Mighty Mekong Discovery with RV Jahan Cruise

Ho Chi Minh

• Activities:

  Welcome to Saigon, Free to relax

• Meal:

  Dinner]

• Included:

  563,]468,

Welcome to Vietnam - Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City

On arrival at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), you will be greeted by our guide and transferred to the hotel in the downtown. After doing the check in, you will be free on your own to walk around the city center to get acquainted with the liveliness of this young city.

Overnight in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh

• Activities:

  Explore Cu Chi Tunnels, visit the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch]

• Included:

  563,]468,

We will pick you up at your hotel at 8.00 AM, Start Cu Chi Tunnels Tour from Ho Chi Minh City, explore Cu Chi Tunnels - the famous historic place in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City. Cu Chi tunnels, more than 200km of underground tunnels have many branches connecting to underground hideouts, shelters, and entrances to other tunnels where thousands of fighters and villagers could hide. They were used by Viet Cong during the Vietnam War and were their great importance system in resistance to American forces, and helped achieve ultimate military success. Coming here you can discover how people communicate and supply routes, hospitals, food and weapon caches and living quarters for numerous guerrilla fighters during the war. Have lunch at the restaurant, then we drive back to Ho Chi Minh arriving at approximately 14.00 pm.

City tour of Ho Chi Minh City with the War Remnants Museum - a real and huge collection of the war evidences, the Reunification Palace - a historic place which witnessed the victorious moments of Vietnam forces, the Old Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral - the religious symbol of the Christian in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh,My Tho,Cai Be

• Activities:

  Travel to My Tho, cruise along the Mekong, enjoy the sunset, hit Cai Be

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  144,

At 11:30 AM: Guide of RV Jahan Cruise will pick you up at Renaissance Riverside Hotel in Saigon, We gather before noontime at our welcome lounge in Saigon. Lean back with a drink as our staff welcomes you and collects your details for the boarding.

We bid farewell to the hustle and bustle of Saigon and travel 70 kilometers south overland to My Tho to embark your luxury floating home for your coming journey along the Might Mekong.

Upon boarding our crew warmly welcomes you and you check in to your prepared staterooms. The ship set sail and your fasctinating journey of exploring the Mekong can begin. Lunch buffet is served in the restaurant while the vessel steadily glides upstream to reach the overnight spot. Make yourself familiar with all the ship facilities. Now it is time to  become one with one of the largest streams in Asia.

The afternoon allows you pastime at your private balcony or join our tea time at the open air bar as the twilight  bathes the  land of Mekong Delta into a golden haze. 
During the time you savor your dinner the ship reaches Cai Be. Cai Be is a charming small town, famous for its Catholic French church and manufacturing of traditional crafts and food products. The floating market of Cai Be is getting smaller every year, since trading on the water is shifting more and more into modern central markets.

We drop anchor mid-stream and overnight near Cai Be.

Cai Be,Sa Dec,Tan Chau

• Activities:

  Explore floating market, stunning landscapes along the Mekong, cruise to Tan Chau

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  144,

Everyday, we offer to our guests an invigorating Tai Chi class on the sun deck. Set in your day like many local people do around Asia just as the sun begins its gentle glow.

A sumptuous buffet breakfast is the perfect start in your first exploration day in the Mekong Delta. The morning tour takes you Cai Be. We can still see some boat to boat trading of local goods such as fruits and agricultural products. Our guide explains the particularities of this long lasting dealing cutlture. Each boat has a special marker to let buyers know what goods they are selling.

Cai Be is a rustic town crossed by and many water canals. We go on-shore to visit a workshop where we learn about and observe how rice paste, rice paper, rice cookies or rice wine is manufactured. Cai Be and its surrounding areas are covered by palmtrees and hence the region is also famous for the production of coconut candies. With our local boat we continue to cruise through the lush and green canel network and can observe farmers working in the fields.

Back on board lunch is served and you have some time for yourself afterwards to either enjoy a true Vietnamese coffee at the bar or simply watch the life on the riverbanks floating by.

In the afternoon, we reach the area of Sa Dec. We embark a traditional sampan and tour towards Binh Thanh Island. This island is one of the larger ones in the vast stream of the Mekong. Some communities have settled here and make their living by growing water hyazinths. We visit exclusively one of those untouched areas. By wandering through the village we get a deep understanding of the native life. But moreover we can follow the whole process of ratt making. You can even try yourself the weaving  which is still done manually. We will meet also an old local people who shares with us their story on this island and they are happy for any chit-chat with you.

