4 Days Downstream Phnom Penh Saigon on RV Mekong Pandaw Cruise: Early sailing to the Vietnam border, discovering the labyrinthine canal system around Tan Chau to visit a Taoist temple. Going through local villages by Xe Loi stopping off to help locals tend their fields before stopping off to visit a fish farm and earn merit by releasing fish back into the Mekong.
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Day 1: Phnom Penh
Activities: Embarking the ship by lunchtime, discovering the city on your own.
Please embark on the ship between 12:30 and no later than 13:30, because we will need your passport to process the immigration formalities for the border crossing. You will be free to discover the quayside or relax on the ship from 13:30 to 15:00. All guests will have to be aboard by 15:00 ready to set sail. We will cruise toward the Vietnam border and spend the night at the border on the Cambodian side.
Meals: Lunch on board, Dinner on board
Overnight: RV Mekong Pandaw Cruise
Day 2: Tan Chau
Activities: Early sailing to the Vietnam border, discovering the labyrinthine canal system around Tan Chau to visit a Taoist temple
We will early sail to the Vietnam border for formalities and during this stationary period, there will be an optional tour of the working ship and fruit carving classes on deck. In the afternoon, we will get to discover the labyrinthine canal system around Tan Chau to visit a Taoist temple where the monks will read fortunes. We will continue to go through local villages by Xe Loi stopping off to help locals tend their fields before stopping off to visit a fish farm and earn merit by releasing fish back into the Mekong.
Meals: Breakfast on board, Lunch on board, Dinner on board
Overnight: RV Mekong Pandaw Cruise
Day 3: Con Phuoc Island
Activities: sailing up a small canal to moor off Con Phuoc Island and go ashore to discover the island by tuk-tuk seeing basket production and visit a 100-year-old Catholic Church, visit Gao Giong green oasis with its bird sanctuary
In the morning, we will visit the Island of Con Phuoc Island and go ashore to discover the island by tuk-tuk see basket production, and visit a 100-year-old Catholic Church and local woodworking artisans. After a short cruise downstream, we will take a short coach trip where we visit Gao Giong ‘green oasis’ with its bird sanctuary. Here, a diverse selection of water birds and egrets gather in the tens of thousands across the Duong Tharp Muoi or ‘Plain of Reeds’. Rowing boats traverse the canals to take us to see the principal nesting areas.
Meals: Breakfast on board, Lunch on board, Dinner on board
Overnight: RV Mekong Pandaw Cruise
Day 4: My Tho – Saigon
Activities: traveling by sampans through mangroves and bamboo groves to the fruit orchards of Ben Tre, cruising to My Tho, disembark, arrive at the hotel
In the morning, we will take a cruise downstream to Ben Tre. we will travel by sampans through mangroves and bamboo groves to the fruit orchards of Ben Tre. These local artisans will be at work and invite visitors into their homes for tea, fruit, and honey products made from their own honey. This is an area rich in bird life. On our return journey, we will travel through the lush countryside. In the afternoon moo, at My Tho, we will transfer to Saigon by roadway.
Meals: Breakfast on board
