Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Phnom Penh : Bassac

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Pick your own itinerary if you would rather charter a boat and run along your own route.

Pick one port of call for each day of cruise¹.

For instance, for a two-night cruise, pick the place of departure, the port of call on day two, and the destination. The trips between Chau Doc or Vinh Xuong and Phnom Penh are extensions on board speedboats.

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Program of the journey: Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Phnom Penh

[image] Cao Lãnh - Châu Đốc - Phnom Penh

Cao Lãnh, on the first day at noon

Boarding at Cao Lanh at noon, welcome drink, introduction to the ship and crew, checking into the cabins.
Breakfast is served as the Bassac gets under way towars Cho Moi on a small tributary to the Tiger river
By mid-afternoon, the Bassac drops the anchor for the visit of a late XIXth century Franciscan monastery on shore.
After boarding back before dusk, and a welcome drink, the Bassac resumes her trip.
Dinner is served en route.
The Bassac drops anchor on Song Hau, the Bassac river, for the night, after rounding Cho Moi district through the Vam Nao river.

Day 2

Breakfast is available from 6:30 on, as the Bassac resumes her progress towards Chau Doc, upstream of river Bassac.
Upon arrival at Chau Doc, transfer to a local boat for the visit of a floating fish farm on the way and a village of the muslim Cham minority.
Transfer early in the morning on board a speedboat, which takes you to the frontier post at Vĩnh Xương for the emigration formalities.
Once the formalities have been expedited, boarding back onto the speedboat and departure towards Phnom Penh.
Arrival at the pier on the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh about three and a half hours after departure, and end of services.

End of services on shore at Châu Đốc.

Please note you will leave the Bassac for good upon transfer to the speedboat.

Site map & Footnotes

The cruise typically starts at noon on the first day and ends by mid-morning on the last day. ↩