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RIVER CRUISE INTO ‘LOST CAMBODIA’ OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM
PANDAW River Cruises that operate replica 19th century colonial riverboats on the waterways of South-east Asia, will take guests on a rare cruise experience later this year into the upper reaches of the Mekong River and the little-visited “Lost Cambodia” of Somerset Maugham. Just two 10-night journeys will be made upstream from Saigon to Siam […]
Pandaw’s Maiden Ganges Cruise
by Paul Strachan, Founder Pandaw Cruises Now both the upstream and downstream voyages are over, I am taking stock and trying to work out if they were a success or not. My own feelings are mixed, as are the evaluations and reports we receive from the intrepid who came with us. Some say it was […]
Pandaw’s Maiden Ganges Cruise
by Paul Strachan, Founder Pandaw Cruises Now both the upstream and downstream voyages are over, I am taking stock and trying to work out if they were a success or not. My own feelings are mixed, as are the evaluations and reports we receive from the intrepid who came with us. Some say it was […]
Free Ho Chi Minh City Stay With Vietnam & Cambodia River Cruise
PANDAW River Cruises that operates replicas of yester-year 19th century river-boats on the rivers of South East Asia, is offering two free 5-star hotel nights in Ho Chi Minh City as part of its 8-day Mekong Expedition Cruises in Vietnam and Cambodia in January and February next year. Its boutique 32-cabin Mekong Pandaw and 38-cabin […]
Free Ho Chi Minh City Stay With Vietnam & Cambodia River Cruise
PANDAW River Cruises that operates replicas of yester-year 19th century river-boats on the rivers of South East Asia, is offering two free 5-star hotel nights in Ho Chi Minh City as part of its 8-day Mekong Expedition Cruises in Vietnam and Cambodia in January and February next year. Its boutique 32-cabin Mekong Pandaw and 38-cabin […]
Pandaw Cruises: Rajang River Rapids
This was the hairy bit. River level was down, rocks poking out everywhere, but the local skipper just kept the boot in and a huge 1000hp twin turbo MTU marine diesel just screamed. The boats are easily 30m long, so they’re not dinghies. The guy hanging on for all crap in front of me is […]
Pandaw Cruises: Rajang River Rapids
This was the hairy bit. River level was down, rocks poking out everywhere, but the local skipper just kept the boot in and a huge 1000hp twin turbo MTU marine diesel just screamed. The boats are easily 30m long, so they’re not dinghies. The guy hanging on for all crap in front of me is […]
Cruise Weekly: An empire experience along Borneo’s Rajang River
A neatly arranged set of wicker chairs under a sprawling awning on the top deck is peopled by a selection of the Empire’s finest citizens. Urbane conversation on the arts, literature and geography can be heard above the clink of ice in glasses of gin and tonic. A timeless vesselThis scene could be either one […]
Cruise Weekly: An empire experience along Borneo’s Rajang River
A neatly arranged set of wicker chairs under a sprawling awning on the top deck is peopled by a selection of the Empire’s finest citizens. Urbane conversation on the arts, literature and geography can be heard above the clink of ice in glasses of gin and tonic. A timeless vesselThis scene could be either one […]
CRUISE BACK IN LUXURY TO DAYS OF BORNEO’S COLONIAL RAJ
Pandaw River Cruises will begin luxury 8-night cruises into the spectacularly wild heartland of Borneo in July, a jungle region little-visited by tourists because of its remoteness. The replica colonial-era riverboat, Orient Pandaw will carry just sixty guests in thirty staterooms, sailing the swift-flowing Rajang River from Sibu to Kapit, the wild Pelagus Rapids, Song, […]
