Kompong Phluk The Natural Lake Resort

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      About 30 kilometers from Siem Reap City, Kompong Phluk is a natural lake resort in Tonle Sap Lake. There is a few activities to do there like seeing the lake itself, see how people live, boat rowing in the lake forest, and walking through the lake forest. It's also the first place that I visited with foreigner. And now I'm about to tell  you my story.

This is a local people's houses built much higher than the land to ensure that their houses will be stay above the water level in the rainy season. Photo by me.

      I left Siem Reap City at 9:00am then i have to wait for my foreigner friends near Bakong temple. We continued our trip direct to Kompong Phluk. About 1 hours later we arrived the lake we took a boat to take us to middle of the lake. on the way to the main lake you can see local people's lifestyle, boats, house children etc. When you arrived your destination you can see how people find their food and their business. and the views of the lake.

     Most of people there feed their life with fishing, boat renting and made salty dried fish for selling at the market. They rather choose a boat than a car. 
      After we seeing the great lake that can provide fish for half of the country population, we were going to having a lunch at the restaurant. Beside providing food and beverage, this restaurant also provide boat rowing service. Unfortunately, we went on the dry season so there is no water in the forest and make us unable to do that. Evening we can not do the boat rowing, we can walk along the wooden walkway created by the restaurant after the lunch. Big trees, fresh air, bird singing and the big shade from the trees, we not really want to come back to the town .

This is the Wooden walkway that allows us to see the forest take photos and enjoy our trip.

       This forest will filled with water at the rainy season by half height of the tree make you able to row a boat along trees.

       I really really want to visit Kompong Phluk again because I missed the boat rowing. I saw my friend's photos aout boat rowing and it look really interesting. Now I'm planning to visit again soon...Bye!!




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