Southeast Asia's Largest Lake Half Day Tonle Sap Tour
- 3 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Sail Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake on a half day boat tour of Tonle Sap's floating villages, seeing homes, schools and markets adapted to life on the water. Tonle Sap, often compared to an inland sea for its sheer size, shrinks by more than half during the dry season, a seasonal shift that has shaped how millions of Cambodians live along its shores. Board a local boat for a sailing trip across the lake to a floating fishing village, passing photo-worthy scenery en route. From the water, see a floating restaurant, school and police station, along with grocery cultivation adapted to life afloat. Watch fishermen at work breeding fish in their tanks and using techniques passed down through generations to prepare their catch. The approximately 3 hour tour can run as a morning or afternoon excursion, returning you to Siem Reap either before lunch or at the end of the afternoon. A compact half day glimpse into one of Cambodia's most distinctive ways of life.
Inclusions
What's included
- All applicable taxes and service charges
- Transportation by local boat with a local captain
- A professional English-speaking guide.
- Transportation by car / mini-van / coach with professional driver from and to the embarkation point
- All entrance and donation fees for visits as mentioned in the description
What's not
- Personal expenses such as meals, drinks, tips and gratuities, shopping, portage fees .
- Transfers from and to hotels and resorts that are located outside of the city center are not included in the service and supplements will applied.
- Travel insurance coverage for customers (highly recommendable)
Itinerary
Your guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel in Siem Reap for a sailing adventure over the Tonle Sap Lake. The largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, it is the lifeblood of the Cambodian fishing industry. With some photo stops along the way from Siem Reap to the lake, it is also home of the floating fishing village, where the tourists take local fishing boats to see many common things floating around: from your floating restaurant, school, police station, to even floating grocery cultivation. The daily activity of the fishermen living in and on their boats, living day in and day out from fishing, also gives the opportunity to observe how they breed the fish in their fish tank and the techniques they use to prepare the fish. We return back from the lake to your hotel either just before lunch time or, when booked as an afternoon excursion, at the end of the afternoon. The tour itself will take approximately 3 hours.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Asian Trails LTD
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- This tour is operated on full private basis with English-speaking guide. Other languages are on request / subject to availability and supplementary charges may apply.
- Return transfers for this excursion apply only / are inclusive for customers staying in and inside Siem Reap. Transfers outside these areas, including any accommodation outside this area such as Tonle Sap, Koh Ker, Banteay Srei and Siem Reap International Airport are excluded. Supplements apply for customers who want to join this excursion outside one of these regions.
- To avoid any issues pertaining obtaining an arrival visa at the airport, please ensure that your passport contains at least two empty pages. Failure to do so may result in not gaining entrance into the Kingdom of Cambodia.
- We always will make efforts to confirm the exact pick-up time upon reservation. For any operational issues in which are not able to confirm the exact pick-up time in advance, we reserve the right to inform you the day before the departure of the tour.
- Natural elements of any kind have a destructive effect on electronic equipment. It the customer’s own responsibility to ensure that any camera, mobile telephone or other device is properly wrapped and protected against these elements. We cannot be held responsible in any way for negligence and/or not following suggestions for any damage related to this.
- During Cambodia’s dry season (running from March until end July), the lower water levels of the Tonle Sap River do not permit visits to the fishing and floating villages.
- The protection of the country’s flora and fauna is of immense importance for us. We will not pursue any activities for guests that are not in line with our animal, wildlife and environment protection principles.
How it compares in Siem Reap
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 2414 experiences we list in Siem Reap.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 1144 of 2414.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Siem Reap
Siem Reap is the riverside town beside Angkor, Cambodia's vast complex of Khmer temples, with night markets, river walks and a relaxed centre.
Angkor Wat, often called the largest religious monument in the world, rises above its moat in a silhouette of lotus-bud towers that is breathtaking at sunrise. Nearby, the walled city of Angkor Thom holds the Bayon, with its more than two hundred serene stone faces, the Terrace of the Elephants and the Baphuon, while Ta Prohm is gripped by the roots of giant silk-cotton and strangler fig trees.
Top-ranked sights in Siem Reap: Angkor Thom, Tonlé Sap, Kampong Phluk.
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