Thailand, Laos and Cambodia in 13 Days: Chiang Mai, Luang Prabang and Angkor

Your guide meets you at Chiang Mai airport for a lunch of khao soi, then a longtail boat ride on the Mae Ping River with a stop at a farmer's home. Walk through Warorot Market, the city's oldest, and enjoy a khantoke dinner with Lanna dances in the evening.Overnight: Chiang Mai · Meals: L, D

Visit the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden in Mae Rim with its orchid glasshouses and canopy walkway. In the afternoon, drive up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, see the forest temple of Wat Pha Lat and sit with monks at Wat Suan Dok to talk about Buddhist life.Overnight: Chiang Mai · Meals: B

Meet umbrella painters, woodcarvers and silk weavers in the villages east of Chiang Mai, then drive to Chiang Rai with a stop at Singha Park, a landscape of tea fields and lakes. In the evening, a tuk tuk ride takes you to the clock tower and the night market.Overnight: Chiang Rai · Meals: B

Drive to the Golden Triangle and visit the House of Opium museum, then take an hour-long boat ride on the Mekong. After a Thai set lunch, continue to Mae Sai, Thailand's northernmost town, before returning to Chiang Rai.Overnight: Chiang Rai · Meals: B, L

Drive back to Chiang Mai airport for your flight to Luang Prabang, direct or via Bangkok depending on the day. Your Lao guide meets you on arrival. Spend the rest of the day settling in, with a first stroll along the Mekong as the evening light fades.Overnight: Luang Prabang · Meals: B

Walk the lesser-known lanes of the old town, visit Wat Sene and Wat Xieng Thong and stop for coffee at Heuan Chan, a restored noble house. Continue to the Royal Palace Museum and Wat Mai, climb Mount Phousi for sunset if you wish and end at the night market.Overnight: Luang Prabang · Meals: B

Take a boat upstream to Ban Xang Hai and the Pak Ou Caves, filled with thousands of Buddha images. In the afternoon, visit the pottery village of Ban Chan, where jars are fired in kilns dug into the earth, and cruise back at sunset.Overnight: Luang Prabang · Meals: B

Watch the alms round at dawn and browse the morning market. Visit a community rice farm in the hills, then swim in the turquoise pools of Kuang Si Falls and see the Bear Rescue Centre, with a stop at Ock Pop Tok on the way back.Overnight: Luang Prabang · Meals: B

Fly to Siem Reap, direct or via Vientiane or Bangkok depending on the day. Your Cambodian guide meets you and takes you to the Artisans d'Angkor workshops and the Old Market. Dinner tonight comes with a performance of Apsara dance.Overnight: Siem Reap · Meals: B, D

Watch dawn break over Angkor Wat, then explore its carved galleries. Continue to Angkor Thom, the faces of the Bayon and the royal terraces. After lunch, wander through Ta Prohm, where trees grow through the towers, and end with sunset from Pre Rup.Overnight: Siem Reap · Meals: B, L

Climb the hilltop temple of Phnom Bok, enjoy a picnic lunch in a village and continue north to Koh Ker, a 10th-century capital where a seven-tiered pyramid rises from the forest.Overnight: Koh Ker · Meals: B, L, D

Explore Beng Mealea, a temple still wrapped in jungle, and visit the monastery of Pouk on the way back to Siem Reap. Relax with a one-hour massage before dinner.Overnight: Siem Reap · Meals: B, L, D

Take a boat through a floating village on Tonle Sap Lake, then transfer to Siem Reap airport for your flight home.Meals: B