Siem Reap to Battambang tour

Cambodia Boat Trip  . What follows is a brief account and selection of photos of a recent Cambodia Boat Trip from Siem Reap to Battambang. I think we first ran this Cambodia boat trip way back in 2000. It was a very different country in those days and the journey across the Tonle Sap and up the Sangkar River to…

The Sangkar River The mouth of western Cambodia’s Sangkar River lies concealed amid a maze of water-hyacinth-clogged waterways, endless reed marshes and clouds of egrets in the far northwestern corner of the vast but shallow Tonle Sap Lake. Anyone with a window seat between Bangkok and Siem Reap may have peered down on these extensive wetlands and unique ecosystems where…

A new addition to our Cambodia itinerary, this half-day tour to discover some of the local cottage industries in one of the villages outside of Battambang has proved very popular.  Also very practical since it can just as easily be done by bicycle or by tuk-tuk for the less energetic and the 3 or 4 hour round tour then leaves…

The famous floating villages and fishing communities around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake are well known, with the more easily accessible ones such as Chong Kneas and Kampong Phleuk now firmly on tourist itineraries. Far less known are these River nomads of Western Cambodia – people who spend the whole year travelling up and down the rivers leading into the huge…

Boat journey through Cambodia Our boat journey through Cambodia from Siem Reap, across the Tonle Sap Lake and down the Sangkar River to Western Cambodia’s Battambang Town, was a particularly tricky one this month due to the combination of low water levels on the lake and a slow current on the river itself which had lead to a serious build-up…