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Mu Cang Chai Rice Terraces Photo Tour From Hanoi

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

DAY 1: HANOI / MU CANG CHAI

The 4 day photo tour to Mu Cang Chai Rice Terraces will start from Hanoi. We will pick you up at your hotel.

Morning transfer from Hanoi to Mu Cang Chai with 6 hours of driving.

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoons enjoy photography with the hill of the rice terrace.

Dinner at homestay in Mu Cang Chai.

Overnight at homestay in Mu Cang Chai (Basic accommodation).

DAY 2: MU CANG CHAI

Enjoy sunrise photography at the Mu Cang Chai Rice Terraces (Enjoy motorbikes to get to the shooting place). Currently using a motorbike is the most convenient way to get to the shooting place at the top of the rice terrace hill. The path is narrow and has a quiet slope, so motorbikes are the most convenient now. After experiencing the motorbike to the top of the rice terrace hill, you will admire one of the biggest views of the rice field in Vietnam.

Back to homestay for breakfast.
Lunch at a 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 3: MU CANG CHAI

Today we will visit other Mu Cang Chai Rice Terraces or visit the previous places for different weather conditions.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner at homestay Mu Cang Chai.

Overnight at homestay in Mu Cang Chai (Basic accommodation).

DAY 4: MU CANG CHAI / HANOI

Enjoy morning photography at the Mu Cang Chai Rice Terraces with another place.

Breakfast at a local restaurant.

Morning transfer to Hanoi with 7 hours of driving.

Lunch at a local restaurant.
Arrival Hanoi in the afternoon. Transfering you to your hotel or Hanoi airport for your next destination.

End of service.

Private photo tour

Departure

Destination: Mu Cang Chai
Solo photographer: 1923 USD
Private group 2-3 people: 990 USD per person
Private group 4-6 people: 675 USD per person

ACTIVITIES

Tour leading by experience photo tour guide in Vietnam.
Photo tour features of landscape photography and minority people

FITNESS

Moderate walks
Easy walking mostly
Motorbike taxi

WHAT TO BRING

Lens focal ideal from 24-200 mm.
Mostly the weather is cold, around 20 - 25 c degrees.
Reliable shoes or slippers

CONTACT

Vietnam photo tours organizer.
Photo Tour Leader at Viet Ventures travel agency.
victorbuian@gmail.com
Hotline: Mobile / WhatsApp: +84908618571

PAYMENT TERMS

Full payment for booking confirmation.
Contact me for the special arrangement.

INCLUDING

Vietnam photo tours leader service by local photography guide
Double room accommodation at good hotel. Single rooming available for 90 USD supplement
Private transportation as itinerary
Meals with Vietnamese food as itinerary at local restaurant
Visiting fees as itinerary
Bottle of water in car
VAT

EXCLUDING

Visa to Vietnam
Personal expenses
Return international airline ticket.
Other services not mentioned in the program.
Single rooming available for 90 USD supplement

Vietnam photo tours

Rice Terrace Photo Tour Vietnam

Seasonal of rice terrace photography in Vietnam

Every year, during Aug to Sep, international photographer coming to Vietnam mainly for rice terrace in the north west of Vietnam. Beside to find the nice landscape photo of the rice terrace, they also would like to explore the rural area of the minority living in the mountains of Vietnam.

Although, there is difficult to get the nice rice terrace for photography, they still come for the nice shots. We need to use motorbike taxi to get the almost nice view for photography, it take about 15 to 30 minutes on the bike in the narrow path up to the hill, some place is flat, some place is high slope.

Beside the difficult of transportation, the accommodation is also difficult too. Due to this area is the rural places, so there are not many choices for good hotel. Mostly are homestays with dorm room and toilet out of the room and some have basic hotel but number of the room is not much.

Photography with water in the rice terrace fields

Normally during Jun (the period is from end of May to the early of Jun yearly), that is the time minority people in the north of Vietnam preparing for the new crops, they work at the rice terrace field, waiting rainy day to have enough water in the fields then they start planting young rice. Due the the water and seasonal, there is not whole are the same, some rice field hill has water, some not and dry. So, for photography of the wet rice terrace field is mainly by lucky. Moreover, this is the beginning of the rainy season so we may get wet, please prepare that.

Photography with the golden rice terrace fields

During Aug to Sep is the golden rice terrace for photography. Some of the nice rice fields are full of tourists if you come on the weekend, some rural rice terrace views are quieter. This period is the end of the rainy season, so may still have some rainy days. Photography of the rice terrace mostly by lucky.

Photography with people culture of minority in the rural area of northern Vietnam

Early morning and late afternoon for rice terrace and other times is to discover the people cultures of the minority in the rural places. The Hmong people is the mainly people living in the rice terrace hill of the north west Vietnam. We can visit some local minority village, ask them for photography if any.

Photo tour with Rice terrace in Vietnam

I live in Ho Chi Minh City, and I can organize and lead rice terrace photo tour in the north of Vietnam, you can contact me and check my availability.

