Day 01
Saigon Highlights and Cu Chi Tunnels
- Start the tour at the colonial-style Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral.
- Continue to Thien Hau Pagoda and a unique district unlike any other in Vietnam - the bustling Chinatown, where signboards appear in both Chinese and Vietnamese, and the local inhabitants communicate in both languages. At the center of this exciting area is the grand market of Chợ Lớn, meaning "The Big Market."
- Many Chinese residents living in this quarter have achieved great trading success through their know-how, wisdom, and dynamism.
- After lunch in Saigon, head northwest to the Cu Chi Tunnels, one of the very few remaining monuments to the Vietnam War. Beneath the ground at Cu Chi lies a 200 km tunnel network, dug by hand and once inhabited by Vietnamese guerrilla forces during the conflict.
- At its peak, before the Tet Offensive in 1968, the tunnel complex served as a base for nearly 10,000 troops. To this day, it remains one of the most impressive examples of how fierce the war was. Return to Saigon in the late afternoon.
