Magnificent Mekong

14 nights from £7,395pp commencing Monday 4th Dec 2023

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					Arrive	Depart
	4th04	DecDec	202323	2 nights accommodation before your cruise
	6th06	DecDec	202323	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, embark on the Viking Saigon		15:30
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.
	7th07	DecDec	202323	Sa Déc, Vietnam
	8th08	DecDec	202323	Tân Châu, Vietnam
	9th09	DecDec	202323	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
	10th10	DecDec	202323	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
	11th11	DecDec	202323	Cruising
	12th12	DecDec	202323	Kampong Cham, Cambodia
	13th13	DecDec	202323	Kampong Cham, Cambodia, disembark the Viking Saigon
	13th13	DecDec	202323	5 nights accommodation following your cruise
	18th18	DecDec	202323	Check out of accommodation

Viking Saigon

Launch Year

2021

Capacity

Cabins

Accessible

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Holiday Summary

	Return flights including luggage allowance
	Overseas Transfers
	2 nights in a hotel before your cruise
	7 nights cruising on the Mekong
	5 nights in a hotel following your cruise
	Deluxe ensuite accommodation with river view
	Beer, wine and soft drinks at lunch & dinner
	Alternative restaurant with lighter meals
	One complimentary shore excursion in every port
	Free Wi-Fi included
	Complimentary tea and coffee
	Port Taxes and Fees
	ABTA and ATOL Protection*

Balcony staterooms from		£7,395pp
B	French Balcony
C	French Balcony	£7,395pp
A	Veranda	£7,695pp

Suite staterooms
ES	Explorer Suite

Balcony staterooms from		£7,395pp
B	French Balcony
C	French Balcony	£7,395pp
A	Veranda	£7,695pp

Suite staterooms
ES	Explorer Suite

Balcony staterooms from		£7,395pp
B	French Balcony
C	French Balcony	£7,395pp
A	Veranda	£7,695pp

Suite staterooms
ES	Explorer Suite

Balcony staterooms from		£7,395pp
B	French Balcony
C	French Balcony	£7,395pp
A	Veranda	£7,695pp

Suite staterooms
ES	Explorer Suite

Balcony staterooms from		£7,395pp
B	French Balcony
C	French Balcony	£7,395pp
A	Veranda	£7,695pp

Suite staterooms
ES	Explorer Suite