Siem Reap Tonle Sap Lake Floating Village Tour -Kampong Plouk

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Kampong Phluk Floating Village

The floating villages at Tonle Sap Lake are becoming some thing of an curiosity for visitors going to Siem Reap. The fascination with folks who reside in floating houses, travel to floating schools and try to eat at floating restaurants is quite an appeal for the many visitors that come to Cambodia. As well as the floating villages, additionally, there are stilted villages along the banks of Tonle Sap Lake, where houses and buildings rest on high, thin stilts that keep the occupants dry during the wet season, with large ladders to reach the lower levels during the dry season. Kampong Phluk, which literally means “harbour of the tusks”, is actually 3 villages, with mainly stilted houses, that line the main entrance to the Tonle Sap Lake from this area. The community sustain themselves mainly on catching fish and shrimp, but also harvest some land crops during the dry season. There are some activity for Tourist to visit this village such as walking through village or take small boat ride to the jungle of Mangrove Tree.