For those that can manage an early morning, and want to see a bit of real, authentic Cambodia, the fish market starts at 4 am, for the buyers who come to trade and buy fish from the locals. If you are interested, please come and visit.
Have a home-cooked, sociable breakfast with your homestay family, before saying goodbye and continuing your journey by tuk-tuk. The driving goal for today is 80km, passing beautiful countryside, rich, fertile forests and isolated communities.
Tuk-Tuk Through the Back Country
For those that can manage an early morning, and want to see a bit of real, authentic Cambodia, the fish market starts at 4 am, for the buyers who come to trade and buy fish from the locals. If you are interested, please come and visit.
Have a home-cooked, sociable breakfast with your homestay family, before saying goodbye and continuing your journey by tuk-tuk. The driving goal for today is 80km, passing beautiful countryside, rich, fertile forests and isolated communities.
Learn how the Buddhist faith works closely with the community when you visit a Buddhist temple in a village near the Tonle Sap, where there is a school for children who are educated by a Buddhist monk project.
Later, you will also have the chance to see how villagers smoke fish, as well as the other resourceful family businesses of the villagers that make their base on the banks of the Tonle Sap.
Your tuk-tuk driver will also demonstrate how to ride a tuk-tuk, so that you can feel like a true Cambodian! You’ll visit Spean Praptos, also known as Kampong Kdei Bridge, on the road from Angkor to Phnom Chisor
This used to be the longest cobbled stone-arch bridge in the world, with more than twenty narrow arches spanning 285 ft (87m). The bridge was built in the 12th century during the reign of King Jayavarman VII. It is one of the few Khmer Empire era bridges to have survived to the modern day.
After a delicious local lunch and a stop off deep in wildest Cambodia, continue your drive and enjoy some fun activities, which will be organized en route by your tuk-tuk driver.
You’ll be staying in truly remote Cambodia tonight, so please bear in mind that this will be your most basic night of accommodation, whilst still very comfortable.
The family you are staying with are enormously friendly and incredibly hospitable, and will ensure you have a personal experience like no other tourist.
Accommodation
Dinner and overnight at local homestay in Stoung, Kampong Thom
