NOTE: ITINERARY MAY BE CHANGED FOR THE BETTER EXPERIENCE IF ANY
DAY 1 - 30 AUG 2024: HO CHI MINH CITY ARRIVAL
Welcome to the Best Vietnam Photography Tour organized by An Bui. I will pick you up at the Ho Chi Minh City Airport, transfer to hotel and relax after long flight to Vietnam. You can arrive in Ho Chi Minh City in any flight schedule time on this day, or you can arrive few days before the trip to explore the city, then join with us on this day. Ho Chi Minh is the biggest and modern city in Vietnam, you can find good travel service here. Moreover, there are many international ATM or money exchange as well as card accepting in most of the restaurant or shop in the city center. Relax to prepare our trip soon to begin in next day.
Dinner at local restaurant.
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
DAY 2 - 31 AUG 2024: HO CHI MINH CITY / MOC HOA
Breakfast at hotel
Begin of the tour is morning enjoys photography with the lady in Ao Dai in Ho Chi Minh City (Setup for photography). The Ao Dai is the traditional dress of Vietnam. This shooting concept is really suitable with the pagoda or antique or rural places. This shooting section is light, fun and just a warm up for our long day photo tour.
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoon transfer to Moc Hoa with 3 hours of driving. Moc Hoa is a rural destination near the border of Cambodia. The travel service in Moc Hoa is just basic but this place is very famous for photography of water lily flowers in Vietnam. During Aug to Nov is the season of water lily flowers. Normally local farmer harvests them in the early morning, then sell it to the market. We will enjoy photography of the water lily flower in the next early morning.
Dinner at hotel restaurant.
Overnight at a hotel in Moc Hoa. Accommodation basic in the rural destination.
DAY 3 - 1 SEP 2024: MOC HOA / CHAU DOC
Enjoy morning photography with the water lily flower and the local farmers (Model setup for photography). This early morning, we will transfer by boat about 20 minutes to get to the shooting point on land with all of the water. Enjoy water lily flower rowing on the water and setup for art photography with water lily flowers on the water.
Back to hotel for breakfast.
Morning transfer to Chau Doc with 4 hours of driving. Chau Doc is also the destination near the border or Cambodia. The cultures of local people in Chau Doc affected by Khmer people culture, so you can easily see the different of it.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon enjoy photography with the fishermen (Model setup for photography). We will stand on the bridge to shoot with the fishermen throwing the fishing net in the river during the late afternoon, surrounding the flooding area of the rice fields.
Dinner at hotel restaurant
Overnight at a hotel in Chau Doc.
DAY 4 - 2 SEP 2024: CHAU DOC / BAC LIEU
Early morning, enjoy sunrise photography with the palm trees inside the rice paddy field. If lucky by the weather or seasonal, the rice field is all the water, so the reflection would be nice.
Back to hotel for breakfast.
Morning enjoys photography with the cow racing (Model setup for photography). The Khmer people in this area often celebrate cow racing for a successful new crop. Normally there is 4 couple going racing. The cow drivers are challenge to each other how to control the cow as well as possible.
After that, visit the Khmer pagoda and enjoy morning photography (Model setup for photography)
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoon transfer to Bac Lieu with 5 hours of driving,
Dinner at local restaurant
Overnight at hotel in Bac Lieu
DAY 5 - 3 SEP 2024: BAC LIEU / HO CHI MINH CITY
Enjoy sunrise at the wind electricity farm in the coastal of Bac Lieu.
Back to hotel for breakfast.
Morning visits the handicraft village of mending fishing nets in Bac Lieu (Model setup for photography). Bac Lieu is the destination famous for fishing in Mekong Delta for a long time ago. Then the handicraft of fishing mending is developed from that period. Today it is not much still alive in some small village. That is the blue fishing net, we will enjoy the photography with the worker mending the net surrounded by blue fishing net.
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoon transfer to Ho Chi Minh city with 5 hours of driving
Arriving Ho Chi Minh City in the late afternoon
Dinner at local restaurant
Overnight at hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
DAY 6 - 4 SEP 2024: HO CHI MINH CITY / HANOI
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer to the airport for a morning flight to Hanoi.
Lunch at local restaurant
Hanoi surrounding there are a lot of handicraft village, they are still remaining the job and develop until now. I can see now in Vietnam mostly the handicraft village concentrate surround Hanoi inside the small village such as incense making village, conical hat making village, fishing bamboo trap making village and soya sauce making village.
Afternoon visit handicraft village making incense (Model setup for photography).
Then transfer to visit handicraft village of making conical hat (Model setup for photography).
Afternoon transfer back to Hanoi.
Dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight at a hotel in Hanoi.
