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| 17th17 | FebFeb | 202020 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, embark on the AmaDara | | |
| Romantically referred to by the French as the Pearl of the Orient, Ho Chi Minh City today is a super-charged city of sensory overload. Motorbikes zoom day and night along the wide boulevards, through the narrow back alleys and past vendors pushing handcarts hawking goods of all descriptions. Still called Saigon by most residents, this is Vietnam's largest city and the engine driving the country's current economic resurgence, but despite its frenetic pace, it's a friendlier place than Hanoi and locals will tell you the food—simple, tasty, and incorporating many fresh herbs—is infinitely better than in the capital.This is a city full of surprises. The madness of the city's traffic—witness the oddball things that are transported on the back of motorcycles—is countered by tranquil pagodas, peaceful parks, quirky coffee shops, and whole neighborhoods hidden down tiny alleyways, although some of these quiet spots can be difficult to track down. Life in Ho Chi Minh City is lived in public: on the back of motorcycles, on the sidewalks, and in the parks. Even when its residents are at home, they're still on display. With many living rooms opening onto the street, grandmothers napping, babies being rocked, and food being prepared, are all in full view of passersby.Icons of the past endure in the midst of the city’s headlong rush into capitalism. The Hotel Continental, immortalized in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, continues to stand on the corner of old Indochina's most famous thoroughfare, the rue Catinat, known to American G.I.s during the Vietnam War as Tu Do (Freedom) Street and renamed Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street by the Communists. The city still has its ornate opera house and its old French city hall, the Hôtel de Ville. The broad colonial boulevards leading to the Saigon River and the gracious stucco villas are other remnants of the French colonial presence. Grisly reminders of the more recent past can be seen at the city's war-related museums. Residents, however, prefer to look forward rather than back and are often perplexed by tourists' fascination with a war that ended 40 years ago.The Chinese influence on the country is still very much in evidence in the Cholon district, the city's Chinatown, but the modern office towers and international hotels that mark the skyline symbolize Vietnam's fixation on the future. Board the AmaDara at My Tho Port Settle in and then meet fellow guests at a Welcome Dinner as the ship cruises to Cai Be |
| 18th18 | FebFeb | 202020 | Sa Déc, Vietnam | | |
| Take a local boat to Cai Be You will have an opportunity to visit candy and rice paper making workshops, as well as the historic Kiet Old House Later in the day, journey to Sa Dec, a sprawling town on the Mekong Delta, where French writer Marguerite Duras spent part of heryouth You will visit the colorful market, Cao Dai Temple and the house of Mr Huynh Thuy Le, Duras’Chinese paramour, which her prize-winning novel, “The Lover,” is said to be based on |
| 18th18 | FebFeb | 202020 | Cái Bè, Vietnam | | |
| Take a local boat to Cai Be You will have an opportunity to visit candy and rice paper making workshops, as well as the historic Kiet Old House Later in the day, journey to Sa Dec, a sprawling town on the Mekong Delta, where French writer Marguerite Duras spent part of heryouth You will visit the colorful market, Cao Dai Temple and the house of Mr Huynh Thuy Le, Duras’Chinese paramour, which her prize-winning novel, “The Lover,” is said to be based on |
| 19th19 | FebFeb | 202020 | Tân Châu, Vietnam | | |
| Enjoy a visit to Tan Chau, a small Mekong River town unspoiled by tourism Be treated to an authentic experience on a traditional “xe-loi” |
| 20th20 | FebFeb | 202020 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | |
| This morning’s excursion takes you to Cambodia’s infamous Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge’s grim Tuol Sleng S21 detention center |
| 21st21 | FebFeb | 202020 | Oudong, Cambodia | | |
| Visit Oudong, Cambodia’s former royal capital from the early 17th century until 1866 Today, Oudong is a place of pilgrimage for Cambodians While here, be treated to a memorable Buddhist Blessing Ceremony at a monastery You may also take a walking tour of Oudong In Kampong Tralach, you will have a truly authentic excursion an oxcart ride through a local village Later in the day, experience Phnom Penh via a tuk tuk ride and be enchanted by the city's French Colonial architecture and tree-lined boulevards set amidst monumental Angkorian architecture |
| 21st21 | FebFeb | 202020 | Kampong Tralach, Cambodia | | |
| Visit Oudong, Cambodia’s former royal capital from the early 17th century until 1866 Today, Oudong is a place of pilgrimage for Cambodians While here, be treated to a memorable Buddhist Blessing Ceremony at a monastery You may also take a walking tour of Oudong In Kampong Tralach, you will have a truly authentic excursion an oxcart ride through a local village Later in the day, experience Phnom Penh via a tuk tuk ride and be enchanted by the city's French Colonial architecture and tree-lined boulevards set amidst monumental Angkorian architecture |
| 21st21 | FebFeb | 202020 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | |
| Visit Oudong, Cambodia’s former royal capital from the early 17th century until 1866 Today, Oudong is a place of pilgrimage for Cambodians While here, be treated to a memorable Buddhist Blessing Ceremony at a monastery You may also take a walking tour of Oudong In Kampong Tralach, you will have a truly authentic excursion an oxcart ride through a local village Later in the day, experience Phnom Penh via a tuk tuk ride and be enchanted by the city's French Colonial architecture and tree-lined boulevards set amidst monumental Angkorian architecture |
| 22nd22 | FebFeb | 202020 | Oknha Tey Village, Cambodia | | |
| In the morning, set sail for Oknhatey Village Oknhatey is the “Silk Island,” located on the lush banks of the Mekong River and known for its rich tradition of silk weaving While here, you will visit a local elementary school and observe the traditional silk weaving, an art that has been preserved for centuries Your cruise continues to sail to Angkor Ban |
| 23rd23 | FebFeb | 202020 | Angkor Ban, Cambodia | | |
| Go on a walking tour of Angkor Ban, one of the few villages in Cambodia that was not destroyed under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s Here people still live in their traditional wooden abodes and keep their old cultural traditions alive Hundreds of wooden houses stand intact on stilts, shaded with banana trees, among the hustle and bustle of the daily agricultural on-going of the local villagers After visiting here, the ship sets sail for Kampong Cham, where you will go on an afternoon excursion via motorcoach to the Twin Mountains, known as Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei |
| 23rd23 | FebFeb | 202020 | Kampong Cham, Cambodia | | |
| Go on a walking tour of Angkor Ban, one of the few villages in Cambodia that was not destroyed under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s Here people still live in their traditional wooden abodes and keep their old cultural traditions alive Hundreds of wooden houses stand intact on stilts, shaded with banana trees, among the hustle and bustle of the daily agricultural on-going of the local villagers After visiting here, the ship sets sail for Kampong Cham, where you will go on an afternoon excursion via motorcoach to the Twin Mountains, known as Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei |
| 24th24 | FebFeb | 202020 | Kampong Cham, Cambodia, disembark the AmaDara | | |
| Your cruise concludes in Kampong Cham, where you disembark and Motorcoach transfer to Siem Reap |
