Floating Fish & Crocodile Farm with a Restaurant in Chong Khneas, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Chong Khneas - Floating Village , Siem Reap, Cambodia

Floating Fish & Crocodile Farm with Tonle Sap Restaurant




Map of Cambodia with the Tonle Sap Lake in blue.



It is a floating restaurant - Tonle Sap Restaurant



All the fishes - so many !



Crocodiles everywhere ? so scaring and unsightly ?



Fishing Method used the fishermen in the area



Another method of fishing !



The floating fish enclosure



Shop for local souvenir ? there are many to choose ?



More choices ! I think they are expensive ! only for the tourists?


The sign says for itself ? We did bought 2 bottles of drinking water !

Our boatmen took us to visit this Fish & Crocodile Farm with a small shop and the Tonle Sap Restaurant. There is an exhibition to show the various methods used by the fishermen in the area to catch the fishes.

There were so many tourists from all over the world visiting the floating village. There are spots in the three-storey building where you can take photos or view the area crowded by all sorts of boats and ferries.

Tonle Sap Lake villages on stilts

On the way to the Tonle Sap Lake, we can see so many villages on stilts on both sides of the road we travelled.

















Tonle Sap Lake is an important commercial resource, providing more than half of the fish consumed in Cambodia. In harmony with the specialized ecosystems, the human occupations at the edges of the lake is similarly distinctive - floating villages, towering stilted houses, huge fish traps, and an economy and way of life deeply intertwined with the lake, the fish, the wildlife and the cycles of rising and falling waters.

Chong Khneas - floating village in Tonle Sap Lake, Siem Reap

CHONG KHNEAS - Floating Village






















































Chong Khneas is the floating village at the edge of the lake closest and most accessible to Siem Reap. The boatman pointed out the differing Khmer and Vietnamese floating households and the floating markets, clinics, schools and other boatloads of tourists.

Chong Khneas, while interesting, is overtouristed and is not as picturesque and 'unspoiled' as floating villages further from Siep Reap.

Our trip stopped over the touristy floating fish and crocodile exhibition with a souvenoir and snack shop and the Gecko Environment Centre, which offers displays and information introducing the ecology and biodiversity of the lake area.