Cuchi Tunnels, Vietnam

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Located near the village of Ben Suc, about 75km (46 miles) northwest of HCMC, The tunnel network of Cu Chi District became legendary during the 1960s for its role as a revolutionary base during the American War.

In the Cu Chi district alone, there were over 200km (125 miles) of tunnels. The network was several stories deep in places, included innumerable trap doors, a complete system of kitchens, medical clinics and operating rooms, meeting rooms and sleeping chambers with bamboo beds. The network also incorporated storage chambers for weapons and food, wells for drinking water, ventilation shafts to provide air and vent smoke from the Dien Bien Phu ovens. Cleverly concealed entrances, some even under the surface of nearby streams, hid access to the complex. Primative and gruesome booby traps protected the occupants if their tunnel was discovered.

The Vietnamese began digging the tunnels into the reddish-brown laterite clay with simple hand tools during the war against the French. The Cu Chi tunnels were part of an underground network that zigzagged from the southern tip of the Ho Chi Minh trail near the Cambodian border to the Saigon river. Up to 16,000 guerrillas could live in the tunnel complex at any one time. The Cu Chi tunnels is a must for any tour program in the South.

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