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	Củ Chi tunnels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tunnels of Củ Chi are an immense network of connecting underground tunnels located in the Củ Chi district of Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country.
		The Củ Chi tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam base of operations for the Tết Offensive in 1968.
		The tunnels were used by NLF guerrillas as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communication and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters for numerous guerrilla fighters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cu_Chi_tunnels (1665 words)

	:: Vietnamtourism.gov.vn ::Cu Chi Tunnels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cu Chi Tunnels are located approximately 70km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City centre in Cu Chi Rural District.
		Visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels provides a better understanding of the prolonged resistance war of the Vietnamese people and also of the persistent and clever character of the Vietnamese nation.
		But visitors have it easier: those re-constructed tunnels give the flavour of the tunnels but not the claustrophobia and the sacrifice of the estimated 18,000 who served their silent and unseen war there with only around one-third surviving, the rest casualties of American assaults, snakes, rats and insects.
	www.vietnam-tourism.com /vietnam_gov/e_pages/Dulich/touspot/cuchi.asp (1018 words)

	Vietnam Sightseeing - Cu Chi Tunnel
		The Cu Chi tunnels, which were more than 250 km long and three levels deep, were important for the Viet Cong victory over the Americans as they allowed the Viet Cong to control a large rural area around Sai Gon.
		The district of Cu Chi was the most bombed shelled, gassed, defoliated, and generally devastated area in the history of warfare.
		They would be stripped down outside, taken into the tunnels and assembled during the day for maintenance, stripped again, and then taken back through the tunnels to be reassembled in a new location outside and used the next night.
	www.discover-vietnam.com /html/sightseeing_cuchi_tunnel.htm (261 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Cu Chi: The underground war
		This was the reality of warfare in the tunnels of Cu Chi, the Viet Cong's underground fortress dug beneath the jungles of South Vietnam.
		At its peak the Cu Chi tunnel network covered some 250 kilometres - from the Cambodian border in the west to the outskirts of what was then Saigon.
		Kitchens to supply the tunnels' occupants with food were always built near the surface, but with long chimneys carved out through the ground to diffuse the smoke from the cooking fires and release it at a distance.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/720577.stm (781 words)

	Cu-Chi Tunnels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is the site of the Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War.
		The Cu Chi tunnels, a 75-mile-long underground maze where thousands of fighters and villagers could hide, are at the top of the list of tourist spots for Ho Chi Minh City, 45 miles to the southeast.
		When the war was over, the people of Cu Chi went to work on the tunnels once again, widening parts of them and adding steps and lighting so that foreign tourists could wriggle in for a look.
	www.mishalov.com /Vietnam_Cu-Chi.html (1106 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: Cu Chi - Tunnels and underground warfare
		What makes the tunnels even more amazing is that they were dug with hand tools and yet had primitive technologies like underwater trap doors and vents to disperse cooking smoke.
		Special volunteer soldiers selected for their bravery were used as “tunnel rats”, armed with only a knife and a pistol for hand to hand combat.
		Less than half of the 16,000 people who fought in the tunnels survived and thousands of their relatives were killed in the area.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/asia/vietnam/cu_cui.php (531 words)

	War in the Villages and Tunnels
		The Cu Chi area and nearby became the most heavily bombed, gassed, and defoliated area in the history of combat.
		As BBC investigative reporters, Mangold and Penycate tell the story of Cu Chi in such detail that one is immediately struck by the resolve of Vietnamese villagers to survive.
		There were tunnels in and around the area, and during Tet 1968 the village was generally loyal to the VC.
	www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/WarInTheVillagesAndTunnels.html (2071 words)

	Vietnam-CuChiTunnels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Another easy trip from Ho Chi Minh City is a visit to the Cu Chi Tunnels, located 75km from the city, which can be visited on a half day trip (US$4) or on a full day trip which includes the Cao Dai Holy See at Tay Ninh in the morning (US$7-8).
		The tunnels were used by the Viet Cong (South Vietnamese Communists who wore the peasant garb of fl pyjamas which made then indistinguishable from local farmers) as a base for fierce fighting.
		The tunnels consist of three levels and were dug out of hard, red clay and were surrounded by booby traps.
	www.arikah.net /TourismVietnam-TravelGuide/Vietnam-CuChiTunnels (339 words)

	The Cu Chi Tunnels: Vietnam's Deep, Dark Past
		Whatever your take may be on the Vietnam War (or the American War, as the Vietnamese call it) and the causes for which it was fought, you have to credit the VC soldiers for their pluck and valor: At least 45,000 Vietnamese men and women died defending the Cu Chi tunnels.
		The tunnels were a seemingly endless, ingeniously disguised web of guerrilla fortifications reaching from the outskirts of Saigon to the Cambodian border, linking hamlets, villages and various VC support bases.
		Outside the gate to the tunnels, refreshment and souvenir kiosks cater to tourists, hawking everything from snake wine (rice liqueur marinating baby cobras and green snakes in bottles whose labels promise potent curative powers) to ballpoint pens made from bullets.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/02/AR2005041501925_pf.html (1168 words)

