Kompong Khleang Day Tour from Siem Reap

Summary

Meet your guide at your Siem Reap hotel and soak up the scenery on the drive to Kompong Khleang. Gaze out over the vast Tonle Sap Lake and enjoy a glimpse of everyday life in Cambodia as you pass rural villages, lively markets and colorfully painted fishing boats. Swap your minibus for a traditional flat-bottomed riverboat and set sail down the Khleang River. Admire the dramatic scenery as you paddle through the flooded forest, then glide past the stilted houses, floating shops and pagodas of Kompong Khleang. Stop by the local school in Kompong Khleang to deliver school supplies and take a peek at a typical floating school. Before you leave, you’ll have chance to meet some of the school kids and chat with the teachers. Finish your morning with lunch at a local restaurant and look out over the glittering lake as you tuck into delicious Khmer cuisine. With your appetite sated, return to Siem Reap, where your tour ends with drop-off at your hotel.

Tour info

Duration
6 hours 30 minutes
Group Size
Pricing (From)
Commentary
Meeting Point
Dropoff location

Why take this tour?

Visit the floating village and in deed the stilted homes of Kompong Khleang on this awesome trip out from Siem Reap. Our local guide will explain why the village is built on stilts in a flood plain, and appear like a forest of elevated homes during dry periods of the year. In the wet season, you can cruise by boat down the town's main streets, stop at a local school, there are many places of interest along the way and some of the stops may include the making of bricks and the kilns,and also planting of rice,or road side stop to taste the sticky rice,a real treat,taking a long tail traditional boat up the Kompong Khleang river we enter the floating villages,the forests and the great lake itself,handing out school supplies and meeting the local villages is another highlight,our local guide will certainly look after you and enjoy a traditional Khmer-style lunch at a small restaurant in the village. its a large fishing village but few tourist visit as its quite an adventure from siem reap

What’s included?

  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan

  • Bottled water

  • Lunch

  • Local guide

  • School supplies

  • Entry/Admission - Kompong Khleang

  • Gratuities

Things to know

Before you book

  • Duration: 6h 30m

  • Mobile tickets accepted

Covid Policy

  • Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
  • Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas

Cancellation Policy

    For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

Operated by:

Khmer Detours Day Tours

About operator:

There must be a better way? As Angkor Wat and temples complex has become a major tourist attraction, we decided long ago to create tours to suit small groups to avoid the rush hour of tourist and all the noise and flag waving that seemed to go hand in hand with the larger tour groups, with this in mind all our tours are focused on visiting sites that either other tour groups don’t know about or too difficult to do. Sure we cover the main temples also but we try and avoid the many crowds that tend to group together and select the temples at the best times to avoid the crowds and also maximizing the best photo opportunities, we have full time professional guides that are expert on not only the temple but share our ideas on our crowd avoidance policy. All our tours are capped at maximum number of people on the one tour, no large tour groups, personalised service and care without the rush or hassles, explore at you own pace. All tours include fully licensed and experienced guides, our guides are all full time employees that have helped design the tours you will be doing, all are the best in their field, most are from the very places you will visit, our Beng Mealea guide was born near the temple, our Kompong Phluk guide was born in the village, this way you can be assured of the best possible sites and at times to suit. All tours include free pick up and return to your hotel, guesthouse or any place in Siem Reap. The pickup is in air conditioned minivan. All tours unless otherwise stated include all check points/road fees/control points meals and drinks. Our idea is no hidden costs. All our staff are local people, most were born in the village you will visit, they are all full time employees. We are a responsible local company that takes pride in delivering sustainable low impact, environmental friendly tours. See our environment policy for more info we hope you enjoy your tours with us, we realise for a company to be successful we must ensure every customer has a unique and special experience with us, we try to keep our prices down to ensure we are competitive but at the same time we do not want you to experience any hidden costs we are upfront on our prices.so unless otherwise stated in BOLD PRINT our prices will include everything. If 1 person books a tour it’s the same price. All prices are displayed with the tours, all in USD and are quoted per person. One person, we go no minimum number we find that some 30% of our customers are single travelers and we accept booking for one person, you can book via our web site or phone or visit our office or ask your travel agent or hotel, we have selected hotels and travel agents able to sell tickets for our tours.

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