Vietnam river cruises spend their days deep in the Mekong Delta, the watery maze of channels, islands and floating markets where the great river splits into its final arms before the sea. Almost every Mekong River cruise runs between the energy of Ho Chi Minh City and the Cambodian border at Tan Chau, trading the wide main channel for narrow, palm-lined canals as it goes.
The pleasure is in the detail. You will drift through Cai Be’s floating market, watch coconut candy pulled by hand near My Tho, wander the flower nurseries and literary streets of Sa Dec, and see silk woven the old way at Tan Chau. Many cruisers add the north too, pairing the Delta with Hanoi’s Old Quarter and the limestone seascape of Ha Long Bay.
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