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Dates, Prices & Flight Information
Holiday ref: LCAM
Heathrow
Flights are by scheduled services of Thai Airways via Bangkok inbound only. Depart 2130 hrs / Return arrival 0620 hrs
2008
Oct 06
Holiday 2008 Dates price £1979 Holiday 2009 Dates price £1999 £1969 £1899 Oct 05 Oct 26 Nov 09
Holiday price Holiday price £2059 £2069 £2069
2009
Feb 09 Feb 23 Mar 09
Deposit £150 per person Single Room Supplement £290 Cambodia visa £32.50 / Vietnam visa £60.50 UK Airline Passenger Duty (£40) Included Overseas Airport Airline Tax Included All prices are per person based on two people sharing a twin or double-bedded room with private facilities
Fly From Your Local Airport from £29 For more information see page 6
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a continuous panorama of stilt houses, giant fishing nets, riverside life and fields of crops. Stops include a floating village and a hilltop temple. You will then emerge into the vast expanse of Tonle Sap Lake, the heart of Cambodia, and cross to the floating village of Chong Kueas near the eastern shoreline, before disembarking and driving the short distance to Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat, for a three night stay. DAYS 6 & 7 - Full sightseeing programme of the Angkor Complex. You will see Angkor Wat itself, plus many of the surrounding temples and monuments, including Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm, the Temple of Bayon and much more. (Please refer to page 56 for a full description of Angkor Wat and all that you will see.) We also include a special dinner on Day 7 accompanied by a display of Khmer Classical Dance. DAY 8 - Morning departure for the drive to Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia. The route passes through absorbing countryside and the towns of Kampong, Thom and Skuon, famous for the fried spiders offered for sale by local farmers! Afternoon arrival in Phnom Penh for a two night stay. DAY 9 - Once considered the loveliest of the Frenchbuilt cities in Indochina, Phnom Penh, situated on the River Mekong, is recovering rapidly from its turbulent past. Full sightseeing will include the magnificent Royal Palace, with its Silver Pagoda of 5000 silver floor tiles and priceless Buddhist treasures, the History Museum, the waterfront, the Russian Market, the Wat Phnom and the General Market. Dinner will be at the fabled Foreign Correspondents Club by the river. DAY 10 - Your exploration of the mighty River Mekong begins today. One of the worlds greatest rivers, the Mekong descends for 3,000 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, and is constantly busy with sampans, barges and houseboats in its lower reaches. You will travel by special fast cruise boat downstream from Phnom Penh, with stops at the Cambodian and Vietnamese border stations, to Chau Doc in Vietnam. Continue by road deep into the Mekong Delta. You will drive through traditional
villages, settlements and farmland, with a fascinating backdrop of homesteads on stilts, river fishing nets and rickety monkey bridges. Late afternoon arrival at Can Tho for an overnight stay at the delightful and romantic Victoria Hotel, situated on the banks of the Mekong. DAY 11 - Morning boat trip to the extraordinary floating market at Cai Rang. In contrast to such markets elsewhere, those on the River Mekong are much larger, and are conducted on much wider stretches of water. Return to Can Tho to explore this bustling township and important trading post on the busy Mekong. Depart by public ferry to Vinh Long, followed by a cruise by small boat through every shade of green along narrow inlets and canals to a lunch stop at a farmers house. Visits will be made to local workshops along the way. Very little has changed over the centuries in this part of Vietnam, and everything and everybody travels by boat. Finally, you recross the Mekong to Cai Be, and drive to Ho Chi Minh City, better known as Saigon, for a two night stay.
DAY 12 - Morning included city tour visiting the Presidential Palace, the War Museum and the famous shopping street formerly known as Rue Catinat. You will also pass Notre Dame Cathedral. This afternoon you drive to the Cu Chi Tunnels, an amazing series of underground passages. These were first constructed in the late 1940s by the peasant army fighting the French but were later extended by the Viet Cong rebels. DAY 13 - Transfer to the airport for your return flight to the UK. DAY 14 - Arrival in the UK.
SpEciAl NoticE During March, there is a possibility that the water levels in the Sangker River may fall below the levels required to operate our chartered boat on Day 5. In this unlikely event, the journey on Day 5 would be undertaken by road.
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