Set up iPhone from iCloud backup

Advice needed please.
My current iPhone 5s on ios8.1 is backed up to iCloud and I will soon need to set up a second 5s but will be in a country with very slow internet and intermittent connection and no access to my iTunes.
What I would like to do is to activate the second phone over wifi but only set it up using the native Apple apps and my contacts from my iCloud backup so as to save time in downloading.
Is it possible when choosing to set the phone up using an existing iCloud backup to select what apps / content is downloaded or  the only option to download the full backup? I have set up phones before using iCloud backups but cannot recall whether there was an option to be selective as to what was downloaded.

That is great, many thanks
It is only the unreliability as to to long it will be before the internet connection drops that I want to do it this way.
Again, my thanks.

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