Sunrise Photography Half-Day Tour in Saigon – Rise and Shine in the Enchanted Maze
Explore Saigon’s captivating vintage neighborhood at sunrise, where time-honored apartment blocks blend with street markets and hidden alleyways, offering endless photography opportunities. Visit a bustling flower market, where vibrant blooms and colorful personalities await. Embark on a mesmerizing journey through this lively labyrinth, documenting Saigon’s character one step at a time!
Highlights
- Sunrise Neighborhood Exploration: Discover a vintage Saigon neighborhood at sunrise, offering unique photography spots.
- Lively Flower Market: Immerse yourself in the city’s energy at a bustling flower market, capturing its vibrant atmosphere.
- Documenting Saigon: Explore the organized chaos of Saigon, documenting its character through your lens.
About this Experience
Itinerary
Uncover the essence of Saigon as we delve into a fascinating, vintage neighborhood at sunrise. Here, time-honored apartment blocks seamlessly merge with street markets and hidden alleyways, revealing great photography opportunities at every turn. Our morning adventure also takes us to a bustling local flower market, where you’ll encounter colorful blooms and intriguing personalities. The city’s pulse beats strong in this area, and the lively interactions between vendors and customers create an atmosphere that’s perfect for documenting through your lens.
In this mesmerizing journey through this labyrinth of wonders, every step is an exploration, and every moment is a chapter in the story of this vibrant city. Join me in uncovering the captivating organized chaos that defines Saigon’s character!
- Group size: 4 people maximum
- Level: beginners to advanced
- Pick up & drop off: centrally located hotels
- Duration: from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM
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What's included
- Coffee or drink
- Breakfast for sunrise photography tours
- Pick-up and drop-off in centrally located hotels
- Transportation
- Photography guidance
- Photography booklet
What's not included
- Pick-up and drop-off in hotels far from the center of town
- Alcoholic drinks
- Lunch or dinner.
Important Information
- Any cameras being DSLR, hybrids, compacts and even smartphones are welcome as the tours are truly about composition and creativity.
- In terms of lenses, bring a prime lens (35 or 50mm) if you have and a standard zoom lens.
- You also need one or two fully-charged batteries and enough memory cards to go through the day.
- Besides camera gear, make sure you wear light, hot weather appropriate clothing and closed shoes for optimal comfort.
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Customer Reviews
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Adrien is incredibly knowledgeable about Ho Chi Minh City and street photography. He knows how to convey his knowledge and will take you to his favorite spots like a skilled mushroom picker.
We took beautiful photos, and we are very pleased with them 📸✨️ Clearly, our best experience in Ho Chi Minh City with such an amazing guy as Adrien.
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Inspiring and educational experience that we cannot recommend more!
We are a couple with an interest in street photography that Adrien turned into a passion! He explained us the basic theory behind a great photo, and then we put in practice what we learned in areas of the city untouched by tourists.
Adrien’s knowledge about photography and the city is evident and his passion is contagious!
This was one of the best experiences we had in our Vietnamese trip - don’t miss it!
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An exceptional outing in the districts of Saigon which met our expectations. Excursion which began with a rich and educational exchange on the technique and approach of a street photographer around the café, then quickly put into a practical situation accompanied for a more than successful immersion in the popular markets and the Chinatown. Four hours passed in a flash, full of exchanges and insightful advice. Not to be missed under any circumstances for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in their photographic journey.
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I was on a sunrise and a sunset tour with Adrien on the same day. My personal background makes me a somewhat unusual participant of these tours. I was born and grew up right here in Saigon but left 20 years ago to settle overseas and have only been back occasionally for short visits since then. I’m also a photography enthusiast with a very good understanding of the technical aspects (but maybe not the artistic parts) of photography. I believe this background allows me to review Adrien’s tours with some authority and this is my take: his tours are absolutely fantastic and you should definitely book them.
Despite growing up in the city, I wasn’t aware of the very interesting spots he took me to. I thought District 1 is all expensive, built-up, sterile, commercial and touristy but there’s a part of district 1 right next to the touristy areas that is full of dark little alleys and small vibrant street-front shops where people are living typical Vietnamese lives completely unbothered by foreigners and big commerce. The little nooks and crannies he walked me through at each location showed me that he knows these places like the back of his hand and he must have spent days on end wandering and exploring them before showing them to me. Adrien helped me see the street markets I grew up with in a new light as prime street photographic opportunities. It’s quite amazing to see how comfortable Adrien is with taking photos of strangers and how he makes strangers feel comfortable with him taking photos of them. He would often stop and talk to Vietnamese people he encounters and they would be amazed at how well he speaks Vietnamese and readily open up to him and tell him about their lives.
I’m extremely impressed by how quickly Adrien spots interesting light, people, lines, shapes and colors and how quickly he combines these elements into interesting composition in photos that he took during the tour and shared with me during our post-tour feedback session. I felt like I was truly learning from a master of his craft. Another unique thing is that, totally unbeknownst to me, during our tour, Adrien was taking street photos of me taking street photos of other people and I really love these photos because. In addition to being my favorite photos of myself (who is usually behind instead of being in front of the camera), these photos are great street photos in their own right and show how Adrien truly practices the principles of photography what he preaches.
Aside from the photographic aspect, Adrien is also an amazing human being and I love talking to him about life and his experience living in Vietnam for the past 10 years. He’s also very open to giving you photographic tips about other places he has been to before. In short, you won’t regret booking his tours.
