The Rừng Sác base
For the rebuilt special-forces camp in this mangrove, once you are on the forest road.
You walk or take a canoe into the rebuilt camp. Observation posts, a military workshop, an information house, hideouts, a medical station, a supply house, and figures of Unit 10, including the raid on the Nhà Bè oil depot, are on the ground. The national historic listing is 2004. The region was used in the wars against France and the United States. Defoliant was sprayed many times from 1964 to 1972, and more than 80% of the old mangrove died.
Resolution 09/2020/NQ-HĐND, effective 1 January 2021, sets an adult fee of 35,000 VND a visit, domestic and foreign. Free: older people, disabled people, the armed forces, people with revolutionary merit, the veterans’ association, poor households, and children under 7. Half price: children from 7 to under 16, pupils, and students. Collection is assigned to the Củ Chi tunnels historic site. The same 35,000 VND is also given for the combat zone. A canoe is 600,000 VND a turn, round trip. The fee resolution does not mention a canoe.
The Sac Forest gate is 7:30–17:30. That is not Vàm Sát’s 8:00–17:00. Nearly 400 battles and 860 dead are named, and also thousands of large and small battles. Unit 10 and the years 1966 to 30 April 1975 are the history. The old address is đường Rừng Sác in xã Long Hòa, now part of xã Cần Giờ.
