Tonle Sap stilt villages (Kampong Phluk & Kampong Khleang)

ភូមិកំពង់ភ្លុក (Kampong Phluk)

Houses on ten-metre stilts, seen by boat

⚠ Agree boat fare first

Hours

No fixed hours; tours usually leave around 1–2pm for sunset

Tickets

Village boat about US$20 per person plus US$2 community fee (operator guide, Sep 2026); not part of the Angkor Pass

Address

Prasat Bakong district, about an hour from town by tuk-tuk or car; Kampong Khleang is farther, around 3 hours' round trip

Come in the dry season and the scale is startling: houses perch on skinny wooden stilts several storeys high, with kids running and nets drying underneath. By the end of the rains the water has climbed nearly to the doorsteps and boats pull up at the front door, so the same village looks completely different by season. The boat runs through the village channel, then you switch to a paddle canoe through flooded mangrove, and finish out on the lake itself, wide as a sea, for sunset. Chong Kneas, the closest village to town, has a reputation for donation pressure and overcharging, so most reviews point you to Kampong Phluk or the larger Kampong Khleang instead.