DAY 7 - 5 SEP 2024: HANOI HANDICRAFT VILLAGE / LANG SON
Breakfast at hotel
Morning visit handicraft village of making bamboo fishing trap with 1.5 hour of driving (Model setup for photography)
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoon enjoy photography at the handicraft village of making soya sauce (Model setup for photography)
Transfer to Lang Son with 3 hours of driving
Dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight at a hotel in Lang Son.
DAY 8 - 6 SEP 2024: LANG SON / CAO BANG (BAN GIOC)
Breakfast at hotel.
Morning transfer to Ban Gioc with 5 hours of driving.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon visit rice valley of Phong Nam (Model setup for Photography)
Enjoy the sunset at Phong Nam valley of rice field surrounded by the river and mountains.
Dinner at local restaurant.
Overnight at hotel in Ban Gioc.
DAY 9 - 7 SEP 2024: CAO BANG (BAN GIOC)
4 AM depart to climb Ngoc Con Peak after about 45 minutes of trekking. To visit that shooting place it requires a normal fitness to trek to the shooting place in the hill. Otherwise, you can have a rest and join our next shooting section.
Enjoy the sunrise from Ngoc Con Peak with the view of the rice field surrounded by the river and mountains.
Back to hotel for breakfast
Morning transfer to visit Ban Viet Lake in Cao Bang.
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoon visit and enjoy sunset at Nui Mat Than (the god's eye mountain) surrounding by a green valley of grass.
Dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight at a hotel in Ban Gioc.
DAY 10 - 8 SEP 2024: CAO BANG (BAN GIOC) / BAC SON
Enjoy sunrise photography at Phong Nam (Model setup for Photography). Today we get up early to transfer to this shooting point with nice view without trekking.
Back to hotel for breakfast
Morning enjoys photography at Ban Gioc Waterfalls. This is the most beautiful waterfall in Vietnam.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon transfer to Bac Son with 5.5 hours of driving. Bac Son is the rural place. We will stay overnight at the homestay of the minority village of Bac Son.
Dinner at local restaurant in Bac Son.
Overnight at basic hotel in Bac Son (Basic accommodation).
DAY 11 - 9 SEP 2024: BAC SON / HANOI
Early in morning departs to climb the Na Lay peak to admire the view of Bac Son rice valley at sunrise after about 1 hour of trekking. To get this shooting place it required the normal fitness. Otherwise, you can have a rest and join our next shooting section.
Back to hotel for breakfast.
Morning visits the minority village of Quynh Son.
Lunch at minority village of Quynh Son.
Afternoon transfer to Hanoi with 3.5 hours of driving.
Enjoy sunset photography at the west lake of Hanoi.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
DAY 12 - 10 SEP 2024: HANOI / MU CANG CHAI
Breakfast at hotel.
Morning departs to Mu Cang Chai with 7 hours of driving. The traffic and road condition is normally good, we will have several photo stops on the way.
Lunch at local restaurant
Afternoons enjoy photography with the hill of rice terrace.
Dinner at homestay in Mu Cang Chai.
Overnight at homestay in Mu Cang Chai (Basic accommodation).
DAY 13 - 11 SEP 2024: MU CANG CHAI
Enjoy sunrise photography at the rice terrace in Mu Cang Chai (Enjoy motorbikes to get to the shooting place). Currently using motorbike is the most convenient way to get the shooting place in the top of the rice terrace hill. The path is narrow and quite slope, so motorbike is the best convenient now. After experience by the motorbike to the top of the rice terrace hill, you will admire one of the biggest view of rice field in Vietnam.
Back to homestay for breakfast.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon visiting minority village with the corn house (Model setup for photography).
Enjoy sunset at Mu Cang Chai rice terrace (Enjoy motorbikes to get to the shooting place again).
Dinner at homestay in Mu Cang Chai.
Overnight at homestay in Mu Cang Chai (Basic accommodation).
DAY 14 - 12 SEP 2024: MU CANG CHAI / PHU THO
Enjoy sunrise photography at the rice terrace in Mu Cang Chai with another place (Enjoy motorbikes to get to the shooting place).
Breakfast at homestay.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Afternoon transfer to Phu Tho with 5 hours of driving.
Dinner at local restaurant.
Overnight at hotel in Phu Tho.
DAY 15 - 13 SEP 2024: PHU THO / HANOI / DEPARTURES
Early morning transfer to enjoy sunrise photography at the tea hill of Phu Tho. Due to near the shooting place for sunrise, there is no good hotel, so today we will depart early in the morning to get the shooting place in the tea hill of Phu Tho. The car can arrive near there, then we will need to trek about 500 meters up to the tea hill with easy walking.
Breakfast at local restaurant.
After that, enjoy photography of the minority at the tea hill (Model setup for photography).
Morning transfer to Hanoi with 3 hours of driving.
Free at leisure until time transfer to Hanoi airport for your next destination.
Otherwise, if you would like to extend your travel, I can drop you at your hotel in Hanoi.
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