DMZ deluxe tour from Hue with Khe Sanh combat base

Our driver will pick you up from the hotel in Hue city and drive to Dong Ha City (around 70km from Hue) to get to Dong Ha city to do the DMZ tour.

08:30: We arrive Dong Ha town, the closest major city to the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone, the area around the former border between North and South Vietnam.

The first destination in this tour is Rockpile: a memorial site in DMZ tour. As the name says, it is a pile of rock in the middle of a flat area with cliffs going straight up to the 240-meter-high summit. It was built by the French as the West-East corridor Highway 9 follows along the demilitarized zone, the boundary between north and south. Its location on the northern edge of South Vietnam takes a strategic importance to U.S army to stop the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply lines. Days after days by weather, this location cannot be remained their initial nature.

Next, we move to Dakrong Bridge. Taking about 40 mins of driving, we will see Dakrong bridge. During the war, the bridge was the essential access point to the trail and also being bombed and rebuilt repeatedly throughout the conflicts. Although there is nothing relating too much to the Vietnam War, it’s a marker point of the former Ho Chi Minh Trail.

After visiting the bridge, we headed to Khe Sanh Combat Base, a large combat base attacked by a large force of the North Vietnamese Army in early 1968. Khe Sanh was built on a hilltop located 10 km from the Laotian border was the westernmost in a line of Allied defenses south of the DMZ designed to prevent communist infiltration into South Vietnam.

Then, you have lunch (with your own budget)

Get on the car we will come back in Hue city.

Tour DMZ deluxe tour from Hue with Khe Sanh combat base ends at a hotel in Hue.

Thank you and see you again on other tours: Hue city tour one day by car and Dragon boat, Phong Nha daily tour from Hue with Elephant Travel, Hoi An city tour half day from Danang…