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In 2010, I cruised the Mekong with my daughter, then 15 years old. In preparing for the trip, we thought about the long flight, the heat, the paperwork we would need and about the cruise itself. I assumed that we would like the cruise but that the travel and the heat and being in a nation where we were once at war would diminish the experience.

Seldom have I been more wrong. We loved Vietnam and Cambodia, and we’re now big fans of cruising the Mekong. The experience was one of the best of my life, and it’s something that neither one of us will ever forget. Read more about cruising the Mekong.