Trip Features
Journey Highlights
- Best Mekong river cruise value & lowest price!
- 7-night Mekong river cruise on the RV Mekong Pandaw — privately chartered for Vantage travelers
- 3-night stay in Siem Reap, Cambodia, near the great temples of Angkor Wat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Exclusive overnight junk boat cruise in Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- 4 exciting extension options to choose from
Your Price Includes
- Purchase your airfare from Vantage and
your airport transfers and government taxes and fees are included
- Vantage exclusive charter of the RV Mekong Pandaw, featuring 24 riverview cabins, with daily sightseeing and local drinks included
- Accommodations:
17 nights, including 9 nights in Deluxe and Superior First-Class
hotels, 1 night aboard a traditional junk boat on Ha Long Bay, and 7
nights cruising aboard the colonial-style RV Mekong Pandaw, chartered exclusively by Vantage
- Small groups of 24 travelers aboard a privately chartered 48-passenger ship
- 28 sightseeing tours and Learning Discoveries with state-of-the-art QuietVox portable audio headsets on all shore
excursions throughout your cruise — a value of $4,846 per couple!
- 41 meals: 17 breakfasts, 12 lunches, and 12 dinners, plus local drinks and complimentary wine served with dinner on board
- A Discovery Leader, experienced and English-speaking, to accompany you
- All transportation on tour including a flight from Siem Reap to Hanoi
- 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Angkor Wat Complex and Ha Long Bay
- All transfers and baggage handling when overseas (where permitted) when you purchase your airfare from Vantage
- Vantage 5% Travel Reward, received upon your return, to use toward your next Vantage Memorable Journey®
Highlights
28 Included Sightseeing Tours & Learning Discoveries – a value of $4,846 per couple!
- Tour of Hanoi
- Visit to the Temple of Literature
- Overnight aboard a junk boat in Ha Long Bay
- Tour of the Angkor Wat temple complex
- Visit to Wat Nokor
- Tour of Phnom Penh
- Visit to the Royal Palace and National Museum in Phnom Penh
- Visit to a Cham tribal village
- Boat tour to Cai Be Island to visit the local Catholic church
- Visit to the Ancient Chinese House and a local market in Sa Dec
- Boat tour to the floating market and the Ancient Vietnamese House
- City tour of Saigon
- Tour of the Reunification Palace
Learning Discoveries
- Enjoy a home-hosted lunch with a family in Saigon
- Watch a water puppetry show in Saigon
- Visit a Vietnamese family-run business that makes candles, rice paper, and popped rice
- Visit a floating fish farm
- Learn how to make traditional spring rolls at a cooking demonstration
- Take a cyclo ride in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, once known as the “Pearl of Asia”
- Lecture on life along the Mekong
- Lecture: “Vietnam, Past and Today”
- Enjoy a Cambodian children’s dance performance on board
- Sail aboard a Sampan to visit a floating village
- Watch a lovely Aspara dance performance, a traditional Cambodian art form, in Siem Reap
- Visit a Cambodian dance
school - Visit a silk farm
- Visit the notorious “Hanoi Hilton” prison where Americans were held during the Vietnam War, with a presentation on the war
- Tour of Hanoi’s Old City via trishaw, a bicycle-powered rickshaw
Visit 2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Halong Bay in Vietnam
- Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia
