Top Siem Reap Bird Watching

Encounter Cambodia’s startling wildlife on a thrilling full-day cruise around Tonle Sap Lake from Siem Reap. Get a glimpse of local life on the water as you pass floating villages, markets and stilted houses, then enter the protected biosphere reserve of the Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary. Paddle around the flooded forests and swamps in a traditional flat bottomed boat, and look out for over 150 bird species, including Spot billed Pelican, Black headed Ibis, Grey-headed Fish Eagles and the rare Masked Finfoot. This small-group tour includes hotel pick-up and lunch.

On the morning after breakfast at your hotel our tour guide and driver will meet you at your hotel lobby and transfer you to pier to take the traditional wooden boat and drive through the Tonle Sap lake to Prek Toal floating village and visit Tonle Sap Biosphere and after that take next boat to visit largest birds sanctuary Prek Toal and explore Prek Toal floating village. During your sightseeing and enjoy picnic lunch at Prek Toal Birds Sanctuary in the jungle, Prek Toal is the most popular with birdwatchers. Your entrance expense use to help promote responsible tourism in Cambodia, and contributes to the conservation of the area especially educate children, villagers about the importance of the birds and the unique flooded forest environment, all your expenses go through to local communities 'bird sanctuary' at the Prek Toal core area of Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve has been called "the single most important breeding ground in Southeast Asia for globally threatened large water birds.

The Prek Toal Biosphere Reserve is one of the most important bird sanctuaries in Southeast Asia, but the only way to visit is by boat. Grab your camera and seek out rare birds like Spot-billed Pelican, Black-headed Ibis, and Masked Finfoot on this full-day cruise of Tonle Sap Lake from Siem Reap. That’s not all: visit the Chong Khneas crocodile farm, get a glimpse of local life as you cruise through floating villages, then tuck into a delicious Cambodian-style lunch (included) at a floating restaurant.

Wildlife and bird-watching enthusiasts will especially enjoy this day trip. You’ll be picked up early in the morning to get to the bird conservation site at the best time of day. Your ranger-guide will give you a thorough briefing about the birds you’re likely to see. After plenty of time bird-watching, you’ll travel by ox cart to a local village, where you’ll learn about rural livelihoods and ways of life. This is a fun and interesting tour for travelers who want to go beyond the typical tourist sites.

Oxcart Tour provide amazing opportunity to see glimpses of rural lifestyle, get to know more about Cambodian culture, customs and friendly locals. The traditional ox cart has been an important part featuring about Cambodian culture dating back to hundreds of years. Until the present, oxcart is still used to transport goods, stacks of thatches, sacks of rice from the one place to others. Apart from using oxcart to carry stuff, it brings an attractive adventure to tourists who wish to see charming Cambodia.

To explore one of most beautiful floating village in Siem Reap with the private tells you about real situations in Kompong Pluk. Cruise along channel to see the stilted houses,pagoda,church,mangrove trees and crocodiles trapped in the cage. climb up Buddhist temple to learn more stories and commute in the village to know how people live when water recede .glance through active lives on water in rainy season and dry season are so different.feel relax on second biggest fresh water in the world where over 800 kinds of fish live and it is special zone in the world for water blows . To sit in small boat in try new experience on speed boat but it moves slowly in narrow small canal in busy traffic when locals carry the box of fish from the deep water to market. sit on boat to take sunset photo until it sinks down to fresh ocean.

At 07:30AM, we will pick up you from the hotel and start tour. If you don't have driving license you also can drive a scooter with our assistance on the country road. If you have it it is more fun on the rice field due to it is sandy and muddy, and sometimes we need to walk through the muddy field to see the abandoned temples which were built in 9th century. Yes, it is lovely nature and temple is quite good shape. Local villagers and boys at the rice fields cheering you because there are not many tourists want to see the root of temples ( why temple built in Siem Reap). I will see around two temples.

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