Passengers on the Avalon Angkor cross into Vietnam on the Mekong, cruising backwaters for local markets and opportunities to meet people who live beside the rivers and channels.
Floating on the Tonle Sap toward Phnom Penh, stopping at ancient sites and visiting villages, passengers on Avalon Angkor begin to get a real picture of life in rural Cambodia.
After exploring Cambodia’s temples and ruins, and passing by such roadside delicacies as sparrows and rats, grilled crickets, spiders and roaches, we were ready for the comforts and kitchen of a fancy riverboat, Avalon Angkor.
Second in a series from the ruins and rivers of Southeast Asia A trip to Cambodia’s Angkor ruins surely is a bucket list event. Angkor Wat is the best preserved and most famous of the Angkor temples in Cambodia (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) Angkor was home more than 1,000 years ago to…
New riverboats are cruising in Cambodia and Vietnam. These vacation voyages are an eye-opener, not only to the famed stone Angkor ruins, but also to the lives of rural villagers who are emerging from decades of warfare and deprivation. A bamboo bridge in the Tonle Sap River was built in 3 weeks to link the…
“Our passions here are food and shopping,” said my Singapore guide, Naseem. “I could eat all the time. We eat, eat, eat,” usually about five small meals a day, she said. I agreed to try. We began a morning with Ya Kun Kaya Toast, a traditional breakfast of grilled brown bread with a slab of…
Cruise passengers will love Singapore as a home port for ships. It’s a great location for getting over jetlag before your cruise. Infinity pool on the 57th floor atop the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) Singapore, which began as a British trading post, is one of the world’s…
Singapore Good news for travelers: Singapore, a gateway to vacations in Southeast Asia, and one of my favorite home ports for boarding cruise ships, is anticipating an expanded fleet of big, modern vessels. They will be based at new and enhanced marinas, built here at a cost of half a billion dollars. Cargo ships anchored…