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| Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Riches of the Mekong - Cruise Only |
Ship1 Dinner
Today, board your waterway journey dispatch at Prek Kdam, a little town on the Tonle River. Meet your kindred explorers at a Welcome Dinner as the ship travels to Kampong Chhnang.
Day 2 Kampong Chhnang | Koh Chen
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
After breakfast, a nearby watercraft takes you into the lakeside wetlands that frame the mouth of the Tonle Sap River. Appreciate the shocking assortment of feathered creature life here, and be vigilant for the traps used to catch angle around there – some are over a half-mile long! Toward the evening, take a restful stroll to the Koh Chen town. Additionally visit home workshops gaining practical experience in silversmithing and copper-smithing.
Day 3 Oudong | Kampong Tralach | Phnom Penh
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
Toward the beginning of today exchange to Oudong, the previous capital of Cambodia. Visit a religious community and get an uncommon Buddhist gift. In Kampong Tralach, take a really paramount outing – an oxcart ride through the rice paddies encompassing a little town. Later, your ship leaves for Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, where an evening introduction visit gives you a magnificent prologue to the city. Your visit incorporates a stop at Wat Phnom. Come back to the ship for supper and an installed Khmer people execution introduced by nearby kids. The vessel fields overnight in Phnom Penh.
Day 4 Phnom Penh
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
Today take a journey to Cambodia's scandalous Killing Fields furthermore visit the Khmer Rouge's dreary Tuol Sleng S21 confinement focus (Genocide Museum) simply outside the city. After lunch on board, your evening visit investigates the highlights of the city, well known for its French pioneer engineering, occupied bistros and bright nightlife. Visit the Royal Palace, the stupendous Silver Pagoda, and the National Museum, which has an extraordinary accumulation of Khmer artworks. An overnight on the waterfront gives a chance to feast all alone in one of numerous adjacent eateries, in the event that you so pick.
Day 5 Phnom Penh | Border Crossing | Tan Chau, Vietnam
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
Spend the day cruising the Mekong River and intersection the fringe into Vietnam. Your vessel fields midstream at the residential area of Tan Chau, Vietnam.
Day 6 Tan Chau | Sa Dec
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
At the beginning of today, visit Tan Chau, a little Mekong River town pristine by tourism. Pick one of two visits at the beginning of today. Your first alternative is to take a conventional "xe-loi" (trishaw) ride around the town, with stops at a silk-production workshop and another that produces rattan mats and shoes. On the other hand, take a vessel ride through the tight channels of the Mekong River to a few picturesque areas, including a little town known as Evergreen Island. Come back to Tan Chau, where you may visit workshops that make silk and rattan tangles in the town. This evening, your ship travels to Sa Dec, where it fields overnight.
Day 7 Sa Dec | Xeo Quyt | Cai Be
Ship1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch, 1 Dinner
In the morning, board a nearby watercraft for Sa Dec. Once aground, visit the town where French essayist Marguerite Duras spent numerous years in her childhood. Visit a bright neighborhood advertise, and the place of Mr. Huynh Thuy Le, Duras' Chinese lover. A short time later, load up an engine mentor for Xeo Quyt, once utilized as a base amid the French and U.S. wars and now a critical biological site. After lunch on board, a neighborhood vessel takes you to Cai Be's dynamite gliding market. Utilize this chance to visit sweet and rice paper workshops. Tonight, appreciate a bubbly Farewell Dinner on board.
Day 8 Ho Chi Minh City | Disembarkation
1 Breakfast
Your voyage arrives at an end as the ship docks at My Tho Port.