Cu Chi Tunnels Historical Site Launches “War Zone Moon” Tour

NDO - On the evening of August 28, the Cu Chi Tunnels Historical Site organized a night tour with the theme: "War Zone Moon". Attending were representatives of Ho Chi Minh City leaders, leaders of Ho Chi Minh City Command, representatives of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and representatives of travel companies in the city.

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A representative of the Cu Chi Tunnels Historical Site said that the new tourism product is suitable to the characteristics, tasks, and actual conditions of the unit to attract more tourists to visit and experience.

The Board of Directors of the Cu Chi Tunnels Historical Site in collaboration with Tran Huu Trang Opera House has developed a night tour program at the Liberated Zone Reenactment Area with the theme "War Zone Moon" set in Phu Hiep Hamlet, Phu My Hung Commune, during the period of 1961-1964, recreating the night life and activities of Cu Chi people living in the liberated zone with 9 scenes of activities: Recreating the scene of people, guerrillas, soldiers, and youth in a hamlet of Phu My Hung Commune participating in digging tunnels, thereby forming and developing a large tunnel system with a length of more than 250km spanning 6 northern communes of Cu Chi District.

The main content of the program focuses on the scene of the Cu Chi district art troupe performing for the people, guerrillas, and soldiers, which will bring visitors unforgettable emotions when watching the performances of the artists on the field stage with simple scenery under the moonlight through the leaves and the light of kerosene lamps; resistance songs mixed with the sounds of simple musical instruments but full of revolutionary spirit, urging people's hearts, or vọng cổ and cải lương songs with profound content and the performance, honest, simple, sweet lyrics of the artists.

Reenactment of the Cu Chi district art troupe performing for the people, guerrillas and soldiers.

Scenes of people's daily activities such as: making rice cakes, making wine, milling rice, pounding rice. One of the touching scenes is the scene of an old mother tearfully seeing her son off to join the army to fight the enemy with determination and dedication to the revolutionary ideals of the previous generation, not afraid of sacrifice, ready to rush into the fire and bullets to fight to protect the homeland and village.

Tourists visit the cluster next to the Information Station.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Tan (Go Vap District) said that he was most impressed with the scene of young men and women in the hamlet planting rice with guerrillas and soldiers, singing and responding to each other under the moonlight. Through research, he learned that this was one of the rare and most beautiful peaceful scenes in Cu Chi during the period of preparation for fierce war. Even more impressive was that "the heroic images of history were recreated so vividly and attractively", Mr. Huu Tan shared.

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