Unforgettable Siem Reap: Private Prek Toal Bird & Village Tour

We wasted £275 to save your money! We were very disappointed with the tour today. The guide gives you a double-sided laminated sheet with all the birds in the park. However, between JUL - NOV there are very few birds. So if you are there for bird-watching, save you money. If, however, you are happy to spend this money for a couple of hours boat trip around the lake and floating villages then fine. I felt sad having to leave a poor review because our guide was so cheerful and enthusiastic, but even he was sad for us to see so few birds. We have travelled all over the world and understand with wildlife trips nothing is guaranteed, but to see only 2 eagles, a couple of bee eaters and a heron in over 3 hours is very poor to say the least!

Absolutely outstanding experience. Our guide Leap was amazing providing detailed experience regarding species of birds. Our driver Pheap was outstanding and punctual picking us up at our hotel. We went deep into the bird sanctuary. The entire process was smooth and seeing the floating villages was also very interesting. I would recommend this trip to any birding enthusiasts as it was fantastic. Would try to do this again in the future.

Absolutely amazing! My favorite part of my trip to Cambodia. We saw a ton of amazing birds and our guide Leap was extremely helpful. Both of our boat trips both on the lake and in the preserve were really fun and the drivers were fantastic. We also got to see a number of the floating villages which was great. Overall can't recommend high enough!!!

My guide is Rum, His english is not bad but I guess with their local accent, we may need them to repeat themselves occasionally. Saw quite a number of birds in the santuary so it was a worth while trip. The engine from the boat can be quite loud but you will get used to it. If not, please bring along your noise cancellation ear buds. The tour is a bit pricey though but I hope the funds do help the villagers.

Prek Toal Birds Sanctuary is a great habitat to observe stunning large water birds from Painted-billed Pelican, Painted Stork, Asian Open-billed to Oriental Darter. Observation tower after a 30 to 45mins-electric sampan boat ride allows one to check out Painted Stork nests from the monocular telescope prepared by the SVC guide, Savobin, a super friendly and passionate young gentleman born in the same Province, Battambang. Read through the bird list provided before departure to get the best experience. Enjoy!

Our tour with Prek Toal was excellent. We went a few days before Christmas and there was just enough water to be able to travel through small waterways instead of on the lake. Apparently the birding will be better in a month but the small waterways will be dry. Communication with Hoksan was easy and our tour guide, Sophal, was excellent. He was great at spotting and identifying the birds, and he also gave a lot of information about the floating village. On other tours I felt we were only seeing what was set up for tourists, but this trip felt genuine. The home where we had lunch was the same as the other homes. The town has had successes and failures and its all there to see. Hoksan is putting the money from these tours back into the community to improve housing and develop sustainable vocations for the residents. One thing to note- bring layers for the temperature on the boat in the morning.

Very informative and interesting day trip. Good bird viewing from tree platform and amazing scenes at Meachrey floating village. Rain was a great guide and he arranged the car and boat components perfectly. We would definitely recommend a trip with Rain.

Poor tour. 20 min stop At one bird hide. Guide had little knowledge of birds. Wanted to rush us off the water asap. Disappointed

I booked this tour because I really wanted to visit the bird sanctuary, which we did! Amazing boat ride to get there! Great views of storks, pelicans, herons and shags in the rookeries. Adventurous climb up a rickety ladder to the viewing platform! However, this tour turned out to be much more! Visiting the floating villages, watching women weave items out of water hyacinth stems, eating at a home in the village (best meal we had in Cambodia!), were experiences that we will never forget! Mr. Sara, our wonderful guide, spoke excellent English and shared so much of life in Cambodia. He was very attentive and very gracious. Our driver was extremely careful while driving and very polite and thoughtful. We highly recommend this tour!

Liep, our guide, was excellent. Love seeing the floating village and the cache where we watched the birds. The boat rides were very interesting and felt safe.