in tour prices

Address

60–70 km northwest of District 1; two sites, the main tourist one at Ben Dinh and the quieter Ben Duoc further on

A network of tunnels dug by hand by villagers and guerrillas during the Vietnam War. Guides start by showing a hatch the size of a sheet of paper hidden under leaf litter, then vanishing into it. You walk past bamboo spike traps, an underground kitchen and the chimney system that bled smoke away, then duck-walk through a stretch of tunnel already widened for tourists; you still can't straighten up, and you're soaked in sweat within minutes. Most visits end with a taste of boiled cassava, the wartime staple.