The beautiful city with secret underground tunnels now a haven for dark tourism

Around 1.5 million people visit the morbid Cu Chi tunnels every year (Image: Getty) Hundreds of thousands of British tourists flock to Vietnam every year, from luxurious seaside resorts to backpacking hotels. However, many are also coming to experience a morbid destination.

The most popular trip outside of the Vietnamese mega-city of Ho Chi Minh City is to the Cu Chi tunnel complex, which has found a new life as a dark tourism destination. Around 1.5 million people visit the morbid Cu Chi tunnels every year.

Visitors get the chance to see what life was like for Vietnamese villagers who had to literally dig themselves out of the range of US military shelling. Originally built in the late 1940s during the anti-French resistance campaign, the tunnels were expanded during the US war in the Southeast Asian country . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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