From the Angkor Temples to the Mekong Delta

Your program will commence based on your arrival time. For flights landing between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., the schedule is as follows: lunch at the hotel and a boat excursion on Tonle Lake to explore floating villages and observe traditional local life. In the evening, visit the Angkor Night Market. Dinner will be held in the city, with overnight accommodations provided at a four-star hotel for guests of the four-anchor ship and a five-star hotel for guests of the five-anchor ship.

This morning, visit Ta Prohm and Angkor Thom. Walk among the iconic stone faces of Bayon Temple and explore the Terrace of the Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King. After lunch in the city, tour Senteurs d'Angkor, a local enterprise offering handcrafted silk, carvings, traditional beauty products, and spices. The day concludes with a performance by Phare, the Cambodian circus. Overnight stay at the hotel.

Visit the Angkor Wat temple, the epitome of Khmer architectural art and Angkor's most famous and imposing monuments (visitors must cover their shoulders and wear long pants or a long skirt). Lunch will be served at the hotel.

Road to Koh Chen and discovery of traditional villages. Your crew will welcome you and help you comfortably settle into your cabins.

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Transfer to your ship. Your crew will welcome you and help you comfortably settle into your cabins.

Afternoon cruise through Tonle Lake.

Have dinner and formally meet your crew. Your ship will remain anchored overnight.

Discover the small village of Koh Chen, where craftspeople specialize in silver and copper work. Lunch on board, then visit the beautiful Vihara at the Wat Kampong Tralach Leu pagoda. To access the pagoda, you need to cross the village of Kampong Tralach, moving along a small road that runs perpendicular to the river in the middle of magnificent rice fields. Your ship will remain anchored overnight.

Kampong Chhnang is one of the largest fishing ports in Tonle Sap. Fish farming is abundant here. The region is also known for its traditional pottery, which combines ancient knowledge with modern techniques. Chhnang itself means "pot." You can also enjoy a tasting of regional products before returning on board. Lunch and cruising to Phnom Penh. Once you arrive, enjoy a tour of the area by "tuk-tuk," the easiest way to get around the city. Return to the ship and enjoy a performance of classical Khmer dancing and music. Your ship will remain overnight in Phnom Penh.

Enjoy a tour of the fabulous Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda, which is inlaid with over 5,000 silver tiles. After, join a visit to the National Museum of Cambodia. Have lunch in the city. In the afternoon, you can pay a visit to the Tuol Svay Prey School, a former detention, torture, and execution center run by the Khmer Rouge during the civil war. Afterward, enjoy some free time at the market. After your tour, return on board and begin to sail to Chau Doc, a town on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, whose territory became Vietnamese 300 years ago. Your ship will be anchored overnight.

Located on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, the prosperous city of Chau Doc has developed around fish and fish farming. Visit the Ba Chua Xu Temple and the Tay An Pagoda. Lunch on board. Begin to cruise toward Sa Dec. Have dinner and spend the night on board.

Visit the former house of Huynh Thuy Le, the man on whom Marguerite Duras based her book The Lover. After your excursion, enjoy some free time in Sa Dec. Have lunch on board and cruise to Vinh Long. Set out in smaller boats and travel through canals and orchards before arriving in Cai Be. Discover a brick and pottery factory and a traditional factory producing puffed rice, rice-paper wrappers used to make nems, and rice alcohol. Return on board your ship and begin to cruise. Have dinner and spend the night on board.

Visit a bee farm and enjoy some honey tea and exotic fruit. Then, ride in small sampans along the canal lined with mangrove palms and glimpse villagers going about their daily lives. Enjoy lunch on board and then set out to cross the very narrow canal, heading for Ho Chi Minh City and spending the night on the ship, which will remain moored in central Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is the most populous city in Vietnam. Enjoy a city tour of the Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Saigon Central Post Office. Afterward, join a visit to the Museum of Vietnamese History. Lunch will be served on board. Enjoy free time on board or leave by coach for the Cu Chi tunnels, an immense network of underground tunnels that were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War. After your excursion, return to the ship. Have your farewell cocktail and dinner tonight, and spend the night at the port.

After you disembark from the ship, head to Cholon, the Chinese-influenced section of the city. Enjoy lunch and bid you farewell at approximately 2:00 p.m. Please do not book your flight before 5:00 p.m.