From the Mekong Delta to Siem Reap

Meet at the Liberty Central Riverside Hotel restaurant between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Lunch at the hotel. In the afternoon, you will tour the city: the Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Central Post Office. Visit Cholon, the Chinese-influenced section of the city, including its hectic market and Ba Thien Hau Pagoda dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu. After comfortably settling into your cabins, you’ll be introduced to the crew at a welcome cocktail, have dinner, and spend the night on board downtown. 

Enjoy free time on board or leave by coach for the Cu Chi tunnels, an immense network of underground tunnels that Viet Cong soldiers used as hiding spots during combat, as well as serving as communication and supply routes, hospitals, food, and weapon caches. Lunch will be done on board. Visit the Museum of Vietnamese History. You’ll then set out to cross the very narrow Chao Gao Canal. Night on board.

Continue your cruise to My Tho along the magnificent Chao Gao Canal. Visit a bee farm and enjoy some honey tea and exotic fruit. Lunch on board. You’ll discover a brick and pottery factory as well as a traditional factory producing puffed rice, rice-paper wrappers used to make nems, and rice alcohol. 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. You’ll return on board the ship and have lunch. Sailing to Chau Doc, a town on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, whose territory became Vietnamese 300 years ago. Night on board.

Located on the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, the prosperous city of Chau Doc has developed around fish and fish farming. You’ll visit the Tay An Pagoda and the Ba Chua Xu Temple. Lunch on board. Arrival in the evening in Phnom Penh. Dinner on board. You'll remain in port overnight.

Enjoy a tour of the fabulous Royal Palace, one of the most impressive examples of Cambodian architecture, and its Silver Pagoda. Onward to visit the National Museum. After lunch in town, 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. Afterwards, enjoy some free time at the market. As you get back on board, you will enjoy an Apsara dance show. Dinner and overnight on board, in the port of Phnom Penh. Free evening.

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

Visit Kampong Chhnang, one of the largest fishing ports on Tonle Sap Lake. Here they also have many fish farms. The region is best known for its fine traditional pottery which is a major source of revenue for the entire country. Tasting of some local products. Lunch on board. Continue your cruise on Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in southeast Asia which forms the heart of the hydraulic system of the Mekong. Cocktail and gala dinner tonight. The ship will remain anchored overnight.

Disembark, road to Siem Reap, and discovery of traditional villages
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Morning cruise through Tonle Lake and disembark. Transfer to the hotel Lotus Blanc (ships: RV Indochine I and RV Lan Diep) and the hotel Sofitel Angkor (ship : RV Indochine II) in Siem Reap. End of services around 12:30 p.m.

Please do not book your flight before 3:30 p.m.