Tourist Vietnam
There are basically 2 tourist routes in Vietnam.... North to South or South to North. Like a little tourist factory everything is geared up to ferry you between these two sites and make your experience as easy and as painless as possible.
'Open Tour' bus tickets are the first purchase, it is very simple to buy a single ticket from a tour operator and then hop off and on at a range of common destinations throughout the country. At each destination there are associated hotels, restaurants and tours operating to push you around the sites. This makes a very efficient experience and you get to see a lot of sites on a fairly tight budget. The only problem is you are not really in control of your experience. It is quite simple to hop to another hotel but often preferential rates go only to people purchasing a tour, tours are busy but they head to the same places as everyone else and runs on a standard timetable making the random sunrise very hard to go and shoot with a camera.
So I tried my hardest to escape convention and headed off to Dalat where I had heard of a tour group called ‘Easy Riders’ who take people on the back of their motorbike to a range of less touristy areas
'Open Tour' bus tickets are the first purchase, it is very simple to buy a single ticket from a tour operator and then hop off and on at a range of common destinations throughout the country. At each destination there are associated hotels, restaurants and tours operating to push you around the sites. This makes a very efficient experience and you get to see a lot of sites on a fairly tight budget. The only problem is you are not really in control of your experience. It is quite simple to hop to another hotel but often preferential rates go only to people purchasing a tour, tours are busy but they head to the same places as everyone else and runs on a standard timetable making the random sunrise very hard to go and shoot with a camera.
So I tried my hardest to escape convention and headed off to Dalat where I had heard of a tour group called ‘Easy Riders’ who take people on the back of their motorbike to a range of less touristy areas
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