Aqua Mekong

The Mekong,  Vietnam,  Laos & Cambodia

Hanoi

Luang Prabang

Siem Reap

Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s busy capital, sits at the junction of the Mekong and Tonlé Sap rivers. It was a hub for both the Khmer Empire and French colonialists. On its walkable riverfront, lined with parks, restaurants and bars, are the ornate Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and the National Museum, displaying artifacts from around the country. At the city’s heart is the massive, art deco Central Market.

Ho Chi Minh City

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.

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<ul><li>Sundeck</li><li>Gym</li><li>Library &amp; Game Room</li><li>Indoor Lounge &amp; Bar</li><li>Outdoor Lounge</li><li>Plunge Pool</li></ul>

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Trace the pulse of Southeast Asia along the timeless current of the Mekong – a river that has carried empires, beliefs, and daily life through centuries of change.This newly enhanced journey deepens its roots with a luxurious three-night cruise aboard the Aqua Mekong, where every stateroom opens to the river and every day invites intimate connection with its people and pace of everyday life. On land, linger longer in legendary cities – Hanoi's tree-lined boulevards and Confucion temples, Luang Prabang's gilded wats, Siem Reap's jungle-draped stone kingdoms, Phnom Penh's regal French avenues, and the restless energy of Ho Chi Minh City. Along the river, life reveals itself slowly: monks chat from hilltop pagodas, mat weavers work beside shifting reeds, floating villages ride and drift with the tides and travelers passing along. Take a bike ride through rice paddies, step into homes fragrant of jackfruit and song, or simply watch the dusk settle over lotus ponds from your private suite. What emerges is a portrait of Indochina not frozen in time, but richly alive – resilient, graceful, and ever flowing forward.

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