Kampong Phluk Floating village in Kampong Chhnang

The floating villages here are a must see for all tourists. This was the highlight of my visit to Cambodia. I did a tour on a hovercraft with 5 other people on a small boat. It simply glided along the water. We saw a school on the water, shops, petrol stations, and lots of houses. The interesting thing is the houses are not fixed to the one location. They are tied, there. Sometimes they chose to float to new locations. It is simply amazing for a westerner to see. Highly recommended

Interesting to see how these people adapt to their rapidling changing circumstances. Despite the difficult living conditions they seem happy and delighted to have a constant stream of visitors.

Fun experience.The only downside is that I quite forced to buy the school supplies which Im sure will just be returned back for reselling once you hand it to the teacher at the school. The "thank you" chant from the kids was oddly terrifying.

Not really sure why we did the tour, the school and the town felt like a tour scam but the sunset was really amazing

An unique experience.. you can see and learn about the life of people living in the floating village. They have schools, hospital, market, police station.

You pay $30 for the boat up to 8 ppl. Keep this in mind if you book a private tour or go there with a TukTuk, usually its not included in the price except for small groups tours. The people in the village are really friendly, youll see a lot of the locals live if you spend some time there.

I was there on the dry season, so no water on the village. But it was total another experience to see. Interesting place, you can explore the whole village and have a walk along.

Our guests love this tour of the flooded forests and stilted villages,its important to go via a air conditioned car as road can get very dusty and is bumpy, we recommend the tara boat as the best operator,as they have best boats, also khmerdetours has very nice local guides , must see as fishing village is visited by few people

Very different experience from visiting the many temples around Siem Reap. You get to see a completely different way of living here than what most are use to.Be sure to book a private boat ride through the village instead of one of the larger tourist boats.Flooded ForestYou can also take a canoe ride through the stunning Flooded Forest, which is quite an experience. I’m not sure if there’s multiple ways to do this, but I had to take a boat from the village to a small floating island in the lake and then take the much smaller canoe from the island to get to the Flooded Forest. Highly recommend visiting both the village and forest.

I saw Kampong Phluk during a time of few tourists and a low river level. It was stunning, more like an extensive movie set than a village. I loved the almost-surreal feel of the houses, so different from the traditional scenic beauty. I would love to spend more time here and, one day, make a film.

Amazing place to visit once you feel stress. Really recommended for those pple who prefer such a nature place. Also you will enjoy the view of Sunset at our Great Lake. Though, the boat price from village to Kompong Pluk is little bit expensive.

Experience how locals able to live and adapt in wet and dry seasons. In wet seasons water flooded nearly to the bottom of the highly slited houses

We booked an afternoon Floating Village tour with Siem Reap Shuttles for just $18pp. We visited the village with our tour guide, learnt about its history, took a boat ride through the Flooded Forest and watching the sunset. There was however one part that felt like a scam in Flooded Forest which was a shame.

Amazing place. Very different from what Ive seen so far. I was very satisfied with how real and remote it was. We visited in dry season when there were very few tourists.

Interesting place. Worth the visit even though it was low tide. US$44 for 2 adults and 2 kids (freeseemed reasonable to me. Some visitors commented that it’s a scam, but it is not. Everyone needs to make a living. Lunch was reasonably priced. The boat ride was quite an experience given the low tide.

It was a great boat ride. Just be careful of the scams. We went there in the morning and our Cambodian companion said it is mostly reccommemded to visit it in the afternoon so that you can view the sunset on the lake.

This is my first time visiting this village, nine years ago I visited Tonle Sap but in a different village during the rainy season. There is a different sensation when I visit Kampong Phluk, especially during the dry season. The boat will go down the river between the very high stilt houses, its so amazing. And after that we can walk on the streets of the village that when the rainy season the road is submerged in water.

Though the village is a place of tourist attraction, but reality is quite different. People live in quite an extreme condition over there, with limited water and electricity supply and local school.But as such, its quite a beautiful place to visit, mangrove forests and a beautiful sunset. If you can spend some more money, you can take a boat ride, through the mangrove forest, watch the beautiful Sunset over the horizon and get back to be picked up from the original troop

If you would like to see a different side of Cambodia away from the temples. Visit this village. It is very basic and simple and you can get a view of Cambodia that not all tourists choose to see. We took a boat ride around the village. I loved the boats and seeing how people live around and in the water will give you an appreciation of the simple things in life.

Its good to see how people live there. If you are in Siem reap you can see those place, but its not so cheap. 20$ for bout per person, 2$ per person for entrance and support people living there.

It was interesting to see how villagers are doing their living on small local tour guides and fishing and living in a very limited access to clean water, schools, health centers and foods hygiene. The question is that, would they like to move out to live in a different place if they have better alternative options?

A unique way of life on the river that rises during the rainy season and dries up in the dry season. Very interesting and informative trip. Quite a bit of garbage laying around, but if you can overlook this it is worth visiting.

