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Luxury small ship river cruises in Asia

Combo Cruises

COMBO EXPEDITIONS

Pandaw is excited to announce the new combination cruise itineraries. Explore the rivers of Southeast Asia and India in more depth with uninterrupted back-to-back cruise expeditions on our distinctive ships.

Thoroughly explore Burma by combining some remote river cruises such as the Chindwin River or the Irrawaddy delta, with a coastal expedition through the Mergui Archipelago. Or experience four countries by adding a Red River cruise in North Vietnam to a voyage along the upper Mekong River through Laos, Thailand and Burma. Pandaw has recently launched India and we are excited to offer you a combination of the lower Ganges River and the Brahmaputra River in Assam.

All seven combo cruise expeditions range from 15 to 21 nights and include flights and hotels in between where necessary.

Join us in an exciting new adventure in Southeast Asia and India.

River Cruise Expeditions

Delta and Coast - All Southern Burma

Irrawaddy Delta - Kawthaung

18 nights

from US$5910

Chindwin & Mergui Archipelago

Monywa - Homalin - Rangoon - Mergui Archipelago

Save up to 10%

15 nights

from US$6807.60
members from US$6051.20

Chindwin & The Upper Irrawaddy

Monywa - Kalewa - Mandalay - Pagan

Save up to 10%

17 nights

from US$6390

Mergui Archipelago & Irrawaddy Delta

Kawthaung - Rangoon - Maubin

Save up to 10%

15 nights

from US$5319.90

Ganges & Brahmaputra

Kolkata - Guwahati - Jorhat

15 nights

from US$5255

Ganges River & Andaman Islands

Farakka - Kolkata - Port Blair - Diglipur - Port Blair

14 nights

from US$6712

Halong Bay, Red River & Laos Mekong

Save up to 10%

21 nights

from US$6504.30

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By the Old Moulmein Pagoda

By Paul Strachan, Pandaw Founder BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she....

Ava

“And here it may be said that of all the ruined capitals of Burma which make their appeal on behalf of the transitoriness of life. . . Ava is th....

Bassein

Pathein, also called Bassein, is a port city with a 2004 population estimated at 315, 600, and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Burma. It l....

Bogale

Bogale is a small city located in the Bogale Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. It is located on the southwestern part of Myanmar/Burma on th....

Chandernagore

Chandannagar was established as a French colony in 1673, when the French obtained permission from Ibrahim Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, to establis....

Chiang Saen

According to an ancient chronicle the original city of Chiang Saen (Chiang: "offshoot", saen: "100, 000") was built in 545 CE in an area called ....

Cruising The Mekong

Continue up the Mekong with Burma on our left and Laos on our right.....

Gaur

Gaur is a ruined city on the India-Bangladesh border.....

Guwahati

Guwahati; Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam, Gauhati in the modern era — is an ancient urban area, largest city of state, region, major metropoli....

Halong Bay

Halong Bay is located in the Gulf of Tonkin within Quang Ninh Province, most of which is uninhabited. It was added in 1994 to the UNESCO World H....

Hanoi

Hanoi’s prison Hao Lo was used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U. S. prisoners of war....

Homalin

You will pass the Uyu River, which was worked by gold washers on route to Homalin, the furthest navigable point on the Chindwin for vessels of o....

Jorhat

Jorhat is one of the major cities of Assam. Jorhat was the first town of the Greater Assam installing electricity supply in 1923. The first aero....

Kalewa

Kalewa is one of the largest ports on the Chindwin River and an important trans-shipment point for goods going to and coming from nearby India.....

Kalna

The town is more popularly known as Ambika Kalna, named after a very popular deity, Goddess Kali, Maa Ambika. It has numerous historical monumen....

Katha

The enchanting colonial town of Katha was setting for George Orwell’s Myanma Days. Katha was also the final resting place of the old flotilla an....

Katwa

A market town with narrow bustling bazaars.....