Back on board you may like to pamper yourself with a spa treatment or take a dip in our pool on the sun deck. Our expert guides offer a presentation on the “Life on the Mekong Delta” as the ship continues sailing to Tan Chau - the boarder town to Cambodia. We moor mid-stream near Tan Chau.

Dinner is served and afterwards you can join our evening cinema session (offered every night) featuring selected classic movies.

Tan Chau,Phnom Penh

• Activities:

  Discover around Tan Chau, reach a fish sanctuary, slowly move around the streets to see all the workshops, houses and domiciles, get to the border for Phnom Penh, enjoy the boat, reach to Phnom Penh

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  144,

Welcome to the fish sanctuary of Vietnam. Begin your day with a hearty breakfast at the dining hall or in the quiet sanctuary of your balcony.

Brace yourself for an excursion around Tan Chau, a pleasant, slow-paced town near the Cambodian border with a sizeable Chinese, Kinh and Khmer community. Once arrived on-shore we hop on “xeloi” to explore Tan Chau. A xeloi is a local vehicle which is still used as taxi in this region. We slowly move around the streets to see all the workshops, houses and domiciles. Get to feel the laid-back vibes of this place. We stop at the colorful local market near one of the ancient temples. This is the best time you can interact with the vendors of this friendly town to make your own bargain experience. We board our local boats and cruise along floating houses to finally reach a floating fish farm. This region is the source of fish production to be sold all over the world and we can see closely how fish farmings works.

Back on board our “home” we sail towards the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. Get ready for a fascinating and leisurely cruise through the deep Cambodia countryside towards Phnom Penh. The whole afternoon is at your own arrangements. This is the cruise part when even the last passenger will turn into cruise mode and hopefully experience the therapeutical influence this mighty river radiates. It is time for massages, time for sun bed relaxations, time for private balcony kick-backs - forsooth the time to merge with the river.

A culinary class if offered during the afternoon to sharpen your knowledge and skills on the local cuisine. Some may like to do a flying visit at the bridge - the captain always has a story to share about “his” river. “The Highway Blues” beckons as we float into a state of mild bliss and before you totally drift away join our afternoon high tea for some treats.

Dinner is served before we arrive in the capital of Cambodia around 8 o’clock. The boat docks at the pier of Phnom Penh. You are free to go for your first exploration by yourself. Stroll along the river promenade and watch the locals chit-chating, selling odds and ends or have a drink in one of the numerous bars (kindly inform our crew once you are leaving the ship on your own). 

Phnom Penh

• Activities:

  Have breakfast, disembark the cruise, transfer to hotel and explore the city of Phnom Penh

• Meal:

  Breakfast]

• Included:

  590,

Welome to Phnom Penh - the once called Paris of the East. Despite its rapid development, it has retained a lot of its rustic charm and elegance. It is an amazing town to bespeak centuries of incredible history and culture which can still be felt at many street corners.

After breakfast, we will check out RV Jahan Cruise at 08:00 AM, our guide will pick you up at Phnom Penh Pier and join in a transfer to hustle and bustle of Phnom Penh City. 

On arrival Phnom Penh, tourists will enjoy a cycle tour to explore the city. The first destination of today is sparkling and colorful Khmer-style Royal Palace. Built in 1866 by the Predecessors of King Norodom, the Royal Palace is the combination of Khmer traditional architecture and Napoleon architectural style. Royal Palace is an architectural complex of enchanting buildings: Throne Hall, Pochani Pavilion, Moonlight Pavilion, etc.

Not far from Royal Palace is the Silver Pagoda which possesses national treasures such as gold and jeweled Buddha statues. Among them, a life-sized gold Maitreya Buddha decorated with 9584 diamonds is the most precious. The next destination is not less attractive than Royal Palace.

The, we will go on exploring National Museum - a fine architectural structure, which is now exhibiting one of the world’s largest collections of Khmer art including sculpture, ceramics, carved works, and bronzes of different periods. You will have a tasty meal for lunch at a charity-run restaurant before conquering Wat Phnom – The highest peak in Phnom Penh for enjoying the great view to the whole city at sunset. Tourists will stay overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh

• Activities:

  Have breakfast, check out

• Meal:

  Breakfast]

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After breakfast at the hotel, if there is free time, you will have last minutes for going shopping some souvenirs or sightseeing before being transferred back to the airport for your onward flight. End of services!