Tonle Sap Lake and Floating Village Tuk Tuk Tour

Explore the Chong Kneas floating village of Siem Reap on a half-day tour. Travel through the countryside to Tonle Sap Lake, classified as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1997. Take a boat trip around the lake to see floating villages and get a taste for life ruled by monsoonal rains and water-based agriculture.

Leave Siem Reap and travel through the countryside to Tonle Sap Lake. The lake is one of the world’s most productive bodies of fresh water. During the dry half of the year, the lake shrinks to as small as 2,500 km², draining into the Tonle Sap River. In the wet season, the lake swells to 12,000 km².

Each year, millions of fish come to spawn in the seasonally flooded forest surrounding the lake, attracting a myriad of water birds as well as people, who have settled in villages along the shores and who live with the rhythm of the water. Take a boat trip around the lake to see floating villages and get a taste for life ruled by monsoonal rains and water-based agriculture.

Take the back roads back to town on this half-day tour in Siem Reap and witness seasonal agricultural activities like cricket catching, rice planting and harvesting, smoking fish, prohoc making (fish paste). Then stop at a local village to pick up Khmer snacks and explore how local community sell their products. Before returning to town, visit a Buddhist monastery.

• Transport by a tuk tuk
• Local English-speaking tour guide
• Entrance fees and sightseeing tours by boat
• Khmer snacks.

• Siem Reap – Floating Village
• Siem Reap – Buddhist monastery
• Siem Reap – Local Market.