Day 1 Friday  

Pick-up in Bangkok airport and transfer to Royal River Hotel 

The hotel has three diffenrent restaurants. One is a kareoke place. The other two where one is outside on the terrace and the inside serve really good food. I can recommend eating there.

Accomodation in Bangkok at Royal River Hotel

Day 2 Saturday

Pick-up after Breakfast for a boatride on the Klongs (canals) heading for  Bang Yai, which is an autentic area in Bangkok, and where turists rarely visit. Lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch you visit The Royal Boat Museum. Back to the hotel. In the evening you will be collected for a Dinner Cruise on Chao Phraya River. You will be served a great Thai Meal.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 3 Sunday

This day you are on your own  – you can go to the week-end market  Chatuchak – opened from 7 am to 6 pm, or you can do what you like the best.

Meals: Breakfast

You visit Ayutthaya the ancient city of  The King. It is 80 km north of Bangkok. Lunch in a local restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accomodation at Royal River Hotel

Day 5 Tuesday

After Breakfast you visit Wat Pho with the resting Buddha. He is 46 m long and 15 m tall.

After Wat Pho you visit the Grand Palace.  Remember  the dress code.  No sandals, dress must reach the knees and shoulders must be covered  (t-shirt with short sleeves  is ok)

Meals: Breakfast

Day 6 Wednesday  

7:30 am Pick-up at the hotel. Now you will go on an overland drive 250 km (3 ½ hours) to Aranya Prathet.

At 11 am arrival at the bordertown, where you cross to Cambodia. First you check-out from Thailand. Next you walk a short distance to the Cambodian check-in point. Here you fill in a form and you pay 1000 THB and you get a visa. When all this is done you leave the building. Your local cambodian guide will meet you and take you to the waiting Car/Minibus. The town on the cambodian site is called Poipet.

At 12 noon transfer to Battambang. Lunch in a local restaurant and dinner at the hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7 Thursday

A full days sightseeing in Battambang and the surrounding areas Phnom Banon a native village included. Lunch in a local restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

A trip to Pailin via Treng through dense rainforest. Lunch in a local restaurant in Pailin.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 9 Saturday 

You will leave Battambang on The Speedboat Ferry for Siem Reap via Tonie Lap. Transfer and check in at a good Turist Hotel  close to the city centre. In the afternoon you visit Angkor Wat and Phnom Bakhen.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 10 Sunday  

After Breakfast you visit The Angkor complex with the southern gate of Angkor Thom and Bayon, Baphoun,  Elephant Terracces, Leper King Terrace, and The Royal Palace Area included. You continue to explore the picturesque Ta Prohm, which almost disappeared into The Jungle, a strange unforgettable and exotic scenery. Those fantastic treeroots which push there way through the stone blocks to The Temple in a kind of  embracement give the visitors a feeling they will never forget. During the afternoon you visit Preah Khan a jungle temple, East Mebon and Pre Rup.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 11 Monday

After Breakfast you are taken approx. 45 min. out to the beauty of nature at Siem Reap with a stop to visit a local village. At arrival at the pier you enter a wooden boat for 1 ½ hours sailing on Tonle Sap Lake, also known as The Great Cambodian Lake. You are going to visit a floating village with houses, school, market and a police station. You will se the children swimming and you will visit a freshwater aquarium with several different fish.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 12 Tuesday

You can relax and do what you want this day. I would suggest a helicopter tour. The price is approx 100 USD but it is worth every  penny.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 13 Wednesday

You will be picked up for departure for Vietnam, Hanoi 20:55 VN800 REP – HAN, or another flight. At arrival you will be picked-up and transferred to your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast

Accomodation in Hanoi at Majestic Salute Hotel / Deluxe room

Day 14 Thursday

You will be collected in the morning and transferred to Halong Bay. When you have entered the Halong Jasmine sails are set, and you will sail through the bay while lunch is served. You pass the magic bay, where thousands of sculpture looking sandstone islands raise from the waves like dragon teeth. After lunch you will be taken for a short walk to one of the peaks with a fantastic view to the bay and The Halong Jasmines golden sail, you will swim at a quiet beach and sunbathe on the deck. Later that afternoon you will visit a fishing village, where you will get in contact with the fishermen who have been here through three generations. At sunset you will enjoy a cocktail while we watch the sun disappear and then you will have a fine meal in Jasmine's restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accomodation in Halong Bay on Jasmine Junk / Premium cabin

Day 15 Friday

After Breakfast transfer to your daytour boat, with your own private crew, and you will sail to the Bay's most untuched areas. You can swim in peaceful surroundings, you will visit watertunnels, fishing villages og you have a ride in a kayak. Lunch will be served by your private Chef. You return to Jasmine for the night.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 16 Saturday  

You greet the day doing Tai Chi exercises with the possibility of seeing the sunrise over the bay. After Breakfast you visit a chalk cave. Then you return to Jasmine and you will get the last glimse of Halong Bay while we cruise back to the pier.

Transfer to Hanoi and you will be dropped off at your hotel. Lunch and Dinner in a local restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 17 Sunday

A full day city tour in the charming capital Hanoi, with its ochre yellow buildings from the colonytimes, avenues with beautiful trees and a lot of ponds. You visit The One Pillar Pagode, modern formed like a lotus on its stalk. It emerges from the water only resting on a single stone pillar. Inside there is a statue of Goddes of Mercy with her legendary "thousand arms and thousand eyes”. From there find your way to The Litterature Temple to get an overview from Hanoi's culture and history During the afternoon you stroll through The Old Quarter's where 36 streets are named after 36 products, used by the natives, and you visit Hoa Lo Prison, famous in The States with the name Hanoi Hilton, it is also known as Hell on Earth. You enjoy one hour ride on a bicycle around the city. You visit The Lake of Restored Sword ( localy called Hoan Kiem Lake ) and it's Ngoc Son Tempel. 

This evening you will enjoy a puppet watershow. This is a unique Fine Art from North Vietnam with special designed scenes from everyday life and with lots of episodes from the national history. Lunch and Dinner in a local restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 18 Monday

Approx. 9 am you will meet a famous local Chef  from Hanoi. This elderly Lady has enherited a special form of cooking from her mother, who used to be Chef in The French Embassador in Hanoi in the feefties. You will walk with the Chef to an interesting market and enjoy the atmosphere in this daily local Hang Be market. You will be given the possibility to learn, how you pick fresh ingredients. After buying the raw material you will follow her to her cookingplace, to get a private demonstration of the art of cooking. Lunch is what you have prepared. Rest of the day you are on your own. Dinner in a local restaurant.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day19 Tuesday

Transfer to the airport for your homeflight. You can go back to Bangkok or you can leave for your home destination. It is also possible to go to a beach to relax for some days for an extra fee.