Luxury Mekong River Cruises

Activities: Pick up at Saigon Meeting Point, embark cruise.

Meal: Lunch, Dinner

Morning transfer to the port, embarking the RV Mekong Pandaw in time for welcome drinks, a briefing and lunch. Sail across the vast Mekong Delta.

Your guide will collect your passports at the meeting point so we can arrange the immigration formalities.

Please note: between mid of February and end of March we are expecting low water levels. Alternate itinerary and excursions will apply should we not be able to reach Kratie and the river dolphins.

Activities: Visit Sa Dec, see the local market and the ancient house of Mr, Huyn Thuy Le.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Sampan boat excursion to Sa Dec via Vinh Long, along canals and backwaters and see the local market and the ancient house of Mr, Huyn Thuy Le, the 'lover' of Marguerite Duras, a famous French novelist whose book was imortalised in the film L’Indochine.

Activities: Visit a Moslem Cham tribal village and a cat fish farm

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Visit a Moslem Cham tribal village and a cat fish farm in Chau Doc with our guide or do your own thing and take off on one of our mountain bikes. The local market is great and the Catholic Church well worth a visit. Return to the ship by boat for lunch and cast off for the Cambodian border for the usual formalities.

Activities: visit the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and National Museum

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Whilst in Phnom Penh you will be provided with their own private cyclo. The Cyclo Centre Phnom Penh which provides the cyclos is a charity that provides basic welfare and medical services to cyclo drivers. You will visit the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and National Museum. In the afternoon, optional excursion (by coach) to the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge's grim Tuol Sleng or S21 detention centre.

Activities: Explorations up Tonle River to a silver making village, Kampong Trolach, and Chong Koh

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Explorations up Tonle River to a silver making village, Kampong Trolach, and Chong Koh either by ship or by coach depending on water levels. This river is very pretty and there is a vibrant local life to be viewed along the river banks and in lesser craft.

Activities: walk at Angkor Ban, visit charming French colonial town of Kratie

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Morning walk at Angkor Ban and after an all day sail through delightful Cambodian countryside we reach charming French colonial town of Kratie in the evening. No other river ships get this high but thanks to the Mekong Pandaw’s shallow draft we can attempt it.

Activities: view the dolphin grounds in a national park protected area.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

From Kratie we go further upstream using a local bus to view the dolphin grounds in a national park protected area. In the afternoon on our return downstream we stop at a curious shrine known as the Monkey Temple on the way to moor overnight near Kampong Cham.

Activities: stop at Kampong Thom, arrive at Siem Reap mid-afternoon.

Meal: Breakfast,

Early morning coach transfer to Siem Reap. Refreshments will be provided and we will stop at Kampong Thom along the way. Arrive at Siem Reap mid-afternoon.