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Cycling holiday to Indochina and Angkor Wat

COUNTRY:
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
LOCATION:
Indochina
HOLIDAY TYPE:
Moderate cycling holidays
DEPARTURES:
2012: 10 Mar, 14 Apr, 21 Jul, 4 Aug, 15 Sep, 29 Sep, 6 Oct, 13 Oct, 27 Oct, 3 Nov, 10 Nov, 17 Nov, 8 Dec, 15 Dec, 22 Dec
2013: 12 Jan, 26 Jan, 9 Feb, 23 Feb, 9 Mar, 23 Mar
PRICE:
From £1879 - £2349 (16 days) including UK flights
MORE INFO:
From £999 - £1049 excluding flights. Single supplement £200.
VOUCHERS:
Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday
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Cycling holiday to Indochina and Angkor Wat

Cycling holiday to Indochina and Angkor Wat

Small group adventure holiday
Typically you will be sharing your experiences with between 4-20 like minded travellers (depending on the trip, operator and how many others are booked on the trip) and you'll have a group leader with you. Whether you are travelling alone or with friends its good value, and a great way to meet new people! While itineraries are pre-planned there is some flexibility and you'll have plenty of privacy. This trip will appeal to travellers of all ages who enjoy meeting new people as well as seeing new places.

How this holiday makes a difference

Community
We use a locally based operator for this trip and have established a long-term partnership, assisting with local staff training in all aspects of their jobs. This investment we hope will help improve their knowledge and future prospects. All our Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese leaders are committed to Responsible Tourism and receive regular updates and training via us and our local partners. The leaders will give a briefing on Responsible Tourism issues to help you understand how you can help reduce your impact and maximise the benefits to the local communities from your visit.

During the trip we use 3 separate leaders so that clients have a Thai leader in Thailand, Cambodian leader in Cambodia and so on. This ensures that leadership skills and pay are not retained exclusively by one country and provides clients with first hand knowledge of the culture, customs and history of the places they visit.

We use predominantly locally owned and run accommodation, including a village home stay in the Mekong Delta. This contributes directly to the local community as local staff are employed and locally produced and sourced goods are bought for the accommodation benefiting the wider community.

Environment
This tour has been designed to both operate in a way that minimises our impact on the environment that we visit and to maximise the benefit that our clients can have on the host community. As this is a cycling trip, we have reduced our environmental impacts and carbon emissions as well as being able to have a much greater interaction with the local communities we visit along the way

At our offices we have worked to reduce our carbon footprint through a reduction of energy use and energy conservation measures. We also actively try to reduce the waste produced by having active reduction and recycling policies in place. We run annual staff workshops on Responsible Tourism.

Global warming is a reality and to help you make a difference by reducing the carbon dioxide that is produced when you travel we offer a chance to carbon balance your flights. We encourage all our clients to do this and do so for all our staff travel. Go on do your bit!

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Story of the holiday provider

The product manager who put together the cycling holidays for this company was a true pioneer - he cycled all 7 continents, including virtually all of Australia, and obtained special permission to traverse the Antarctica. His enthusiasm was infectious; there are now more cycling racks at this company’s office than car parking spaces. Your guides won’t follow stringent itineraries thus offering you greater flexibility. If you’re on a bicycle you can escape the crowds, access remote areas, and get closer to the country you’re in as opposed to seeing it from behind the windows of a sealed coach.

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Cycling holiday to Indochina and Angkor Wat

Cycling holiday to Indochina and Angkor Wat

Reviewed 04 May 2011 by Ian MacEachern5 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Songkran, meeting the group, interacting with the locals and having a
fantastic tour guide to help us get the most out of fantastic places.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Take a gel seat, water bottle a two pairs of cycle shorts

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


yes - all provisions and services were provided by locals and the
relationship the guide had with them was obviously due to good relationships
in place.

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


Excellent - thank you very much

Reviewed 19 Feb 2010 by Tom Mc Conalogue4 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


I think the most memorable was the killing fields and the prison we visited in Phnom Penh for the memory of the horror perpetrated on such a beautiful and peace loving people. Also memorable were the days cycling around Angkor, stopping in a temples and roadside craft shops. Hard to compare in some ways since we had so many different experiences along the way

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Be pretty fit. Some of the cycles were long and in hot and humid conditions. I would also suggest getting to Bangkok aat least a day before the group to get over the jet lag

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


Well, it benefited local people in the sense that we spent our money in parts of the country which were not pasrticularly tourist traps. The fact that we rode on bikes and ate local produce most of the time also made a contribution

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


I really enjoyed the experince. Getting to see three countries off the beaten track was an experience and we were all the time active on the holiday

Reviewed 26 Sep 2010 by Fon Atang3 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Cycling in Thailand.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


As a person of African origin, I personally will NOT be returning to Cambodia or Vietnam in the near future. I was the only black person in my group. In fact I did not see any other blacks in these countries. I was made to feel very uncomfortable by the locals. I don’t know if it was just curiosity at seeing a black person but I was always pointed out be them to their friends/family. They would look at me, mutter something in their language then laugh at my expense I can only assume. At first I thought I was being paranoid and just imagining things but It happened with such frequency that I could not ignore it. This really put a damper on the holiday to the point that I was reluctant to leave the hotel after the cycling. Obviously this is not a complaint against the operator, I just want to alert any potential customers of African origin to be aware of this

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


I suppose so

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


8/10.
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