Kawthaung

Kawthaung is in the southernmost part of Myanmar, located in Tanintharyi Region. During British rule in Burma between 1824 and 1948, it was know....

Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. A World Heritage Site, the park ho....

Khanyat

Visit a Buddhist orphanage and the grave of an English officer assasinated here during the Pacification of Burma (1887).....

Kolkata

Kolkata also known historically in English as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hoogh....

Kyauk-Myoung

Visit the spectacular potteries near Kyauk-myoung We enter the Third Defile and sail upstream all day stopping at Khan-nyat village with its man....

Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang, is a city located in north central Laos, at the confluence of the Nam Khan river and Mekong River about 300 km....

Majuli, Neamati Ghat and Sibsagar

Majuli or Majoli is a large river island in the Brahmaputra River, Assam, India. Majuli is the largest river island in the world.....

Maubin

Ma-ubin or Maubin is a town in the Ayeyarwady Division of south-west Burma. It is the seat of the Ma-ubin Township in the Ma-ubin District. T....

Mawlaik

Mawlaik replaced Kindat as the administrative capital. Like other towns of the Upper Chindwin, they can only be reached by boat so cars are few.....

Mayapur

Mayapur is located on the banks of the Ganges river.....

Mergui

The Mergui Archipelago is an archipelago in far southern Myanmar (Burma) and is part of the Tanintharyi Region. It consists of more than 800 isl....

Mergui (Myeik)

Mergui (Myeik) is a city in Tanintharyi Region in Burma (Myanmar) located in the extreme south of the country on the coast of a peninsula on the....

Mingkin

Mingkin, with its Konbaung court style teak monasteries are sumptuously decorated. Mingkin may be described as the Luang Prabang of the Chindwin....

Mingun

We cast off early and stop at Mingun to see the largest working bell in the world and the unfinished pagoda that is the largest single mass of b....

Monywa

Entering the Lower Chindwin where the river widens and the forested hills fall away to farmland we pass a number of attractive villages. We will....

Moulmein (Mawlmyine)

Moulmein (Mawlamyine) also spelled Mawlamyaing is the fourth largest city of Burma (Myanmar), situated 300 km south east of Rangoon and 70 km so....

Murshidabad

Murshidabad is a city in Murshidabad district of West Bengal state in India. The city of Murshidabad is located on the southern bank of the Bhag....

Myaungmya

Myaungmya is a town in Myaungmya Township, Irrawaddy Region, Burma. The town is home to the Myanmar Union Adventist Seminary, a Seventh Day Adve....

Pagan

Pagan is one of the richest archeological sites in the world and the highlight of every tour through Myanmar. In between 11th and 13th century t....

Pak Beng

The small village of Pak Beng lies half-way between Huay Xai and Luang Prabang, perched high on the banks of the Mekong river. You will likely b....

Pak Lai

A French administrative town with many colonial buildings and a bustling local market. This town boasts the largest elephant festival in South E....

Phowin Taung

We are exploring the caves of Phowin with its beautiful mural paintings and Buddha statues....

Pyapon

Pyapon is a town and seat of Pyapon District in the Irrawaddy Division of Myanmar, along the Pyapon River, a tributary of the Irrawaddy River. I....

Rangoon (Yangon)

“Rangoon owes its history to two factors, the Shwe Dagon Pagoda and the River. The former made it a place of note in earlier ages; the latter ha....

Sailing towards Silghat

Silghat is a town located on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra, in Nagaon district, Assam. It is 48 km northeast of Nagaon. Major points of ....

Silghat

Pass Tezpur and a gigantic 3 Km long arched bridge arriving at Silghat, where we take an excursion through stunning countryside to a tea estate ....

Sitthaung

Near the mouth of the Yu River which drains the Kubu valley, Sitthaung was the final resting place of a number of IFC steamers scuppered there i....

Tagaung

Explore by foot the ancient city of Tagaung viewing the fortifications. In the evening we climb the Pagoda Hill at Tigyang with its stunning vie....

