About Indochina Pandaw

Indochina Pandaw is one of three Vietnamese-built P class sisters, launched in 2009 alongside Orient Pandaw and Bassac Pandaw. Pandaw moved her to Burma in 2011 and she is now back on the Mekong, where her 28 teak-and-brass staterooms and 56 guests make her a mid-sized ship by Pandaw standards. The P class copies the look of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company steamers of the colonial era: wraparound promenade decks, brass fittings, a shaded sundeck and a shallow draft of about 1.5 meters.

Life on board is relaxed and social. Breakfast and lunch are semi-buffet, dinners are seated theme menus cooked by a local master chef, and there is a saloon bar with nightly entertainment, a sundeck bar and a 24-hour hospitality bar. The ship carries a Pandaw Spa with two massage rooms, a library, a lecture room and a fair-trade shop. Local guides lead every excursion, by coach, on foot and by sampan.

In 2026 and 2027 Indochina Pandaw sails the seven-night Classic Mekong between Saigon and Siem Reap, with published departures in November 2026 and from January through March 2027, alternating upstream and downstream. She suits travelers who want Pandaw’s small-ship, all-outdoors style on the Vietnam and Cambodia Mekong without the bigger hotel-style river ships on the same river.

• P class colonial design in teak and brass, a sister to Bassac Pandaw and Orient Pandaw
• 28 staterooms of about 170 square feet, each with a panoramic French window to the promenade deck
• Pandaw Spa with two massage rooms staffed by local therapists
• Shallow 1.5 meter draft that reaches Mekong stretches larger ships cannot
• Saloon bar with nightly entertainment, sundeck bar and a 24-hour hospitality bar
• Onboard bakery, local master chef and seated theme dinners
• Included excursions with coach, deluxe sampans and local English-speaking guides
• Seven-night Classic Mekong sailings between Saigon and Siem Reap in 2026 and 2027