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Foreign tourists enjoy the experience of walking underground in Cu Chi tunnels, Vietnam

In early 2023, a tourist from Spain using a Tiktok account with the nickname @joehattab.es shared a short video about his awesome experience at Cu Chi Tunnels (HCMC) during his trip to Vietnam.
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After only a short time, this video quickly caused a "storm" of the network with a "huge" amount of views and currently attracts about 40 million views and 1.5 million likes, becoming one of the hottest travel review videos to date on this platform.

However, this is not the only visitor surprised and delighted with the unique experience trip to Cu Chi. Accordingly, just searching with the keyword "Cu Chi tunnels" visitors can see dozens of videos appearing on Tiktok with content about the historical destination of this steel land.
The special thing is that the above videos were recorded and posted by international tourists, along with status lines expressing their excitement and amazement at the experience of "walking underground" in Cu Chi. Even many videos shot here also attract "terrible" views, up to several tens of millions of views and thousands of comments.

According to the reporter's research, the Cu Chi tunnels experience tour is currently posted and sold on many international travel apps. Therefore, many foreign tourists know and want to experience this tunnel.
Almost everyone felt curious and excited when being guided into the secret tunnel and trying to "walk underground" through the tiny brick walkway like the Cu Chi militia used to be fighting in the old resistance war.
Cu Chi Tunnels located about 70km from the center of Ho Chi Minh City, is known as the "land of steel" when it was once considered a solid base of the Military Zone Committee, the Saigon - Gia Dinh Command in two wars resistance.
Tunnels were built in 1946 and took 20 years to complete with a tunnel system up to 200 km long, 3-12m deep, including 12 floors, withstanding the destructive power from many types of heavy bombs.
This is also the place to live, work and fight of Cu Chi army and people. It has many rooms, a medical cellar, a canteen, a meeting room, a food warehouse, weapons, a battle drive, a kitchen, garment factories, military factories, and water wells...
This area's terrain is complicated and has a lot of historical significance, so most tourists buy a tour with a guide to explain and lead the direction to avoid getting lost.
Later, some tunnels were renovated, extended or restored models for tourists to visit, and became famous tourist attractions, attracting both domestic and international visitors to experience and learn.
Previously, Cu Chi Tunnels was also ranked in the Top 25 iconic Asian destinations by users of TripAdvisor - a popular global travel app (in 2017), Top 7 world-famous tunnel tours (2018) by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper and listed by CNN as one of the world's top underground destinations.
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In addition to experiencing the tunnels, visitors are also introduced to Hoang Cam's kitchen and enjoy boiled cassava (tapioca) with sesame salt - a familiar dish of the army and people of Cu Chi land during difficult times or greed participate in games such as dismantling guns, fake fighting battles with paint guns, shooting defense sports, etc.
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