South-West Countryside & Mechrey

Tour highlights
• Take a break from the busy touristic part of Siem Reap
• Bike along red soil paths watching the local community
• See many ways of life in countryside and culture
• Picturesque scenery for photograph
• Learn how people doing trades at local market
• Tasting local pastry and cookies
• Refreshing and thirst quenching coconut water at hammock restaurant
• Board a boat to floating village
• Visit Watchork pagoda

Tour itinerary

Leaving Siem Reap downtown and cycle along the red soil roads through some splendid villages. There, you can absorb the real fresh air and some eye-catching views of thousands hectares rice field (May-October: field in green, November-January: field in golden color), big crowds of cow, buffalos, ducks, also many bird species flying above us making beautiful sounds. See the lifestyle of villagers and what they do for livings: farming cycle, vegetable grown, haycock and so on. Visit the local market and taste the Khmer typical cookies. See Buddhist temple with handmade painting on the wall and observe monks’ day-to-day routine. Continue to Mechrey (a part of Tonle Sap), a large surface of lowland where locals plant the dry season rice. Also seeing big crowds of birds picking food, water buffalos and cows. Take a boat tour (boat tour is optional) to see floating village: flooded forest, floating houses and school, crocodile and fish farm, fish paste making... Back to town, end of service.