Vietnam Cultural Photo Tour

NOTE: ITINERARY MAY BE CHANGED FOR THE BETTER EXPERIENCE IF ANY

DAY 1 - 12 NOV 2025: HO CHI MINH CITY ARRIVAL

Welcome to the Vietnam Cultural Photography Tour organized by An Bui. This tour will focus on Saigon Photo Tour, Mekong Photo Tour, Hanoi Photo Tour and Ha Giang Photo Tour.

I will pick you up at the Ho Chi Minh City Airport, transfer to a hotel and relax after a long flight to Vietnam.

You can arrive in Ho Chi Minh City on any flight schedule time on this day, or you can arrive a 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 exchanges as well as card accepting in most of the restaurants or shops in the city center. Relax to prepare for our trip soon to begin the next day.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

DAY 2 - 13 NOV 2025: HO CHI MINH / MOC HOA

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning visits the temple and enjoy Ao Dai Photo Tour with the lady in traditional dress of Vietnam in the temple (Model setup for photography). Ao Dai is the traditional costume in Vietnam, and the people normally wear ao dai in the most important festivals in Vietnam such as Tet Holidays or their wedding day. Photography with a lady in ao dai is suitable in the location of a temple, pagoda or a place with ancient architecture due to it is a native culture of Vietnamese people. We will photograph the model wearing the ao dai in Ho Chi Minh City, with the support of our local photographer for her posing.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Moc Hoa with 3 hours of driving. Moc Hoa is a rural place in the Mekong Delta with basic travel service. We will stay overnight and have a meal at the local hotel there. The room is clean with basic facility, toilet with hot water. There are not many choices for hotels in this place, and this hotel is near our shooting place.

Dinner at a local restaurant in Moc Hoa.

Overnight at a hotel in Moc Hoa (Basic accommodations).

DAY 3 - 14 NOV 2025: MOC HOA / CHAU DOC

Enjoy sunrise photography with the water lily flowers (Model setup for photography). The main blossom season of water lilies is from Sep to Dec, so with this period we have a chance to shoot the activities of people transporting flowers on the rowing boats. Our local photographer will arrange a boat full of water lily flowers, then we can shoot from a good view in the morning. And of course this shooting setup is most ideal for drone photography, but shooting by camera is also good too.

Back to the hotel for breakfast.

Morning transfer to Chau Doc with 4 hours of driving.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon enjoy photography with the fishermen throwing the fishing net (Model setup for photography). We will enjoy photographing the fishermen throwing fishing nets to the river with the support of posing from our local photographer. The shooting place is very convenient. We stand on the bridge and shoot the fishermen right below us, it looks like using a drone for this setup.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Chau Doc.

DAY 4 - 15 NOV 2025: CHAU DOC / RACH GIA

Enjoy sunrise photography with the palm trees in the rice paddy fields.

Back to the hotel for breakfast.

Enjoy morning photography with cow racing in Mekong Delta (Model setup for photography). Cow Racing is one of the attractive activities of the Khmer minority people living in Chau Doc, yearly before the new crops, people often celebrate the cow racing festival, then raise for the new successful crop. This time we set up a private cow race for our shooting. One cow driver will control 2 cows to run in the path with water. Each time 2 drivers will challenge to run, and we are mainly shooting in the arrival point with the most active of 2 drivers and cows.

Enjoy portrait photography with the monk in the Khmer Pagoda (Model setup for photography). The photograph in the Khmer pagoda, depending on the actual situation, we can shoot the monk or Khmer children around the pagoda as portrait photography.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Rach Gia with 4 hours of driving.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Rach Gia.

DAY 5 - 16 NOV 2025: RACH GIA / TRA VINH

Breakfast at a hotel.

Morning enjoys photography with drying fish in Rach Gia (Setup for photography). A long time ago, Rach Gia was very famous for making dried fish, now there are some factories of drying fish. With the sun and shadow the photo of drying fish is really nice.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Tra Vinh with 5 hours of driving.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Tra Vinh. 

DAY 6 - 17 NOV 2025: TRA VINH / HO CHI MINH CITY

Early morning enjoy photography at the Khmer pagoda with Khmer people (Model setup for photography)

Breakfast at the hotel.

