Touch down in Phnom Penh, the graceful capital once known as the ‘Pearl of Asia.’ Your private guide welcomes you and transfers you to your hotel, leaving the rest of the day at leisure to explore independently.

A full day of discovery: a cyclo ride through the city, the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, and the sobering S21 Prison. Watch Apsara dancers train at a heritage arts academy before strolling the French Quarter. Board your luxury river cruiser by evening for an open-air barbecue, gala dinner and Apsara performance.

Sail before dawn onto the Tonle River. An ox-drawn cart carries you through rice paddies to a rural NGO school, or an ancient 300-year-old temple. By afternoon, wander the pottery village of Kampong Laeang before anchoring overnight at Kampong Luong.

Meet the silversmith families of Kampong Luong and visit the Royal Buddhist Temple of Wat Prang. In the afternoon, discover the silk-weaving village of Prek Bangkong at the meeting point of the Tonle and Mekong Rivers, including the heritage house of a former royal architect.

Meet monks and villagers at the riverside monastery of Angkor Ban. As the ship sails toward Kampong Cham, the afternoon is yours to unwind — a massage, time on your private balcony, or a hands-on Khmer culinary workshop.

A final breakfast aboard your floating sanctuary before disembarking and transferring overland to Siem Reap, a scenic four-hour journey through the Cambodian countryside.

Rise before dawn for sunrise over Angkor Wat. Explore the Great City of Angkor Thom — the smiling faces of Bayon, the pyramidal Baphuon and the Terrace of Elephants — before an afternoon inside Angkor Wat itself and sunset from Phnom Bakheng.

Journey beyond the crowds to Koh Ker, Cambodia’s 10th-century capital and its striking pyramid temple, then to Beng Mealea — a vast temple swallowed by jungle and barely restored.

The morning is yours at leisure until your private transfer to Siem Reap International Airport for your onward journey.