{"id":14826,"date":"2009-10-05T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/free-ho-chi-minh-city-stay-with-vietnam-cambodia-river-cruise-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-05T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:08:00","slug":"free-ho-chi-minh-city-stay-with-vietnam-cambodia-river-cruise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/10\/free-ho-chi-minh-city-stay-with-vietnam-cambodia-river-cruise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Ho Chi Minh City Stay With Vietnam &amp; Cambodia River Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borneo.com.au\/site_content\/images\/pandaw\/orientpandaw.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borneo.com.au\/site_content\/images\/pandaw\/orientpandaw.jpg\" width=\"420\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandaw.com\/\">PANDAW River Cruises<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Its boutique 32-cabin Mekong Pandaw and 38-cabin Tonle Pandaw operate these cruises from Ho Chi Minh City (formerly the French colonial Saigon) through culturally and geographically divergent Vietnam and Cambodia to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights along the way include the Vietnam Delta region, back-water village areas that can only be reached by the shallow-draught Pandaws and local \u201ccountry boats,\u201d a Cambodian orphanage funded by voluntary donations from Pandaw\u2019s guests, over-water villages, wetlands, the 60km wide Tonle Lake and the legendary temple complexes of Angkor Wat.<\/p>\n<p>The two nights given free as part of these package in January and February 2010 are at the 5-star Sofitel Plaza in Ho Chi Minh City, and would normally be valued at $248 per person; the hotel is located in the heart of the city close to the Notre Dame Cathedral, Reunification Palace and the bustling Central Markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pandaw-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}