A team from the lake,
working together.
Locally owned and operated in Siem Reap since 2017. The widest reach of any operator on the lake: three provinces, six villages, a representative in each.
Nine years on the water.
The Tonle Sap Experience started in 2017 with one idea: the floating villages should be shown by the people who live in them, at the price the community sets, with nothing added on. Today we run daily small-group tours and private days to every major village on the lake, and we are the operator with the widest reach on Tonle Sap Lake: three provinces, six villages, a representative in each.
We are not a desk in town that sends you off with a driver. We are a team: guides, drivers and boat crews from the villages themselves, working together so that the person who meets you at your hotel and the person who steers the boat are on the same side.
Representatives in every village.
We have people on the ground in all four Siem Reap floating villages and in the two big villages on the far side of the lake. That is how we know which channel the boats are using this week, when the canoes stop running, and who to call when a guest leaves a phone on the boat.
- Kompong PhlukStilt village and the most accessible flooded forest, 31 km from Siem Reap
- Kompong KhleangThe largest village on the lake, 50 km out
- MechreySmall floating village south-west of Siem Reap, with a floating school and church
- Chong KneasThe port village, 15 minutes from town
- Prek ToalThe bird sanctuary and floating village, Battambang side of the lake
- Kompong LuongFloating town on the south of the lake, Pursat province
Community boats,
community price.
Every boat ticket is bought from the village cooperative and goes to the boat crews and the commune. Our stops are with village families and small businesses, and what you spend there stays with them.
Our guides are trained in child protection. We ask guests not to give money or sweets to children, not to photograph children close up, and to ask before photographing anyone at home. The villages are places people live.
More in our questions and answers
Come and see the lake
with us.
Daily sunset tours from $28. Private days $145 for up to four, everything included. WhatsApp +855 97 691 9784, or [email protected]. Office at #14 Wat Enkosai, Siem Reap.