I was on a 10 day photo trip with a small group. Momentlives were our local tour guides and the ones who made all the in-country accommodations, domestic flights, ground transportation, and arranged all our meals for the ten days. They are also experienced photographers who have made it there goal to know where and when to photograph as many locations in Vietnam as they can possibly scout. We started in Hanoi where we toured places like the midnight market, many fantastic location in and around Hanoi as well as the surrounding country side. We then took a domestic flight to the central part of Vietnam. What a beautiful country and the people were so friendly and tolerant of photographers capturing images of everything they were doing. I give credit to Trieu Son and Hoa Nguyen Duc for developing the relationship with the local people and in some cases the local leaders for this kind of access. I got the most fantastic images in this part of Vietnam. One of them was chosen by our local newspaper as a winning image in their annual “Travel Photograph of the Year” contest. We took another domestic flight down to Saigon and again Son and Hoa knew exactly where we would get the opportunity to capture wonderful images. The accommodation they arranged through out the trip were always the best available at that location, most 4 and 5 start hotels or resorts and even the locations that did not have that classy of accommodation, they found us wonderful places to stay and made up for not being 5 star by having a wonderful location, view, and staff that were great. I just can’t say enough about Son and Hoa of Momentlives, they were so friendly, knowledgeable of both Photography and the in-country travel/accomidations, and Food.
