Top 5 boats in Mekong delta

RV Jahan cruise
Launched in 2010, the RV Jahan cruise is the newest member of the Mekong River Boat Collection, and a baby brother to the famous Jayavarman containing 26 cabins at 4-star standard. The new flagship Jahan Cruise brings river cruising on the Mekong River into a new territory. The singular feelings of a luxury boutique hotel, the relaxing pace of a river cruise and the great opportunity to gain many new useful experiences, are some of many characteristics of Jayavarman. Sapa hiking trails
Jahan cruise
The charming beauty of the interior or exterior decorations shows us the exceptional talents of local carpenters, weavers and artists. When not feeling relaxing in your luxurious cabins, you can go out to meet your friends in the spacious East India Club; immerse in the Jacuzzi of the Pool Deck; take part in a game of chess in the Observatory Lounge to make friend with the other guests; or simply enjoy a cherish massage in the Apsara Spa. With three spacious decks, this vessel is able to provide all the best facilities of an outstanding resort, such as a fitness center, steaming rooms, a wide variety of dining venues as well as an excellent spa. One Day Tour of Battambang Cambodia

La Marguerite
With the elegant setting for the unlimited river cruise through two exotic countries, Vietnam and Cambodia, this vessel is a boutique five-star floating hotel suitable to travel along the beautiful Mekong River. With the help of all the staffs who have comprehensive knowledge of the region you will have a chance to know about cultural traditions and customs while being able to take part in as many activities as you wish.

Relax in the tranquil and comfortable air-conditioned lounges and on the Sun Deck of the vessel while enjoying the magnificent views they offer, be amused with a variety of games, free wireless internet access in certain areas, DVDs and music or cherish yourself in the stunning spa or work out in the fitness centre are many activities to keep you comfortable all the time.

Le Cochinchine cruises
Especially taking its guests into close contact with local people from every corner of the delta, Le Cochinchine will offer you abundant opportunity of admiring the Mekong Delta in its authenticity by letting you insight of this exotic land. Biking tour around the peculiar villages and tasting the special local food will bring you an unforgettable vacation.

In all cabins and public areas, safety instruction signs and life jackets kept in your wardrobe and also in main public areas are available to ensure the safe of all travelers. In case of urgency, each traveler is required to move at once to the gather stations indicated with signs and bide instructions.
With all of our friendly, passionate and professional staffs, our Indochina Voyages is proud to bring you a memorable journey on Le Cochinchine cruises at comparative price. Choose us as your perfect parter.

Mango Cruises in Mekong Delta
For overnight cruise, the vessel offers three sampans including: Sampan Bougainvillea, Sampan Frangipani and Mango Junk/ Lily May. All the cabins here are 22 meters in length by 4.5 meters in width capable of accommodating 6 people at maximum. Each cabin contains a front room where you can enjoy the spectacular views of this land, Master Bedroom with air condition, private bathroom fully equipped with bathtub, living room together with 2 bedrooms included an air condition and an open dining area off the back. All of them are at high standard to ensure to bring you the best services.
With many years experience in providing wonderful cruises on the Mekong Delta, our Indochina Voyages is proud to bring you unforgettable journey on the Mango Cruises at fair price.

Food in South Vietnam

“Tam Ky” chicken rice – the best rice you should try in middle of Vietnam
As we known, “Tam Ky” rice chicken is the famous dish in Da Nang, Hoi An, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai. This rice chicken in here has many different flavors that nowhere have this thing. So that, this delicious dish is also unforgettable dish as the tourist will want to try by the chance to visit Da Nang, Hoi An, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai. Tours in Indochina

This chicken rice plate
In some place we mention about, we can’t not mention about Quang Nam, because chicken rice in Quang Nam is the best. Today, there are a lot of stalls, restaurants, shops serve this delicious dish, but we will talk about the most famous restaurant for chicken rice in here. That is Ms Luan special chicken rice. This restaurant has many branches in Ho Chi Minh and some place in Da Nang. It is very crown.
Chicken rice at Ms Luan is now still famous. The way to cut or shred chicken rice dish with a fork milling lap famous fried spicy fragrant, hard abdomen and then that mouth gorge still craving more.