RIP OFF!! 30usd per person to take the boat ride.. then send u to another small jetty n ask u to take another small boat which another 5usd. We told the fella that we will skip that n he gave us a look n said something in their language. Well, at the ticket counter they said 30usd is to bring u to see village but end up send u to the lake n off engine.. not sure y is it so.. then head back to tuktuk. Thats it for 60usd!

It was a wonderful experience and one of the best things we did in siem reap. It was off season so no water on road. We got a chance to check out the schools and kids over there and a guy who teaches free English classes after their class. The life over there is so challenging and they dont care.A kid invited us to her house and I was speechless after checking inside. Dont miss it when you are still siem reap.

The place is worth for visit! But not the boat trip during dry season. Strongly advice not to take the 20usd boat trip if you are visiting during dry season, it’s just a 20 mins trip go and forth to/from one stop station on the lake. 20 usd is too much...

You wont experience this if you come on a dry season. Beside hot weather, you can have a glimpse on Kampung Phluk daily live. Enjoy the scenery, kids playing on the boat or at the stairs, people cooking in front of their house, and the flooded forest itself. Most of the boat driver are ladies. If you have extra money, you can help them by buying books or stationary to distribute to children. They are selling it on the boat beside snacks. Snacks are abit expensive. I called it tourist price.

Not so floating village during dry season lol, not much of an activity except walking and admire the high structure, a bit like a ghost town if you ask me, nothing specular unfortunately.I was told that the entrance ticket is very expensive, scam worthy some would say, $21-30. Fortunately my tour includes the ticket and transportation.The boat ride out to the lake is very unpleasant due to low tide, drench in mud from the propeller hitting the shallow muddy water.

Somewhat expensive to get here. Cheaper to pay for tour since they get a insider discount by just buying one ticket for the group of people they bring.Went during dry season so houses were seen with ground, but very dusty and not able to breath well.Recommend going during wet/rainy season

The tour was fun, the children in there class at the village were so excited trying to talk English to us were just lovely and just appreciative of the pens and books we bought for them. The floating village you just got to go see I loved it and on the way back a little excitement we got bogged stuck in the lake our skipper managed to get us back with a few laughs.

Where do you draw the line on the exploitation or touristy site? I was amazed by the beauty of this location but a bit uncomfortable seeing the entrance price is high yet no upgrading whatsoever has been done to this village. However, this is purely my observation and assumption. A beautiful village indeed.

As other low star reviews state, this is tourist trap. Like others, it was suggested by our driver. The “floating village” is a scam to pay to look at the way the poorest people in the country live, in the dry season, it’s down right terrible. $20 a person to sit on a muddy river boat to get dropped at other places to charge $20 more per person to paddle around a little boat, then they try and sell you food...note there is no clean running water in the area, get it?(it smells how you’d imagine, and water from the other boats passing splashes onto you, keep your mouth closed!If your driver suggested it, he gets a take and you should be aware of his intentions, our driver was very nice, but after this he made other suggestions to go to a local wedding party, he said it would be $50-80usd to drink with locals. we decided he did not have our best interest in mind and parted ways. This country seemed to be all about milking/extorting money from tourist, which I understood(helping out a poorer country with tourist dollars), but they are charging the same prices as legit tours in other countries for an unguided/explained ride to other places along to river to get pressured to pay even more. No signs that our money is helping any of these poor people, it was shameful. For reference 7 of us paid $140usd for a 45 minute ride out and back down a muddy river without a tour guide explaining anything, just to look at poor people. that’s with declining to get off the boat at the $20 more per person small boat ride scam (which they were not pleased with). The same 7 of us paid the same amount in Krabi Thailand for an 7hour private boat ride tour of beautiful islands off the coast of Krabi, with amazing lagoons and snorkeling. If you’ve read this far and still go, I don’t know what will help you.

Nice ecotourism. Good for those who want to experience the floating village and the lives on the water. Recommend to use small boat service to explore further. The small boat service contributes to local economic of women and elders there.

If youre voyeuristic and love poverty, this is for you. Ive traveled all over the world, and this is one of the most blatant forms of exploitative tourism Ive ever seen. This tour was recommended by our hotel and cab driver, so we opted in. Big mistake. For $20/person you get a ride through what is clearly an extremely poor village on the edge of survival. After a few stops at restaurants, a "crocodile farm" (its 10 crocs in a cage), and a few other places with strong attempts at selling you more stuff, you are shuttled back to your car. There is no attempt to educate you about the culture of the people living in the village, and you do not get to walk around the village as promised. There is no way to directly support the village other than buying stuff from the places you stop, which are clearly owned by the boat company. Upon further research I found that one large company owns all the boats and very little, if any money finds its way to the locals. Avoid at all costs. If you must go, take a taxi to the ticket counter, find a local fisherman, hand him your $20, then go back to Seam Reap. Thats what I wish I had done.

