Vietnam photography travel

According to the travel companies in Vietnam, in the near future photography tourism will develop as because the country has many heritage sites, tourist attractions, ancient villages and colorful pictures of daily life of the Vietnamese people. 

Lovers of photography often enjoy their passion with their journeys to places with beautiful views in order to take a great photos. This type of tourism is called "the photographic tour", and recently a number of travel companies in Vietnam have organized such tours to meet the needs of the clients who love "view-and-shoot".

Vietnam photography travel

Adam Hwang, marketing manager of an international tour company in Vietnam said that, although the work is very busy, but Hwang and his friends often bring a camera for a short trip somewhere to take pictures in their spare time. "We do not put heavy emphasis on art of the image, so the photos we take are very realistic and vivid. It is important that when you look through the lens and shoot, a beautiful moment is recorded. We really liked this sense, so we often organize photo trips like this".

Many young students in Hanoi at weekends usually go away to get good pictures of the cabbage flower gardens, orchards or soaring bush of reed. The beauty of nature will help amateur photographers captured many beautiful photos without the need for experience.

As a prevailing movement a large number of young people in big cities often team up to take a picture together away freely. They often go to the popular destinations with stunning views and cultural highlights to take photo. For those who can not go away, they just take pictures in the city where they live, but if you take the time to search for new corners in the city, they can give birth to works of life.

Kim, a 22-year-old student at a university in the city of Ho Chi Minh City said: "To have a picture like that, sometimes the photographers have to roll over, roll back, rolling on the ground to find a nice angle".

Taking a great opportunity, many tour companies have opened many sightseeing photography tours. Their clients are young people, entrepreneurs and foreign tourists, who have the same hobby of Vietnam travel photos. Pictures of Vietnam travel destinations

Long Pham, a photographer and as a tour guide, revealed that domestic tourists love photography tours in the area of heritage and famous scenic spots. Foreign tourists, there are many different requirements. "They asked me to tell them what the best of Vietnam. Although they love the famous tourist attractions such as Hue old capital, My Son sanctuary and Halong bay, but they do not have enough time to take pictures. However, the scene of a school girl wearing white long dress flying in the wind after school, of the workers taking a rest after work or sight of a family reunion in the fire somewhere in the center could attract foreign photographers for several hours. The lens of Vietnamese tourists are used to record beautiful moments, while the lens of the foreign visitors to explore daily life in Vietnam". Son said.

David Hung, Director of a travel company said a group of traveling photographic tour includes up to 10 people, and the company also offers flexible services from the hotel, restaurants and transportation to meet their demand. "Sometimes we have to arrange appropriate objects and scenes to be taken, such as local fairs with pictures of busy purchasing activities or a young woman rowing on the river under the golden sunset.

Ms Anna Tham from Fareast travel company said that the organization of sightseeing photography tours is much more complicated than the normal tours. "The tour operators need seek new destinations, capture the beautiful moments, find the beautiful angles and nice season to advise tourists".

Due to such high demand so the cost of this type of tours is often 25-30% higher than the normal tour for travel companies to offer photographers and models to cater to a small group of photographer tourists. Some tour operators have partnered with professional photographers to organize tours for tourists photographing in the country and abroad.

Based on the specific requirements of the photography tour, a tour guide must be a photographer so they can find spectacular places at each destination and make all arrangements for tourists so that they have unique travel photos in Vietnam.

Nam Viet Travel cooperated with a tour operator in Japan to organize tours for Japanese tourists to take photos, people over 60 years old and have a passion for photography. Because Japanese tourists living in a developed country, they want to explore the beauty of Vietnamese people in daily activities and landscape of a country without urbanization.

Coming to Vietnam, Japanese tourists are often required to take them to places where they can take pictures of hawkers, fishing on the river, Vietnamese festivals, rice harvests, livestock breeding, rural markets, fish markets, or fields of salt. "They are interested in the unique landscapes in Vietnam", photographers Paul Nguyen said.

source: http://www.vietnamtravelphotos.com/blog/photography-tour-popular-travel-activity-vietnam.php

Traditional Vietnamese village culture

Faced with the socio-moral crisis born of three decades of war, the onslaught of the Western way of life, and the adoption of a free- market economy, we mobilize-as we did in the difficult years of the struggle for independence- old national values, such as those of the traditional village. Vietnam photo gallery

A village in Vietnam

Over the centuries the Vietnamese nation has taken shape through the spread of villages (rural communes), politico - socio – economic groupings which have united the people in continuous combat against nature and foreign invaders.