“Sa Dec” Noodles – thing to eat with flavor of Mekong delta in Vietnam
Noodle dish is popular with many southerners. However, many diners interesting dishes, flavor countryside must mention this special dish.
Besides rice-noodle brand Tho, nine dragon lands exist other rice-noodle brand infatuation hearts - rice noodles. Sweet fragrant rice noodles in this town. Tips to visit markets in Can Tho

An attractive dish
Noodles fiber is made ​​from rice flour, milk white. It were big, soft fiber, moderate toughness and not friable. When swallowed, if you look closely you will see stem sweet flavored noodles.

To eat this type of noodles, customers can call the meat, bone dry or preferences. Meat and bone are processed in this article remain soft, delicious. Soup is available spices like MSG, sugar, salt ... that is tunnel from pork bones.
Steaming bowl of noodle of their orders, as well as at the customers took a deep breath to feel the taste of food in the air dryer. In the bowl of noodles, meat apart with your stomach, heart, liver ... To enjoy and feel the flavor blending in the mouth, many people can put more fish sauce, soy sauce, or little vinegar, chili with live prices.

Bros coffee at Can Tho:
Located just started embankment 3/2, Bros Coffee recently become a familiar destination for young people in Can Tho by the lightness, comfort brought by the space bar. Right from arriving, you will be attracted by the greenery is arranged in a fairly balanced overall internal consistency. The first feeling was really cool covers.
From the outside looking in, shop decorated with open space, two blocks covered with tile roofs, large trees like coffee garden, paved road ... The patio beehive hanging lamp arrays. At night when the yellow light pours through the power is on the lake side of the area, combined with quiet music in the background giving the space a tranquil and romantic.

When you come here, you can choose to sit on the wooden benches or sitting high. People come here often choose to sit next to the aquarium to enjoy the fresh air. Customers feel more relaxed when watching the koi fish swim around.
The coffee shop serves more towards customers, from families to public employees, students ... morning is the busiest time of shop. Evenings quite busy because there serving outside country music. The number of customers is shopping around 300-400 visitors day, and more crowded on the weekend.

At the restaurant offers both food and drinks. Breakfast with beef, pasta, noodles , especially of Japanese udon noodles . Cream the cream of France. Also popular drinks, the bar also has specific types of European countries.

Phnom Penh in Cambodia

Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia, a developing country in the heart of Southeast Asia. It conjures the images of a glorious and mysterious past and rich of the cultural heritages. Phnom Penh is a really fantastic place that you can not miss out on the trip to Cambodia.

Phnom Penh is located in the Southern of the country and at the influence of 3 rivers: the mighty Mekong, the Bassac and the great Tonle Sap. This city became the permanent capital of Cambodia in the late 19th century during the reign of King Norodom.

There are many ways to get to Phnom Penh. It can be reached by either domestic, international flight or speedboat from neighboring provinces. It does not take too much time to go from The Phnom Penh International Airport and the Port of Phnom Penh to the city center. To travel the city, you can catch a taxi, a motorcycle taxi, a bus or rent a bicycle to visit the city on your own. All of these ways are offered with very reasonable prices.

Ways to get from Siem Riep to Phnom Penh

Siem Riep and Phnom Penh are the most famous and attractive tourist destinations
in Cambodia. There are many transportation options for tourist’s choice to go between these 2 places. Each of them has its own pros and cons. Let’s check them
all and have for your own the most suitable one. Visit Indochina holidays Cambodia

Airplane

Airplane is the fastest but also the expensive way to travel from Siem Reap to
Phnom Penh. This option is suitable with tourists who do not have much time and
who are willing to spend a lot of money on traveling. There are 5 to 6 flights a day
with the service offered from 3 airlines (Cambodia Angkor Airline, Bayon Airline
and Bassaka Airline). The price of a 45-minute one way flight is about 40 dollars
to more than 100 dollars.

Taxi

There are 3 kinds of taxi you can take: normal taxi, mini- van taxi and shared taxi.
Taxis between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap cost between 65 to 85 dollars and
takes 5 to 6 hours. It can be hired in airports, any guest houses and hotels.
This is a private taxi so its capacity is no more than 4 people.
In contrast, mini-van taxi can carry up to 15 people. It costs between 100 and
180 dollars per one car. You can hire mini-van taxis in many tourist areas in
Siem Reap and Phnom Penh.

Another option is shared taxi. The taxi used for this service is a 5-seater
Camry but the driver often waits for 6 passengers to go. The price is between
12 dollars per one tourist. You may have to pay extra money for the front
seat.