Then enjoys photography in the handicraft village of mending the fishing net (Model setup for photography). Mending the fishing net in Tra Vinh was the major handicraft job in the past. Now there are not as many factories that have mended the fishing net as before but still have them available. We will visit one factory of fishing net mending like this and enjoy photography here with the support of our local professional photographer to arrange the background and concept to create art photos with the model as local workers.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Ho Chi Minh City with 3 hours of driving.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.

DAY 7 - 18 NOV 2025: HO CHI MINH CITY / PHAN RANG

Breakfast at a hotel.

Morning transfer to Phan Rang with 6 hours of driving.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon enjoy photography at the sand dunes with the Cham minority people (Model setup for photography). One of the best places for art photography I think is the sand dunes in Phan Rang. This place has nice lightning year-round, less rain and the shape of the dunes is nice both the view on sunrise and sunset. With the best support of our local photographer, we will enjoy photography in the sand dunes with minority models walking in the sand. Before this was the place of minority people and they often walked through the dunes to the town and turned back home.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Phan Rang.

DAY 8 - 19 NOV 2025: PHAN RANG

Enjoy sunrise photography at the seascape of Phan Rang.

Back to hotel for breakfast.

Morning visit the craft village of making pottery of the Cham People. Enjoy photography at the pottery village (Model setup for photography)

Lunch at local restaurant.

Afternoon visit the sheep farm of Cham People, enjoy photography at the sheep farm (Model setup for photography).

Diner at local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Phan Rang.

DAY 9 - 20 NOV 2025: PHAN RANG / HANOl

Breakfast at a hotel.

Morning enjoys portrait photography in Phan Rang with the elderly (Model setup for photography). The scars on an elderly face are very clear and beautiful for photography. If luckily, we can visit the 100-year-old man, he will pose for us for photography with the support of our local photographer.

Morning transfer to the airport of Nha Trang for local flight to Hanoi.

Lunch at local restaurant

Arrival in Hanoi in the late afternoon.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Hanoi.

DAY 10 - 21 NOV 2025 DEC 2024: HANOI / HA GIANG

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning visit Duong Lam ancient village with 2 hours of driving. Enjoy photography with the elderly in the old house of Duong Lam (Model setup for photography)

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Ha Giang with 5 hours of driving.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Ha Giang.

DAY 11 - 22 NOV 2025: HA GIANG / DONG VAN

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning transfer to Dong Van with 4 hours of driving, and most of the interesting scenery is on the way from Ha Giang to Dong Van.

Photo stops at Bac Sum Slope, Quan Ba Heaven Gate.

Morning visit the Hmong village of weaving linen in the traditional way (Model setup for photography).

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon visit a village of HMong people with beautiful flowers surrounding the small village. Enjoy photography with Hmong children with flowers (Model setup for photography).

Enjoy sunset photography at Tham Ma Slope. It would be nice with photography of long exposure for the car light on the streets of the hills.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Dong Van.

DAY 12 - 23 NOV 2025 (SUNDAY): DONG VAN

Early morning visit the bustling weekly market of the minority people in Dong Van.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning visit the remote and charming Hmong village in Dong Van. We need to walk about 1 km to get to the village. This rural village is nice, quiet and charming. Enjoy photography with Hmong people at the ancient house (Model setup for photography).

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon visit the Vuong Palace of Dong Van, one of the best architecture in the rocky mountain Dong Van. Enjoy photography with the Hmong people at the Vuong Palace (Model setup for photography).

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Dong Van.

DAY 13 - 24 NOV 2025: DONG VAN / HA GIANG

Enjoy sunrise photography at Ma Pi Leng Pass with the view of Nho Que river.

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning explore the people and cultures of the village of LoLo people (Model setup for photography).

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon transfer to Ha Giang with 4.5 hours of driving.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight at a hotel in Ha Giang.

DAY 14 - 25 NOV 2025: HA GIANG / HANOI

Breakfast at the hotel.

Morning transfer to Hanoi with 6 hours of driving.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Arrival in Hanoi in the afternoon.

Visit train street and Hoan Kiem lake in the afternoon for street photography.

Dinner at local restaurant

Overnight at a hotel in Hanoi.

DAY 15 - 26 NOV 2025: HANOI DEPARTURE

Breakfast at a hotel.

Morning transfer to the airport for your next destination. End of service.