Oxcart Ride & Mechrey Floating Village on Tonle Sap Lake

Your driver and guide will pick you up at 7:30am or any requested time then will drive to the countryside and start with an authentic oxcart ride to visit the beauty of the surrounding landscape, along the way discovering rice-paddy field, seasonal farming methods, other daily activities of local people and resident houses of Khmer typically built on stilts. The cart is custom designed for your comfort with mat.

Oxcarts were designed in different styles and not only just for farmers, but for all level of the people back then including royal families.

This tour is more relax and educated through culture and traditional ways of life, especially for kids they will love it.

After a joyous moment of oxcart ride step into the traditional wooden boat for approximately 1.5 hour to see one of the floating villages, located on the shore of Tonle Sap Lake, Mechrey, one of the charming attractions where you will experience how the local folks lead their every-day lives basically on water.

Primarily, these people majority income is fishing. Along the canal houses, schools are designed on water and relocated due to the dramatically changes of the water level between rainy and dry season, flooded forest and also birds flying overhead.

Moreover, you might also step into one the floating houses to see reality of their daily routines or buy a local made to support the community.

Return to Siem Reap and drop off at your hotel or requested drop off point drop-off Siem Reap city center.