Boat

Taking a boat from Siem Riep to Phnom Penh sounds to be the most interesting
but adventurous way. On the high level water season, there are usually scores
more onboard than there are seats for. Therefore you can sit on top and watch
the countryside goes by. The ticket costs about 35 dollars. Depending on the
season and water levels, the trip can take between 4 to 8 hours.

Top places to kayak in Cambodia
There are many places to visit while travelling to Cambodia. If you come to the river or lake here, you will have a chance to kayak which is an attractive activity that you can’t miss. Here are some places to kayak in Cambodia:
Se San River
Se San River is located through Ratanakiri and Stung Treng province with than 200 km west the river joins the mighty Mekong Delta.  Most of these villages are only accessible by the river. Kayaks therefore are a sublime way of transportation.

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You can see tribal farming areas and bamboo forests then reaching primary jungle and a hill with a beautiful view over the jungle canopy and the Se San and mountains in the distance. You also trek a short jungle, watch the impressive waterfall and visit hill tribes.

Things to Know about Sapa Before you Go

Sapa is a lovely hill station town in Northern Vietnam near the Chinese border. The region as also known as “the Tonkinese Alps” and it’s culturally rich with different hill tribe minorities, lush mountain ranges, rice fields and an overall, breathtaking views! Once there, you’ll easily understand what the hype is all about. Shops selling tobacco, trekking clothes and souvenir crafts from the hill tribes will help you burn your dong, but nothing beats a good massage! The town is completely walkable but if you want to explore outside of town, it’s best to do it by motorbike if you can. Indochina holidays
Getting to Sapa There’s two ways to get to Sapa- by over night train or bus. The train from Hanoi to Lao Cai station takes around 9 hours. After arriving into Lao Cai station, you’ll need to hire a shuttle bus or taxi to Sapa town. There are sleeper buses that you can book through your hotel from Hanoi to Sapa station. (more information on wikipedia ) 2. Roads to Sapa are winding, minibus drivers can be reckless It takes about one hour to get from Lao Cai to Sapa and the roads wind. Both coming and leaving, there was at least one passenger who got sick. It happens. Cost for this shuttle bus is anywhere from around $2.50-$3.00. Adventure the winding North West
 Tip: Bring a plastic bag for emergencies.
 
 3. A room for one can be spacious
 So the thing people say about being a solo traveler and having to deal with single supplement fees?.. I finally had to deal with it. All of $3 more. On D Phan Si/Fansipan Road, I was put in the Cat Cat Hotel. My room had a shared outdoor deck, an awesome view and I had three beds all to myself. At night, it was especially romantic with the misty mountains outlined against the night skies and… stars! Check out hotels in Sapa.
 4. Time of travel
Sapawelcomes a lot of tourist every year. The most appropriate time to get to Sapa is from September to November or from March to May because when the weather is favorable, natural scenery is more beautiful as well. In the summer, visitors can avoid the heat in the city with a trip to Sapa. Time of travel If you go to Sapa in this period, you will have good chance to admire the terraced fields with brightly colored yellow. In the winter, the weather (From November to Feb), the weather will be very cold. Visitors also have the opportunity to look at the white snow. If you visit Sapa in Summer of Vietnam or in week-end, there are a lot of Vietnamese to go there. The services in Sapa can be fully booked and the price will be more expensive than week-day or other months.
 5. Variety of Food
Sapa has a good selection of international restaurants, cafes and street food to choose from. P Cau May road houses many international food joints, while the street perpendicular and aligning with Sapa Square strings a walkway of Vietnamese street food, where you can sit in the open on plastic chairs on the sidewalk to eat. The food in Sapa bats eye-to-eye with Hanoi. So far, it’s the best food I’ve had my entire trip! The food was fresh, made with care and well-flavored. Below is my lunch at a cafe. Fresh tomato soup made from scratch. Delicious!
 6. Shopping in Sapa
You can make shopping in Sapa town market. There are a lot of kind products there. You also make shopping at Sapa Square: apa town’s Main Square: A 5 minute walk to the Main Square, you’ll find hill tribe vendors with crafts ranging from bags, wallets and pillow covers. In Sapa town or in ethnic minority villages, you can see Black Hmong elders in their traditional clothes, The elder woman in the middle shows me the hemp string they use to stitch their crafts with Tip: If you buy these products, you must: 1) keep them separate from your clothes and 2) set the dye before you wear/use any of them (usually several washes with vinegar and salt should help, but it will take time for the dye to seal itself in the fabric)