Ben Dinh Tunnels Section
As we’ve mentioned before, there are two tunnels in Cu Chi.
The village of Ben Dinh is located nearly 60 km from Ho Chi Minh City. The tunnels here are a very touristic spot,
that’s why sometimes, especially during the high season, it may be overcrowded.
Most of the companies will bring you here. But not all of them will tell you
that Ben Dinh tunnels have been a part of a real network and were specially created
only for tourists.
How to organize a trip to Ben Dinh Tunnels?
Most group
tours will visit Ben Dinh. The majority of tourist
companies in Vietnam can organize a trip for you, including a transfer to/
from the hotel and a guided tour. If you organize your trip by yourself and
reach the destination from Ho Chi Minh City, you can buy the ticket for
entrance the tunnels on the spot,
Most information on the Cu Chi
tunnels fails to make clear that there are two different sites. If you go with
a package tour you will be taken to the Ben Dinh site which displays tunnels
that have been enlarged/reconstructed for tourists and it is unclear whether
any of it is original. the propaganda film, the displays about booby traps etc,
but the tunnels you go in are small tunnels that form part of the original
tunnel complex - with lots of branches leading off (do follow guide's
instructions, you could actually get lost otherwise, it would be quite scary)
and not enlarged, you end up on hands and knees at one stage and go quite deep
down a slopy tunnel. In all, you experience four different tunnel sections but
the guide will ask you to skip it if you look unfit, unwell or too big to
squeeze in (entrances have been enlarged and fortified for three of the tunnels
but it still gets sqeezy inside
How to get there by Public bus?
If you decide to use a service
of a tourist company, most probably they will provide you a private car or a
bus with a pick-up at your hotel.
In a case you want to travel to
Cu Chi on your own to Ben
Dinh Section in cheapest way. You should take a Bus #13 that
leaves from the BẾN CV 23/9 bus station (between Lê Lai and Nguyên Thi
Nghia, near to KFC restaurant). Its last stop is Cu Chi. Bus fare is
approximately $0,3 (7,000 VND), and the ride is about 1,5 hours.
When you arrive arrive to Cu Chi bus station, you should take a Bus #79.
The ride will last about 45 minutes and cost $0,25 (6,000 VND).
The bus will reach a T-junction with Ben Duoc on the left and Ben Dinh on the
right, which are in nearly 20 minutes of walking to Ben
Dinh section Or taking Motorbike taxi to reach Ben Dinh tunnels. ( 20.000vnd)
after we get off the public bus. You need to go back to this T-Junction to wait
for the bus to return to the city
Prices and program
A private half-day tour
arranged by a tourist office may cost from $50 to $75, depends on size of the
vehicle. and
about US$5(110.000vnd) for Ben Dinh for a guided 45 – 60 min tour. The program of the tours at both
tunnels is pretty much similar and includes a 20-minute black and white propaganda film, tunnel tour and displays
of booby traps. In the end of the tour, you
will get a chance to taste a steamed tapioca, which is a popular in this
region food
Most of you may know about Vietnam Country
through its war history and Stories about Vietnam war have been told and retold
thousands of time in magazine, Newspaper articles, books, Televisions and
Movie...., then No need to repeat here. Unfortunately, Some accounts wrongly
give misleading or not fully enough....Why not take a short trip to Chuchi
tunnels where you can not only be told about all the war but also touch on that
and walk on that.
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