We used Siem Reap Shuttles to take us to this village and the lake by car. Our guide was great. The village is built on stilts in order to acommodate the monsoon. You can take a boatride along the river, going right through the village. We also walked through the village in area where there was no water.

My 3rd visit here and will come again , i just love the feel of this place. Laid back and relaxing. Try to spend some time here and take the "small boat" ride , very relaxing 😀

Had a good time riding the boat out to this floating village on the Tonle Sap lake. While there may be more scenic floating villages, it was still fun to get out on a boat and float on the lake for a bit. On the way to the village, our boat passed the flooded forest and several small riverside villages, offering good photo opportunities. We stopped to rest at a floating crocodile farm, which was an interesting experience.

The view is ok and take boat only in the raining season. Water is high and enjoy the view surrounding. USD15 per person is pricey and just sit in the boat 2 hours for enjoy the view. U need to tip the boat driver too.

Was in Cambodia for a few weeks when I got a chance to explore the entire village floating on water. You can stop at souvenir shops here, see captive crocodiles and get great views

Great place to visit and discover the real life of the local but the entrance price and boat ticket is super expensive and overcharge. They do not have a standard charge stated clearly at the ticket booth before entering Kampong Phluk.

I spent half day exploring the village and the eco tourism there. It was really nice. The village can reached land in the dried season, but by boat in the rainy season. It takes you about one hour to get there and spend about 2 hours to see the areas.The people living on the water in the rainy period. Most people make their living from fishing and tourism. There is a restaurant built on the forest allowing you to walk along the man-made wooden way to the lake. Recommend this for sunset in the rainy season.

There are plenty of reviews talking about the ugly side of tourism, overcharging, scamming, lying, etc. Yes I have to agree that it is all true about Kampong Phluk. It has been a problem for a long time and has just gotten worse over the years.As a photographer I try to ignore those all too human qualities and find a way to photograph the place, no matter what. My method is part patience and part stealth. When I see a large number of tourists arriving I know that I will be safe for a while (the touts and scammers will be busy for a whileand will slip away by myself to places I have scouted beforehand.The stilt-houses are beautiful so it is only a matter of camping out in front of one at a time and waiting for something interesting to happen. Never mind the kids, they are just showing off and want their picture taken. Just dont give them any money or you will soon have your own crowd.

Nice experince to see how this people can live, such a different lifestyle. Its really worth a visit here.Usually a trip here cost between 15-18 usd depends how you negociate with your driver and takes half a day.The trip includes also a small trip to the lake to see the sunset and a stay to an expensive restaurant.

This is the place that you could see the trees that its root is in the water.As my ideas, you can go in May to October because it is the rainy season in Cambodia, more flood, more beautiful green of nature, busy people with fishing season and addition the water really nice or you can swim. Instead of this, in the dry season, it was less to see the beautiful nature.Note: The good time to see the golden sun set and rise that reflect from Mekong River, you have to go the morning 7 or 8 am and Evening 4pm.

Great tour with Siemreapshuttle. Pick up at the hotel. Water. Tour by boat, visit of the village then the temple. Come back to our place.But now there is almost not enough water to see the beauty of the villages.Please be respectful about the hard life of people who work and live there. Use the less possible rubbish !

A nice little tour around the mangroves, the views are decent but it’s quite a ride down to the river. It took us 40 minutes to get here.

This is located about 40 mins away feom the town, and do not take a tuk tuk there. Yes, a tuk tuk is cheaper than a car, but there is a lot of dust and dirt and unpaved roads near the end.We had a boat all to ourselves. For the first 15 minutes, as the boat struggled through the traffic in the small channel, and while smelling diesel fumes and getting splashed a little with dirty river water, we almost regretted the visit. However, once you reach the main river, the village itself is rather pretty especially when you are at the Tonle Sap end. We decided to stay on the boat throughout though you can choose to visit the village on foot too or the ecofriendly outfit.The notable difference between this and other villages along the lake is that the houses are located on high stilts. Look out for the wat (monastery), as well as the Gendarme (police stationand church on stilts.

Kampong Phluk fishing village is one of the most beautiful fishing village of Tonle Sap lake. Its located about 25k east of Siem Reap city. The Village is full of stilt houses between 4-5 meters height, its accessable by car or tuk tuk during the dry season and by boat during the wet season.

Either you go with a tour (usually 18$ + 5$ of the optional small boator by yourself, I recommend exploring the floating village of Kompong Phluk to have an idea of how some of the population in Siem Reap lives. Really interesting.

Great experience to witness the poverty life. Really touch my heart. We brought color pencils, old children clothings, simple stationery sets to distribute for the children.

Interesting to sail right through the neighborhood of a floating village. However I cannot imagine the disruption to the daily life of villagers as some of the tourist boats are so noisy. Just do the trip straight out to Tonle Sap for sunset, you can try the lunch if you are feeling adventurous.