Dantruong Travel & Tourism

Cu Chi Tunnel is a large network of tunnels connecting underground in Cu Chi district, Vietnam.

At first there was no direct order to build this Tunnel, but Tunnel arise as a war tactic response to attacks carried out against the French army and later the USA.
In 1948 Tunnel built so that they can avoid the air and ground attack French troops.

Each village Tunnel build their own routes and gradually these routes successfully connected to each other and reinforced.

Tunnel is also used by the army NFL “National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) to confront the American soldiers in the vietnam war.
In 1965 there were already Tunnel long connected with more than 200 Km and it became more developed, the route becomes more complex, so that the Tunnel is also equipped with various facilities such as bedrooms, kitchens, where care / hospital.
Equipment many obtained from the spoils of war are improvised, such as electricity generated from a stolen motorcycle engines.

Medical field are also many experienced improvisation, from the wreckage transformed into surgical instruments, so the doctor can perform blood transfusions.
Water and food became scarce, not rare these fighters have to stay for days in the Tunnel to avoid the bombing that made the American soldier.
Besides scorpions, ants, spiders, mosquitoes, malaria is also added hard life in Tunnel.

The presence of American Tunnel and finally kissed them carried out operations to destroy the Tunnel by sending aircraft B52 and dropped as much as 30 tons of bombs in the Cu Chi area.

Ground troops were also sent to find and destroy the Tunnel.
Yet America can never destroy the power and greatness Tunnel.

Vietnam War frustrating American troops, the number of casualties and material losses in 1975 caused the U.S. withdraw its troops.

Tunnel now been converted enable as attractions for tourists.