A staunch feeling of communality binds men together within the family, the village, and the state ,which is indeed an ensemble of villages. This has allowed a population living on the cultivation of wet rice to build and maintain large water conservation works and to resist the invasion of powerful foes such as the Mongol armies in the 13th century. Such resistance has always been based on the thick network of villages.

In countries where defense relies on urban citadels , the fall of fortresses is followed by military disaster. But in Vietnam, on the contrary , each village a bastion.

In 1886, the resistance offered by the defense complex of Ba Dinh (Thanh Hoa), made up of five villages connected to each other by deep trenches, held at bay 3,400 French colonial troops supported by four gunboats. The siege, conducted by Captain (later, Marshall) Joffre, lasted as long as 35 days

By the same token, during the First Indochina War , the vast majority of occupied villages were on the side of the patriotic forces, which resulted in the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

Ngo Dinh Diem vainly tried to dismantle villages through the creation of “strategic hamlets”, and US aircraft fruitlessly bombed two- thirds of the rural communes in both the north and the south of the country.

The communal feeling is strengthened by numerous additional factors. On the administrative plane , the village was an autonomous unit within the state. The central authority, represented by district mandarins, was satisfied with looking for each Commune a set of figures for head tax, land tax, and unpaid labor. It was up to the Council of Elders, assisted by elected agents, to meet those obligations. Vietnamese festivals

A popular saying runs like this : “Royal decrees yield to village custom”

Within the village , beside its administrative structure, the population was distributed among seven kinds of groupings, including family clan, guild, hamlet.

The most original of these was the Giap. This vestige of the primitive agricultural commune was an egalitarian and democratic Male association, grouping men by age brackets regardless of their titles, functions, or fortunes. The passage of a man from a lower to a higher class gave him greater prestige.

In order to avoid a possibly stormy discussion, sensitive matters were in certain cases brought by the Elders before the Giap, in the hope of reaching a preliminary consensus.

Another democratic institution of village life, a vestige of the primitive agricultural commune, was the periodical distribution (every 3,4or 6 years) among registered male villagers of communal fields, which were inalienable. The privatization of this public domain took place essentially from the 12th to the early 19th century.

Communal lands brought the state more revenues (higher tax rates) than private lands did , and they supplied funds to pay agents of village administration, to help people without support : the old and widows and orphans.

On the eve of the land reform conducted in the 1950’s , there were still communal fields in villages.

The village is also the repository of the nation’s, spiritual and artistic traditions.

Its temples are the site of spring and autumn ritual celebrations, and provide occasions for popular communion and merriment. These temples house the majority of old architectural and sculptural works.

Many villages are proud of traditional handicrafts practiced by their inhabitants from generation to generation: silk weaving ,mother-of – pearl inlaying ,wood caving.

In the long periods of foreign domination (Chinese, French) national art which was in fact popular art, took refuge in the countryside. Many mandarins and scholars retired to their villages :their literary creations were both learned and popular .In spite of the positive aspects described above, the traditional village is far from being a Rousseau – esque model which could be accepted at the dawn of modern times. In the early years of the 20th century it was synonymous with oppression and extortions, intellectual backwardness, material and moral stagnation.

The democracy mentioned above was but a delusion. The reduced communal lands could no longer play their role. The communal hierarchy, Buttressed by Confucianism, divided society into five classes, the lowest of which was subjected to all duties and Corvees. The elders imposed their tyranny .The colonial administration attempted several reforms, which were merely formal.

Before the 1945 revolution , the archaic character of village structure was violently criticized both by Confucian scholars converted to the idea of progress and by young Western- Trained intellectuals.

Being apre-capitalist social formation, the traditional Viet village showed an autarkic, essentially agricultural, national economy, a reduced market economy and no

foreign trade. In spite of the country’s long coastline, the Viet village showed an autarkic, essentially agricultural, national economy, a reduced market economy and no foreign trade. In spite of the country’s long coastline, the Viet were no sea - farers in the way of the Malays . The absence of foreign trade put a brake on the advance of the economy.

The 1945 revolution ,the land reform of the 1950’s, agricultural cooperativization of the 1960’s ,and the resistance wars subjected the traditional village to profound upheavals. At present it is up to us to keep the lasting values of this heritage.

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