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Cu Chi Tunnels
An immense network of underground tunnels used by Viet Cong guerrillas during the Vietnam War, now open to visitors to crawl through.
17 km · about 20 min drive
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Trảng Bàng
Tay Ninh, Vietnam · Asia
About Trảng Bàng
Trảng Bàng is worth a stop: 25 minutes from Gò Dầu, 17km from Cu Chi Tunnels.
Trảng Bàng is in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, with about 160,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Gò Dầu, about 12 km away.
Trảng Bàng was a town in Tây Ninh Province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam. It has a traditional artisan industry, and recently has opened an industrial zone for foreign investment. Trảng Bàng is best known for its regional delicacies: bánh canh Trảng Bàng, a kind of pork noodle soup and "Trảng Bàng dew-wettedRead more
rice paper" (Vietnamese: Bánh tráng phơi sương Trảng Bàng), served with boiled pork, local herbs and Vietnamese fish sauce.
Outside Vietnam it is most famous for the iconic and Pulitzer Prize-winning image The Terror of War, depicting a nude Phan Thi Kim Phuc (who had torn off her burning clothes to survive the attack) and other Vietnamese children fleeing an accidental napalm bombing by Republic of Vietnam airplanes on the village of Trảng Bàng alongside ARVN soldiers.
The town of Trảng Bàng dissolved on the 1st of July, 2026, as a result of the 2025 Vietnamese administrative reforms, which eliminated all district-level units excluding wards and communes. The areas once part of Trảng Bàng now consist of 4 districts: Trảng Bàng, An Tịnh, Gia Lộc — and 2 communes: Hưng Thuận, and Phước Chỉ.
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Within an hour or so of Trảng Bàng: Cu Chi Tunnels (17 km), War Remnants Museum (46 km), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (47 km).
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Trảng Bàng is in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, about 12 km from Gò Dầu.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 161,831
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Tay Ninh
- Timezone
- Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh
- Coordinates
- 11.0299, 106.3575
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Worth the detour from Trảng Bàng
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War Remnants Museum
A deeply affecting museum in Ho Chi Minh City documenting the Vietnam War primarily from the Vietnamese perspective.
46 km · about 55 min drive
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Vietnam's largest and most dynamic city with French colonial architecture, buzzing motorbike traffic, and vibrant street food culture.
47 km · about 55 min drive
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