	Cu Chi Tunnels - Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam travel and tourism information by Vietnam Trip .com
		The Cu Chi Tunnels were pivotal to the Communist's victory over the Americans and the South Vietnamese Armies as they allowed the Viet Cong to control a large rural area around Saigon.
		The area of Cu Chi was one of the most pro-communist districts in the far south; indeed the VC used the tunnels to organize the 1968 Tet Offensive.
		It was this persistent bombing campaign that drove many of the residents of Cu Chi together with the Viet Cong underground.
	www.vietnamtrip.com /cu_chi_tunnels.html (365 words)

	The Cu Chi Tunnels -- film/video
		When the Americans began bombing the villages of Cu Chi, the survivors went underground where they remained for the duration of the war.
		The secret tunnels, which joined village to village and often pass beneath American bases, were not only fortifications for Viet Cong guerillas, but were also the center of community life.
		The Cu Chi Tunnels is the story of life underground told by the people who lived the experience.
	www.creativehat.com /cuchi.htm (488 words)

	Amazon.com: The Tunnels of Cu Chi: Books: T. Mangold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I purchased "Tunnels" to serve as historical background reading for a recent trip to Cu Chi, and was suprised to find such an informative source.
		Aside from strictly discussing the tunnels, the authors cover the whole of Cu Chi Province and its seemingly everpresent role in the numerous Indochina wars.
		Being close to Saigon, Cu Chi was a major hub for NLF activity and for the first years of the Second Indochina war, served as a nearly impenatarble Viet Cong stronghold.
	www.amazon.com /Tunnels-Cu-Chi-T-Mangold/dp/0425089517 (1953 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Lim: Cu Chi tunnels
		Saigon), this elaborate network of tunnels covering an area of approximately 250 kilometers hid a sprawling city underground that served as sanctuary for the Viet Congs (Armed Forces of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War.
		The Cu Chi tunnels were originally built in the 1940s to resist the French occupation but they evolved into an elaborate three-level underground city into which the Viet Congs vanished to the bafflement of the Americans during the Vietnam War.
		To visit these tunnels and to see how a people could live through such sacrifice for 21 years will make you understand how the Vietnamese, against all odds, were able in the end, to make the American forces withdraw from Vietnam.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/03/02/oped/melanie.t..lim.html (520 words)

	Vietnam Travel Vignettes -->
		The Cu Chi tunnels of Vietnam are one of those horrible remnants of a horrible war that most folks would probably rather forget.
		The Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Saigon...
		Even with the tunnels widened it was a squeeze, especially one serpentine stretch at the second level where we had to drop to our knees and crawl while the ceiling scraped our spines.
	www.cardozohirsch.com /PAGE0003.htm (873 words)

	Photos of Cu Chi Tunnels - Vietnam: Album 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The tunnels were first built and used by the Viet Minh and gave a peasant army an efficient method of transportation against a high-tech enemy.
		The Cu Chi area was know as The Iron Triangle and US and Australian troops tried to pacify it with napalm defoliation, excavation and burning.
		The VC managed to survive in the tunnels because they were up to three or four levels deep.
	www.vietnam-in-pictures.com /cuchi2/index.htm (148 words)

	Cu Chi Tunnels
		Cu Chi was a major irritation to U.S. forces during the war.
		More than 150 miles of tunnels were constructed over a 10 year period on three levels (some up to 23 feet deep), creating an underground complex for 16,000 guerilla fighters just 22 miles outside Saigon.
		This chamber, in the first of three levels of tunnels, would have been used to plan strategy.
	www.salemstate.edu /imc/vietnam/cu_chi.html (486 words)

	The Cu Chi Tunnels - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
		The Cu Chi Tunnels became legendary during the VN War for giving the VC control of a large rural area this close to Saigon.
		The tunnels made it possible for the VC to communicate and coordinate with each other, even though there were ARVN and American units isolating them from each other.
		During the war, Cu Chi became probably the most bombed, shelled, gassed, defoliated, and generally devastated AO in the country.
	www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?t=2839 (2058 words)

	Saigon - HO Chi Minh Tours & Travel Information ( Dragon Travel Vietnam )
		The Cu Chi Tunnels are located approximately 30 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City in Cu Chi district.
		However, parts of the tunnels have been modified to accommodate visitorsThe upper soil layer is between 3 to 4 m thick and can support the weight of a 50-ton tank and the damage of light cannons and bombs.
		The Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum was set up as the result of a decision made by the City’s People's Committee in September 1987, but it was not officially opened until 1991.On the first and second floors, there are exhibits of works by Vietnamese and foreign artists.
	www.optiontours.com /v_facts9.html (912 words)

	Cu Chi Tunnels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He was a reserve officer of the Vietnamese Army and well versed in the history of the tunnels.
		Part of the tunnels have been conditioned to allow for tourist from Europe and the US to enter, because the original tunnels are rather difficult to get into for westerners.
		However, most of the tunnels have been left in the original form which means that you have to crawl in order to get around.This is a rather unique experience.
	home.worldonline.dk /torget/viet1.htm (548 words)

