Kazuki Matsumoto (also known as Kiki) is a famous Japanese blogger, currently living in Vietnam for 6 years. On his Youtube channel with nearly 130.000 followers, Kiki often shares videos of travel, food, and human culture experiences in regions of the S-shaped land that he has the opportunity to set foot in.
Most recently, on the occasion of welcoming two friends from Japan to travel to Vietnam, Ayumi and Fumi, Kiki took them to Cu Chi tunnels, exploring a famous historical destination about 70km from the center of Ho Chi Minh City.
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Kiki (right) brought her two Japanese friends to explore and experience the Cu Chi tunnels (Screenshot)
This place was also in the Top 25 iconic Asian destinations voted by TripAdvisor users - a reputable and popular travel application globally (in 2017), and was ranked in the top 7 road tours by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper. World famous tunnel (2018) and listed by CNN as one of the world's top underground destinations.
In Vietnam, Cu Chi Tunnels is known as the "land of steel" when it was once considered a solid base of the Military Region Party Committee and Saigon - Gia Dinh Command during the two resistance wars. The tunnel was built in 1946 and took 20 years to complete with a tunnel system up to 200 km long, 3-12m deep, with 12 floors, and can withstand the destructive power of many types of heavy bombs.
This is also the place to live, work and fight for the Cu Chi army and people, with a design including many rooms, medical tunnels, canteens, meeting rooms, food warehouses, weapons, battle drives, kitchens, garment factories, military factories, water wells, etc.
Later, some tunnels were renovated, opened wider or restored models for tourists to visit and became famous tourist destinations, attracting both domestic and international visitors to explore.
Arriving at Cu Chi Tunnels, after listening to the tour guide's explanation and watching an introductory video about this historical site, Kiki, Ayumi and Fumi appeared very excited. Among them, male tourist Fumi felt extremely excited to try "going underground" through the tiny passageway the way the Cu Chi militia used to live and fight during the resistance period.
Also here, Kiki and her two friends tried shooting real bullets for the first time. The ticket price to enter the area and experience shooting is 60.000 VND/shot (must buy at least 10 shots). Kiki boldly spent 1.2 million VND so the two friends could freely experience shooting. Although the sound from the gunshot was very loud, making Ayumi a bit scared, all three were excited about this activity.
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After that, the group of tourists was guided into the secret tunnel. The road is quite dark and small, only enough for one person to pass through, but there are many tourists experiencing it. Although they admitted that they had to stoop to move and were a little breathless at the end of this experience, all three people felt happy because they were able to discover many interesting and meaningful things in the famous tunnel area.
At the end of the journey to visit and explore the tunnels, three Japanese tourists were also impressed with a quite unique "supper" dish that they were served when they stopped to rest at the waiting house next to the shooting area. That is steamed cassava (cassava) dipped in sesame salt (also known as sesame salt).
“This is cassava, tastes a bit like potatoes but not as sweet. It seems like everything I eat now feels delicious because I'm both tired and hungry. But really, the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes," Ayumi said humorously.
It is known that after the trip to Cu Chi Tunnels, Kiki also brought two of her friends back to Ho Chi Minh City, continuing the journey to explore culture and cuisine on the S-shaped strip of land.
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