Ho Chi Minh City & Cu Chi Tunnels: Full-Day Tour with Lunch

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Duration12h

GroupUp to 14

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

War Museum & 155 Miles of Underground Tunnels in One Day

You get picked up at your hotel, spend the morning touring Ho Chi Minh City's museums and markets with an English-speaking guide, eat lunch at a local restaurant, then drive out to explore the Cu Chi Tunnels—crawling through bunkers, hidden entrances, and living quarters. The van returns you to your hotel by evening. All entrance fees and transport are included; lunch is on your own.

12h

Step-by-step itinerary

Ho Chi Minh City and Cu Chi Tunnels Tour

Pickup at hotel
Visit Ben Thanh Market
Visit War Remnants Museum
Visit Notre Dame Cathedral
Visit Central Post Office
Visit Reunification Palace
Enjoy traditional Vietnamese lunch
Drive to Cu Chi Tunnels
Stop at handicraft lacquer workshop
Explore Cu Chi Tunnels and bunkers
Return to hotel

The Experience

The van pulls up at 7:45 AM. You step out into Ho Chi Minh City's morning heat—motorbikes already thick on the streets, vendors setting up stalls, the smell of pho drifting from corner restaurants. Your guide meets you with a cold towel and a bottle of water, and then you're moving. Ben Thanh Market comes first, the old colonial structure packed with locals buying silk, spices, souvenirs. It's chaos in the best way—narrow aisles, haggling, the real city before the tourists arrive in force. After that, the War Remnants Museum. It's heavy. The photographs, the exhibits, the stories—you spend real time here, not a rushed walk-through. Your guide explains the context, answers questions. It's not easy, but it matters.

Lunch happens around noon at a local restaurant, and you eat what they serve—traditional Vietnamese food, not a tourist version of it. Then the drive out to Cu Chi Tunnels begins. It takes time to get there, and on the way you stop at a handicraft workshop where locals make lacquer pieces by hand. The tunnels themselves are the reason you booked this. You crouch, you climb, you see the hidden entrances, the tiny chimneys that let smoke out without giving away positions, the bunkers and traps. A 155-mile network built by hand, mostly by hand, over years. Your guide walks you through what life was like down there—sleeping, eating, fighting, hiding. It's not a theme park version. The spaces are tight. The history is real.

The drive back to your hotel takes until around 7:30 PM, depending on traffic. By then you've covered the main Ho Chi Minh City highlights—Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Central Post Office—and you've stood inside one of the most significant tunnel systems of the Vietnam War. You're tired. You've seen a lot. The full-day tour with Cu Chi Tunnels does the heavy lifting so you don't have to figure out transport, timing, or which sites matter most.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and drop-off in an air-conditioned van, entrance fees to the War Remnants Museum, Ben Thanh Market, Notre Dame Cathedral, Reunification Palace, and the Cu Chi Tunnels, a stop at a handicraft lacquer workshop, an English-speaking guide throughout, a cold towel and one bottle of mineral water per person, and lunch at a local restaurant (at your own expense). If you book the limousine group option, lunch and dinner are included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Vietnam Travel Group Co., LTD

Is this one for you?Book this if you want Ho Chi Minh City's main sights and the Cu Chi Tunnels covered in a single day without arranging your own transport or timing—the fixed schedule and included guide handle the logistics so you can focus on the history and the city itself.