A ship carry tourists to explore Ha Long Bay. (Photo: VNA)The four itineraries were listed in an article published onMarch 11, by Heidi Sarna - the cofounder of QuirkyCruise.com, which is designedto share reviews and news about small-ship cruises around the world.
According to Heidi Sarna, during the 10-day itinerary to explorethe Red River and Ha Long Bay, a small ship covers several hundred milesbetween Ha Long Bay and Hoa Binh province in northern Vietnam, spending a fewdays in the picturesque and otherworldly limestone karst–studded Ha Long Bay,which is the dramatic backdrop to films like Indochine (1992) and The QuietAmerican (2002).
Except for a day in frenetic and fascinating Hanoi, which isnotable for its colonial architecture, war heritage, and foodie culture, therest of this route is spent on the Red River and its tributaries, which reachinto the rural landscapes and small towns of Vietnam’s heartland.
The author also revealed several rewarding ways to spend timeoff the ship, including village walks, kayaking in Ha Long Bay, watching atraditional water puppet show, taking tours of heritage sites, and getting aclose-up look at traditional methods for making ceramics, furniture, rice wine,knives, and noodles.
Meanwhile, on the classic weeklong Mekong itinerary cruisesbetween river points near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Siem Reap, Cambodia,the riverscape varies from remote and pastoral on the Cambodian side - wherepassengers can spot people bathing and slapping laundry against stones at theriver’s edge - to the more industrial and bustling Vietnam part of the river.
On excursions, passengers can walk through villages and pastpicture-perfect rice fields and venture into pungent wet markets and floatingfish farms./.
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