Australia’s leading Asia travel specialist, Travel Indochina, has released its 60 page 2013-14 Handmade Holidays Indochina brochure covering Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Mekong River Cruises, complete with three pages dedicated to river cruising information.
The Handmade Holidays range allows agents to tailor itineraries specifically to their clients’ needs. Complete with an extensive range of travel options – from economical through to indulgent – the brochure covers accommodation, day tours, and short stay packages up to 18 day multi-country tours.
The new Travel Indochina website has also just been launched, which for the first time ever encompasses the Handmade Holidays range, displaying the company’s full stable of tours and travel options in the one place.
The brochure contains a total of 18 new accommodation options, including 11 in Vietnam, three in Cambodia and four in Laos, as well as six new tours across the region.
New hotel highlights include:

1. Vietnam: Fusion Alya, Hoi An. Subscribing to a different concept, the hotel’s from price of $217pp per night includes all meals for guests of the resort’s 98 rooms;

1. Cambodia: Shinta Mani Hotel, Siem Reap, from $89pp per night. Created by the acclaimed architect Bill Bensley and inspired by Khmer design, the deluxe boutique hotel offers a quiet and leafy setting a short walk from the Old Market; and

1. Laos: Satri House, Luang Prabang, from $130pp per night. Formerly the house of a Lao prince, the stunning sanctuary retains old world architectural styles throughout its 29 rooms.

The new tours include:

1. An adventurous 4 day/3 night tour to one of Vietnam’s least known mountain regions, Ha Giang (‘Ha Giang and Beyond’) from $752 pp twin share;
2. A 4 day/3 night ‘Hoi An Golf Escape’ from $694 pp twin share that includes the chance to play the famous Greg Norman-designed Da Nang Golf Club (voted in the top 15 golf courses to open world-wide in 2010);
3. A 3 day/2 night tour to the sparsely populated province of Mondulkiri, dubbed the original ‘Wild East’ in northeastern Cambodia, to experience some of the country’s finest scenery including stunning waterfalls and dense forests, from $734 pp twin share; and
4. An exploration of the Laotian riverside towns of Nong Khiaw and Muang Ngoi only accessible by boat in a 3 day/2 night journey that includes a slow boat up the Nam Ou River, from $638 pp twin share.