	Vietnam travel, vietnam tour, vietnam travel agent, vietnam destination, hochiminh cu chi, cuchi hochiminh, hochiminh ...
		The Cu Chi tunnels are located in Tay Ninh province next to the Saigon River, about half-way between Ho Chi Minh City and the Cao Dai Holy See – the journey usually takes around 1½ hrs from either end, depending on the traffic.
		The original tunnels were dug long ago by the Viet Minh to provide hiding places from which to attack French soldiers.
		The tunnel entrances, exits, ventilation pipes, chimneys, and waste channels were all ingeniously camouflaged and guarded by an array of vicious booby traps designed to maim intruders (there are many examples in the War Remnants Museum).
	www.haivenu-vietnam.com /des-saigon-cu-chi.htm (451 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cu Chi Tunnels: Video: Mickey Grant,former Viet Cong of Cu Chi Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Cu Chi Tunnels is a disquieting film to watch if you were a direct enemy of these people.
		First, the short, dramatized tunnel cave-in scenes were pretty cheesy, especially when it became obvious that despite fantastic camera angles and use of motion that there was no actual collapse.
		I realize that this is not a documentary about the tunnels themselves, per se; but mostly about the lives, deaths, and sacrifices made by the Vietnamese people of Cu Chi district.
	www.amazon.com /Cu-Chi-Tunnels-Mickey-Grant/dp/1930049005 (1238 words)

	Vietnam destinations Cu Chi tunnels, Cao Dai temple, tunnels tours, weather, maps, pictures, operators, company! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cu chi district is well-known nationwide as the base where the Vietnamese mounted their operations of the Tet Offensive in 1968.The tunnels are between 0.4 to 1m wide, just enough for a person to walk along by bending or dragging.
		The upper soil layer is between 3 to 5m thick and can support the weight of a 60-ton tank and the damage of light cannons and bombs.
		Firstly, the French then the Americans were baffled as to where they melted to, presuming, that it was somewhere under cover of the night in the Mekong delta.
	www.smile.com.vn /vietnam_destinations/vietnam_destinations_travel_tours_tay_ninh_cu_chi_cao_dai.htm (1250 words)

	Saigon and the Cu Chi Tunnels Travelogue \| TrekEarth
		We were joined by an American Veteran and his Vietnamese friend on a discovery holiday when we went to visit the Cu CHi tunnels.
		He sat with dignity through a propaganda film from the 70's about the tunnels that talked about the "American Killer Heroes' but he was clearly full of conflicting emotion as we walked around the site.
		Although, on a street level I don't think that people make a North / South distinction, those that fought for the South were separated from their families after the war and put in 're-education' camps and are still unable to do official jobs today.
	www.trekearth.com /trip.php?tid=580&display=full (383 words)

	Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - VirtualTourist.com
		Cu Chi was one of the most devastated areas of Vietnamduring the war in the 1960s, and is home to over 200km of underground tunnels.
		The tunnels were originally built in the 1940s during the war against the French, but were greatly expanded during the 1960s, to the point of stretching from HCMC all the way to the Cambodian border.
		As the tunnels got smaller and smaller, we were reduced to crawling on hands and knees.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Vietnam/Thanh_Pho_Ho_Chi_Minh/Ho_Chi_Minh_City-1470720/Things_To_Do-Ho_Chi_Minh_City-Out_of_Saigon_Cu_Chi_Tunnels-BR-1.html (2039 words)

	Cu Chi Tunnels - Wikitravel
		The Cu Chi Tunnels are an elaborate underground community made up of 250km of tunnels and chambers in the Vietnamese town of Cu Chi.
		The tunnels were dug with bare hands or very simple tools during the French occupation in 1940s, and further expanded during the American War in the 1960s.
		Despite all the bombings in their town, the Cu Chi people were able to continue their lives beneath the soil.
	wikitravel.org /en/Cu_Chi_Tunnels (221 words)

	Kelly and Quang's Global Roam: Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam
		We were in Cu Chi to visit a series of underground tunnels leftover from the Vietnam War.
		The tunnels were constructed by a group of guerrilla fighters that sided with the North Vietnamese during the war.
		The tunnel doors were concealed with twigs and leaves and were actually hard to find once the top was in place.
	www.gonomad.com /globalroam/2006/03/cu-chi-tunnels-vietnam.html (502 words)

	Photos of Cu Chi Tunnels - Vietnam: Album 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Cu Chi area could be described as a giant killing field.
		VC insurgents in Saigon were often identified by the white marks of these distinctive sandals against sun darkened feet.
		Visitors to Cu Chi have an opportunity to go down into a brief section of tunnel.
	www.vietnam-in-pictures.com /cuchi3/index.htm (151 words)

	Cu Chi Tunnels - The Amazing Adventures of Action Kim - BootsnAll Travelogues
		The tunnels were 80 cm wide by 1.5 meters high.
		The tunnels were built over 20 years of warfare witht he occupying French.
		Their job was to go into a dark network of booby trapped tunnels that they did not know how to navigate and be attacked by scorprions and cobras let loose by the VC as well as engage in hand to hand combat of the VC themselves.
	tblogs.bootsnall.com /kim/archives/010214.shtml (746 words)

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