The day begins early on the Mekong. We are woken at 6am by the clatter of ox carts coming to take us to a Cambodian village, the swoosh of fishermen dredging sea snails beside our ship or the chimes of xylophones drifting from a riverside Buddhist temple.
There is always so much to pack into the hours on board our 56-passenger vessel, including visiting local weavers or silversmiths, being blessed by monks, braving the streets of Phnom Penh in a rickshaw or taking a sampan to a floating market.
Even so, the 270-mile cruise takes up just half of our 15-day adventure, starting in Hanoi and ending in Ho Chi Minh City, taking in the 12th-century Angkor Wat temple… Read the full story