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Les Rives Cu Chi Tunnels Speedboat Tour - Review
Post Last Modified – August 11, 2023 ¦ gr8traveltips.com

Reviewing Our Les Rives Cu Chi Tunnels Speedboat Tour

One of the main attractions not to be missed and located just outside of 🏙 Ho Chi Minh City, is the …

🚤 Les Rives Cu Chi Tunnels 🚤

Historical Site Tour. This half day tour by 🚤 river boat to the tunnels, is the only way to travel to these historic tunnels located about 1 ½ hours outside of the city.

Many 🚍 bus tours head to this main tourist attraction, but riding in an open fast 🚤 boat while enjoying the scenery and life along the Saigon River, is the only way to go!

Cu Chi Province in Vietnam – Brief History

Cu Chi Tunnel Diagram

During the years of the Vietnam conflict with the Americans, literally thousands of Vietnamese living in the Province of Cu Chi, survived underground in an incredibly sophisticated system of tunnels.

Dating back years before to resist French occupation, the tunnels were expanded during the war with the United States. When the Americans began bombing the villages of Cu Chi extensively, these brave people survived underground for years, enduring tremendous hardship.

Inside these tunnels, you could find complete villages, that connected to one another. One could find; schools, hospitals, theatres, public spaces and much more. Often these tunnels would lie directly underneath extensive American bases, without them knowing and served as hiding places for the Viet Cong Army Soldiers.

Today at Cu Chi Tunnels, it is of course very commercialized for tourists, but one can still sense what these people endured during war time, and their amazing will to survive underground for years at a time.

Learn more about the Cu Chi Tunnels by clicking on the website link below …

📰 Tunnels of Cu Chi 📰



Reasons To Choose Les Rives Speedboat Tour

Les Rives Fastboat Staff

If you don’t already know, southern Vietnam is 🥵 hot and muggy, all year long! I’m always looking at tours outside of the box, not your typical crowded tour 🚌 bus arrangement, that most everyone takes. When I discovered a 🚤 river boat small group tour to the Cu Chi Tunnels, it sounded perfect!

Traveling with my son on this trip, we chose the early morning 7 am tour, to get a head start on the day and the heat as well. A good choice as it turned out!

The Les Rives 🚌 Shuttle Bus arrived at our hotel promptly at 7 am as previously arranged. We were met by a friendly host and were escorted to the nearby pier to board our 🚤 fast boat.

Enjoy A Comfortable Scenic Boat Ride On The Saigon River

Our Wonderful English Speaking Tour Guide

Les Rives Cu Chi Tunnel Tour Guide

We boarded our comfortable boat complete with 2 captains and a wonderful English speaking tour guide.  Once on our way, we were immediately offered a tasty 🥪 bunwich with drinks and 🍍 fruit, for breakfast.

As we made our way up river, our guide began pointing out areas of interest and explaining the normal way of life, for those working and living on the banks of the – Saigon River.

Saigon River Boat and Home

The day began slightly overcast and very humid, making the ride on the river in our open air covered boat, cool and comfortable, compared to having to ride in a stuffy and crampy large tour bus.

Enjoying the Open Air Boat Journey

Les Rives Fastboat Tour

The ride takes about 1 ½ hours where you can sit back, relax and enjoy the open air and scenery!

Saigon River Homes

Saigon River Homes



Arriving At The Cu Chi Tunnels Pier

Pier Entrance to Cu Chi Tunnel Complex

Cu Chi Tunnel Tour Entrance

The Cu Chi Tunnels Complex

After our pleasant journey, our guide escorted us to the main entrance to the Cu Chi Tunnel Complex.

Once inside, you will be shown a short very old 📹 video on Cu Chi during the war with Americans and the tunnel system. There are over 250 kilometers of complex underground tunnels, consisting of several levels for; dining, living and much more.

You are then shown various exhibits along the way and given the opportunity to step down into a short tunnel, to experience what it was like to walk through. It also gives you a feel of what life must have been like for those people living underground, for such a long period of time.

“The tunnel system embodies the strong will, intelligence, and pride of Cu Chi people, a symbol of revolutionary heroism of Vietnamese people.”

Although very much commercialized for tourism today, the tour is very worthwhile with exhibits and demonstrations inside the complex.

Cu Chi Tunnels B52 Bomb Crater

Cu Chi Tunnels Bomb Crater

Large bomb craters are still visible throughout the complex, from 40 plus years past. A reminder of the huge devastation this area and people endured during wartime.

US Tank Relic Cu Chi Tunnels

US Tank Relic Cu Chi Tunnels

A destroyed American M41 Tank resting inside the complex, as a reminder of the American/Vietnamese Conflict decades ago.

Cu Chi Tunnel Secret Entrance

Cu Chi Tunnel Secret Entrance

Staff demonstrate the sophisticated hidden tunnel entrances, and allow you to squeeze down inside!

Entrance ways shown above were very small, making it very difficult for an American Soldier to gain access.

Cu Chi Tunnel Entrance

Cu Chi Tunnel Entrance

Above is a reconstructed entrance to one of the; Cu Chi Tunnels, made large enough for visitors to enter. Walk 20, 40 or 60 meters inside one of these complex tunnels, to experience what life must have been like for those living underground for years on end.

Woman Cooking Cu Chi Tunnels

Woman Cooking Cu Chi Tunnels

Demonstrations throughout the tour, such as this woman above showing how cooking was done underground with an ingenious venting system that ran through the tunnel to the ground surface and well away from their location, as not to attract the enemy.



Les Rives – Providing Small Group Tours

What made this tour even more enjoyable, was the relaxing small group tour along with the scenic boat ride up the Saigon River, to and from the Cu Chi Tunnels.

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I highly recommend this type of tour to that of the stuffy crowded bus, taking the long ride on the highway to the complex. Being able to enjoy the sites along the river in the open air, with a wonderful crew and guide was excellent!

Below, I have listed the official website to 🚤 Les Rives Tours, where you can access much more detailed information on this tour, and the many more this company has to offer for your convenience. 🗺 Be sure to check out the {Google Map} box at the bottom of this post for the exact location of Ho Chi Minh City. 🗺

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