Pursat Province : The "Kampong Luang Floating Village"
The "Kampong Luang Floating Village" community is located in Kampong Luang commune, Krakor district, Pursat province. It is a good tourist destination for tourists who can take a boat trip to see the floating village, the forest, traditional fishing, and watch the sunset over the beautiful Tonle Sap Lake. A tourist area that is popular with many foreign tourists during the rainy season. When you get there, you will see the lives of the people, who are mostly engaged in fishing, houses that grow like mushrooms floating on the water, and boats as a means of transportation. It is not a modern and bustling area like other tourist areas, but the floating village will make you know the taste of living like fishermen and people in the river area. The Ministry of Tourism has highlighted that: Kampong Luang is a beautiful tourist destination and a floating village that shows tourists the customs, traditions, and diverse religious beliefs of the people of the community there. Especially the basic occupation of seasonal fishermen, which has been a livelihood for generations since ancient times. Please also note that the landscape of the flooded forest or the flooded forest, many types of birds that come down to find food and fly, fishing boats, the water surface, the landscape of the floating village at night is like "a floating city". If you want to visit the Kampong Luang Floating Village Community, when traveling to Krakor Market, there is a four-way junction between National Roads 5 and 54 and Road 53B in Krakor District Town. You must travel on National Road 54 from Krakor District Town, a distance of 7 kilometers. Then, you must pass through Village 4, Kampong Luang Commune School and Kampong Luang Secondary School to reach the waterfront where there are small and large boats lined up waiting to transport tourists and other goods to support the livelihood of the residents of the floating village. The view in the village has 4 villages on the water and 1 village on land. The floating village has Villages 1, 2, 3 and 5. The village has all kinds of services, including: food and grocery stores, and all kinds of consumer goods, except for large machinery.