Neville Crowther, Scotland February 2007

My wife and I accompanied by a couple of friends from Canada had a very successful birding trip to Vietnam in early 2007. We spent almost four weeks under Bao's supervision, travelling from Saigon northwards almost to the Chinese border. We stayed at all the major National parks and traveled by internal air flights and hired vehicles with local drivers. We found him to be a charming, intelligent and companiable leader with a excellent knowledge of natural history, particularly birds. I have no hesitation in recommending him to anyone needing his birding skills, local knowledge and organisational flair, which he needed to demonstrate in  full at the difficult time of  the Tet New Year festivities when much of the country had 'closed down'. At all times he was flexible in his itinerary to make the most of unexpected opportunities and had close contacts with local bird experts who accompanied us on several occasions.