Saigon Tay Ninh (Black Lady Mountain) – Cu Chi day tour

Saigon – Tay Ninh (Ba Den Mountain) – Cu chi day tour 

This is a long day tour taking you to visit 2 highlighted places : Ba Den Mountain and Cu Chi Tunnels.

Estimated timings:

• Saigon to Ba Den Mountain: 2.5 hours
• Total time to visit the mountain, including cable car ride 2 ways : 1,5 hours
• Total time for Chua Hang pagoda cable car and roller coaster : 1 hour
• Lunch : 01 hour
• Ba Den Mountain to Cu Chi tunnels: 1,0 hour
• Visit Cu Chi tunnels: 1 hour
• Cu Chi tunnels to Saigon : 2 hours
• Total time of the day: 10 hours

DETAILED ITINERARY 

At 8,00 AM, our guide and driver will pick you up and drive directly to Ba Den Mountain of Tay Ninh Province in 2.5 hours with a quick toilet stop.

Upon arrival at Ba Den Mountain, our guide will take you up to the top of the mountain by a cable car. Right there, enjoy the great view of the area, learn the story of the mountain, admire the 72 meter high Lady Buddha statue, the 5000 ton heavy Happy Buddha statue and  enjoy a flower garden.

After that, we have to get down to the mountain bottom by the cable car.

After getting out the cable car, we will use another cable car line to reach the original Ba Den pagoda (Chua Hang) more than 300 years of age. Learn the way the Vietnamese show their religious beliefs in Buddhism. Learn the story of Ba Den (Black Lady). From their enjoy the FANTASTIC ROLLER COASTER RIDE

After 15 minutes riding the roller coaster with spectacular views, you will walk about 1 km to the car park then get in the car. Our driver and guide will take you to a local restaurant to enjoy lunch with all Vietnamese delicacies.

After lunch, you will spend about 01 hour driving to Cu Chi tunnels.

When arriving at Cu Chi tunnels, our guide will take you to explore the hidden war stories for about 01 hour. You will learn the secrets of Vietnam war in which North and South Vietnam were fighting against each other.

Things that you will surely see and get told during the visit:

• Secret entrances
• Personal fighting bunker
• Booby traps / Bamboo spikes
• Termite mounts, camouflaged finely as a ventilation hole
• Display of self-made traps from bomb shells by VC soldiers
• Shooting range – where you can buy real bullets to experience shooting real guns.
• Models of VC soldiers
• Fighting trenches
• Military workshops
• Military uniform bunker

After all, get back in the car and drive back to Saigon in about 2 hours.

The trip ends.

TOUR INCLUSIONS:

• Private 7-16 -29 seater new car/bus matching the number of travelers.
• 02 bottles of water each person
• Entrance tickets to Cu Chi tunnels
• 2 turns of cable car on Ba Den mountain; 1 way down of roller coaster ride
• Great English speaking guide who is always caring, helping, knowledgeable, and gentle.
• Intense visit of tunnel system with guide’s leading and clear explanation.
• Taste tapioca potato – common food for VC in war.
• Crawl into the tunnels with our guide if wanted.
• Set menu lunch at a nice local Vietnamese restaurant.
• Travel insurance valued at 60,000,000 VND for accidents and food poisons.

TOUR EXLUSIONS:

• Ordering drinks during lunch time
• Tips for guide and drivers (up to your satisfaction)

IMPORTANT NOTES

• The timing and order of visiting are just our suggestion and can be different from reality
• The order of visiting can be changed due to reality of traffic, weather or things like that but none of the included sites and services will be skipped
• For private tours, please feel free to ask our guide for any changes/adjustments you like to meet your final expectation AS LONG AS this doesn’t cause any troubles/extra costs.