BOOKING

To have private departure or just simply check my availability please do not hesitate to contact us at victorbuian@gmail.com or Hotline: Mobile / WhatsApp: +84908618571

Private departure

PHOTO TOUR FEATURES

Tour leading by experience photo tour guide.
Enjoy landscape photography with rice terrace.
Photo tour features of landscape, portrait and street life photography
Design for all people loved photography shooting during travel.
Best time to travel: Jun, Aug, Sep.

Vietnam photo tours

Guide for discovery the beauty of rice terrace Vietnam

Best view for rice terrace in Vietnam

The rice terrace is located in the hill of the northern Vietnam from the north east to the north west. And the best view of rice terrace in Vietnam now is the Mu Cang Cang Rice Terrace, this is the ideal place to photographer to discover although this place is far from the city center (7 hours of driving from Hanoi) and surrounding is still rural but it worth for landscape photographer once discover.

Season of Wet Rice Terrace field

Best time to explore the rice terrace during Jun, with this period the rain season has begin. If you do not mind about get wet during your discovery this period is nice to visit rice terrace in Vietnam. During the period people prepare the new crops, and with the rain they will lead the natural water to the rice terrace fields, then they plan the rice trees. A lot of activities in the rice field for us to discover, sometime you can see people go to the rice field for work during hold the young baby. The most interesting thing about photography the wet rice terrace is the reflection of the water on the rice terrace fields.

Season of Golden rice terraces in North Vietnam

It should be Sep and early of Oct, this is the general harvesting season for rice terrace field in the north hill of Vietnam. This period is depend on each year due to the natural water by the rain. This period also the peak season for tourists and photographers to come to rice terrace hill.

Only one way to get the nice view of rice terrace hill by mortobike taxi

Motorbike taxi is the only one transportation to get the nice view of most of the best rice terrace view in Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam. The motorbike taxi is driven by the HMong minority people, go up to the hill by the small concrete or soil path. That should be challenge for some tourists with a soft adventure. Otherwise, you can prepare a reliable hiking shoes for 1-2 hour walking up to the hill.

Lack of good accommodations at Mu Cang Chai

At the nice view of rice terrace hill in Mu Cang Chai, it is lack of good accommodation. Mainly they have homestays with a few rooms privately and a big dorm room (shared room with around 10 mattress on the floor and toilet outside of the room).

If you would like to explore the rice terrace in other destinations famous for tourism, the quality of accommodations is better, but I don't think the view of the rice terrace is beautiful as in Mu Cang Chai.

Basic food in the rural place of rice terrace hill

Around the rice terrace hill is the rural area, mostly mountainous, so do not expect the good quality meals. There is few luxury hotel around Mu Cang Chai can offer that, and mostly the local restaurant are basic quality of meals flavor food of minority people.

Mu Cang Chai Photography Tour

Photo Tour to rice terrace in Mu Cang Chai

To me, Mu Cang Chai is the best place for photography tour of rice terrace in Vietnam. This place is still rural enough, and the road condition is good to transfer from the big city to the town of Mu Cang Chai. Moreover, there are a lot of nice huge rice terrace hill not yet discover by photographers and the local people are nice and friendly. If you do not mind the basic travel service in the rural area of Mu Cang Chai, this place would be nice for you to travel with soft adventures.

Mu Cang Chai Photography Tour

Hoang Su Phi Photography Tour

Photo Tour to rice terrace in Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang

Once I discover the Hoang Su Phi rice terrace was memorable. I am really impressive with how difficult we take with the traffic as the the land slide. During the period of rice terrace in Hoang Su Phi is the end of the rain season of this area, so after the rain season, most of the road condition in Ha Giang is risk of land slide and it may affect to the traffic. But the landscape of rice terrace in Hoang Su Phi is great. It is not huge and many like Mu Cang Chai rice terrace but the rice terrace in Hoang Su Phi is located in higher hills, more difficult to get the top of the hills, and it is more chance to have the rice terrace in the mist or cloudy. The travel service in Hoang Su Phi rice terrace also basic, but I can see better than Mu Cang Chai nowadays.

Hoang Su Phi Photography Tour

Sapa Photography Tour

Photo Tour to rice terrace in Sapa

Most of the seasonal for rice terrace in north hill Vietnam is from Aug to Sep, some places till the beginning of October. Sapa in the before is the best place for rice terrace photography in the north of Vietnam due to easy access by road and train, also the travel service is Sapa is great, more luxury hotels. But Sapa and arounds nowadays are modern too much, it still have rice terrace hills to we need to go far to the country side about 1 hour of driving. Anyway, Sapa is still worth to discover during the golden season of rice terrace in the north hills of Vietnam. You can do a loop tour from Hanoi, Mu Cang Chai, Sapa, Bac Ha, Hoang Su Phi and back to Hanoi.

Sapa Photography Tour