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…
The original Pacific Princess, a cruise ship that was towed this summer to Turkey to be dismantled for scrap, once was a sparkling television star. Though the show was a somewhat soppy sitcom called “The Love Boat,” it was so popular that it added the word “cruise” to the vacation dreams of millions of Americans.…
I love to board a cruise ship and offer my stressfully tight body to a massage therapist, so my muscles and mind are ready for relaxing days at sea. For this privilege, I’ve paid $80-$200, and it was money well spent. Massage tables for couples on the Royal Princess Still, all ship spas are not…
Santa met us at the embarkation gangway. He was five days early for gift-giving, but he set the tone for a two-week holiday cruise to the Caribbean. Behind him on Oceania’s Riviera, docked last December in Miami, four carolers, dressed in English style from the Dickens era, sang for each new group of passengers checking…
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…