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Travel Weekly’s Michelle Baran traveled on the Cambodia-Vietnam itinerary for Ama Waterways’ new ship, the AmaLotus. Pictured here, the AmaLotus on the Mekong River. Photos by Michelle Baran. Posted: Nov. 10, 2011

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Dispatches from the Mekong

Travel Weekly’s Michelle Baran traveled on the Cambodia-Vietnam itinerary for Ama Waterways’ new ship, the AmaLotus. Pictured here, the AmaLotus on the Mekong River. Photos by Michelle Baran. Posted: Nov. 10, 2011

Travel Weekly’s Michelle Baran traveled on the Cambodia-Vietnam itinerary for Ama Waterways’ new ship, the AmaLotus. Pictured here, the AmaLotus on the Mekong River. Photos by Michelle Baran. Posted: Nov. 10, 2011

A stateroom aboard the AmaLotus

Serving up Asian delights for lunch onboard the AmaLotus

Ama Waterways AmaLotus

Ama Waterways passengers ride motorboats across Tonle Sap Lake to board the AmaLotus for the inaugural downstream sailing

The Tonle Sap Lake floating village community in Cambodia

Children at the Ama Waterways-sponsored English-language school in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ama executives, from left: Jimmy Murphy, Ama co-founder; Susan Murphy, Ama board member; Kristin Karst, Ama co-founder; and Rudi Schreiner, Ama co-founder, with children and teachers at the school

Children at the Orphans & Disabled Art Association, or ODA, complex wave goodbye

Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex

Angkor Thom, an ancient temple at Angkor Wat

Holding cells at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, also known as the notorious security prison 21 (S-21) and killing fields in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A sign informs visitors to refrain from smiling at S-21

Photos of some of the S-21 victims

Life along the Mekong in Vietnam

Rickshaws line up for Ama passengers in Tan Chau, Vietnam

Ama co-founders Kristin Karst and Rudi Schreiner show passengers how to ride their oxcarts

The rickshaw drivers take the group of more than 100 passengers straight through a street-side Vietnamese wedding