Tavoy (Dawei)

Tavoy (Dawei) is a city in southeastern Burma (Myanmar) and capital of Tanintharyi Region, formerly Tenasserim Division located about 614. 3 km ....

Toungdoot

Toungdoot or Hsawng-hsup in Tai, is an ancient Shan enclave which in British times still had a ruling prince or sawbwa complete with palace and ....

Towards Majuli

Visit a local village on what is the world’s largest river island and home to the ethnic ‘Mishing’ people. Here, women weave on hand-looms to cr....

Vientiane

Vientiane is the capital and largest city of Laos, situated on the Mekong near the border with Thailand. Vientiane became the capital in 1563 du....

Viet Tri

Viet Tri is the capital city of Phú Th? Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.....

Wakema

Wakema is a town in the Ayeyarwady Division of south-west Myanmar. It is the seat of the Wakema Township in the Myaungmya District. It is home....

River Cruise Ships

MY Andaman Explorer

The Andaman Explorer was built as the MV Atlantic Guard in 1963 in Norway as a Norwegian coast guard vessel. She is 61 meters long with her orig....

RV Angkor Pandaw

Sister to the Katha and from the same yard delivered in 2013, the only difference with the Katha is an enclosed air conditioned dining room insi....

RV Indochina Pandaw

Sister to the Orient and Bassac, the IP was built in Vietnam in 2009 and transferred over to Burma in 2011. The ship has quality mountain bikes ....

RV Kalaw Pandaw

Sister to the Kindat and identical in design the Kalaw was launched with her in 2014 Kalaw is named after the PS Kalaw launched in 1917 and sunk....

RV Kalay Pandaw

The Kalay Pandaw was built in Mandalay in 2013 by our own team from within the company. This river yacht was built for private friend and family....

RV Kha Byoo Pandaw

This ten cabin K class was completed in 2016 and is currently serving as the Pandaw Academy training ship at Pagan. Like so many of our K class ....

RV Laos Pandaw

Seeing the quality of this ship it is hard to believe it was built in a hurry. There are no proper ship yards above the Khone Falls and we could....

RV Orient Pandaw

The first ship we built in Vietnam in 2008, the OP has seen service in five countries now – Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysian Borneo and now Burma. W....

RV Zawgyi Pandaw

We acquired this Z craft in 2008 and fitted her out as a floating clinic as part of the Cyclone Nargis relief effort. Returned to us by the NGO ....

Rivers in Combo Expeditions

The Mergui Archipelago

Coastal cruises through the isolated Mergui Archipelago, a group of 800 islands in the Andaman Sea off Burma's southern coast, are a new venture....

Brahmaputra River

India's Brahamputura River is the 29th longest river in the world at 2, 948 km long, and has a discharge of 19, 200 cubic litres per second whic....

Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea, glimpsed at from the sandy shores of Phuket and southern Thailand is traversed only by the most intrepid of yachtsman. The sea ....

Chindwin River

The Chindwin River flows down from the Burma – Assam border area, its waters rising from the Himalayan foothills. It is the main tributary of th....

Ganges River

The Ganges River is the 34th longest river in the world at 2, 620km, flowing down through the Himalays to form the Gangetic Plain of North India....

Irrawaddy Delta

The Irrawaddy Delta covers an area of over 1000 square miles with Rangoon, its most famous port and capital of all Burma from 1886 to 2005. Orig....

Irrawaddy River

The Irrawaddy River in Burma ranks as the 55th longest river in the world at 2, 170km but it is in the top ten rivers in terms of discharge at 1....

Mekong River

The Mekong River is the 12th largest river in the world flowing 4, 350km from SW China to discharge into the sea through a vast delta in Vietnam....

Halong Bay & The Red River

The Song Hong or Red River rises deep in Yunnan mountains of south-west China to flow 714 miles (1, 149km) across Northern Vietnam to discharge ....

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