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Kratie Town is a peaceful and quiet city opposite to the riverfront of Koh Trong island. There are plenty of things to do in the city like visit the local market, taste local restaurants, discover magnificent pagodas, admire the sunset on the riverbank, and so on!

Koh Phdao is the largest island in the Mekong River. It is home to many of CRDTours projects and provides you the opportunity to meet the local community, learn about their lives and how your visit supports their development. Sweeping landscapes, natural delights, local Khmer cuisine and long standing traditions – the island of Koh Phdao is perfect for immersing visitors in rural village life.

You are given this rare opportunity to learn about the Conservation International project working towards the long-term sustainable conservation of one of the world’s rarest and largest fresh water turtles – the Cantor’s Softshell Turtle. The largest known wild population survives in the Mekong River and is critically endangered throughout Laos, Thailand and Vietnam!

Vihear Sarsar Mouy Rouy meaning “Temple with 100 columns pagoda” is located in Sambor district, 36 km from Kratie provincial town. This pagoda is well-known for its history and as a place of pilgrimage. The temple was built in the 16th century by the king Chann Reachea. The pagoda included 100 wooden columns to commemorate the memory of his daughter name is Vorakpheak. Situated in the Sambour district, opposite to Koh Phdao, the 100-pillar pagoda is an iconic representation of the ruling of the Sambor Prei Kuk and Chenla empires. The temple is used as a place of pilgrimage for local residence of the Kratie province

Sambok Mountain is a tranquil destination if you are interested in a leisurely hike to an iconic pagoda, on your way from Kratie Town to Kampi or Sambour. The mountain has good location and assured safety for the tourists to visit. On the mountain, we can view the beautiful scene, especially the Mekong River. A long set of steps lead to the iconic pavilion, where the interior is covered with intricate paintings representing warnings from Buddha of what happens to those that don’t lead a holy and clean lifestyle. The pavilion is also a quiet place for reflection and meditation.

The unique Irrawaddy river dolphin can only be seen in rural areas of South-East Asia and is currently listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Irrawaddy Dolphins are rare mammals living in fresh water of Mekong River in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces and are about fifteen to twenty living in Kampi rapids. Dolphins are normally between 2m to 2.75m in length and 130 to 150 kg in weight. They can live from 26 to 30 year and eat fish. They can swim about 42 km an hour and hold their breath for 10-15minutes.

Thma Krae village is situated along the Mekong River around 6km before Kampi Dolphin Pool and 7km north from Kratie Town. Famous for its local culinary dishes, the Kralan and Naem, this small village is also called Sticky Rice village. The Kralan is roasted sticky rice in the bamboo and Naem is a fermented raw fish, they are the symbol of this village and a unique cultural product. The production of Kralan and Naem is one of the major economic activity of the village just after rice growing, it is an important part of the local way of life transmit from generation to generation.

Cambodian cook every day and almost every meal too. They eat 3 meals with a light meal in the morning and heavy meals for lunch and dinner. You will find around the houses gardens composed of aromatic plants, vegetables and fruit trees that are used in the preparation of daily meals. Rice is in every meal and is accompanied by meat and vegetables. Therefore, basic local food refers to the dishes which were cooked by local people. Normally, it is always rice with fried local vegetable with pork/chicken/fishes and sometime fried egg and soup. Local soup basically has a lot of water.

Due to the amount of population from Vietnamese origin living in the Kratie province, you can find on the southwest of Koh Trong a Vietnamese temple but also a Vietnamese floating village. This village has been there for generations, it consists of wooden and bamboo houses that you can reach by boat or with wooden gangways. The village moves during the year with the change of seasons, stuck to the banks of the island in the rainy season it slips toward the middle of the river in the dry season.

About 1 kilometer north of Kampi Dolphin Pool, you can find Kampi Rapids. This is a good place to go if you want to relax, swim and enjoy the beauty of the rapids. There is a series of platforms in bamboo with straw roof built out over the rapids It is a good picnic spot which is very popular with the local families who came with large supplies of fruit, vegetables, fish, rice, cooking utensils and beer to enjoy their free time. You can also find hammocks if you want to have a lazy afternoon.

Koh Chhraeng also call “corn village” is a village on an island situated 12km south of Kratie Town. In this village, people economic activity relies on growing corn when the river water got low after the rice growing. Rice in this region being grow only one time a year which is in raining season between June to October. The village is made of local wooden traditional houses built high to escape the waters of the river during the Mekong floods and surrounded by fruit trees, vegetable garden and local herb for cooking. You can also find livestock such as chicken, pig and cow. There is a lot of shops along the road which are selling the daily consumption materials for villagers. Koh Chhraeng is also a good spot to see the flying fox, the village having a conservation project concerning them.

The Kratie province offers many homestay options in small local villages such as Koh Phdao or Koh Trong. This is an easy and unique way to interact with the locals and learn more about their way of life. You will stay with one of the families of the village, in one of the traditional Cambodian wooden houses. These are raised to avoid flooding during the rainy season and has a large interior space. You will sleep in their guest floor with the sleeping materials provided by the host family (mattresses, mosquito nets, ...). It is one room sometimes two normally used for news weds or parents. In the homestay, you will experience the local life with its sounds of the children who play and of the work in campaign, its smells of the kitchen and of the farm and the moments of sharing with the local people.

Kampi Pool is one of the last places where Irrawaddy dolphins can be seen in their natural habitats. It is the largest and most populated dolphin pool along the Mekong River in the area between Kratie and the Laos border. The Irrawaddy's dolphin is considered an endangered species, with only 80 to 100 individuals currently living in the Mekong, 15 to 20 of them in the Kampi pool. For this reason, a major project is being carried out in the Kampi pool and the 8 other existing pools by several NGOs and the Government to protect the dolphins from local fishing activities especially gill nets but also from the pollution of the river, the low amount of food source in the Mekong and potential threat of dam construction for electricity. At Kampi the project turned the local fishmen to be boat men who drive tourist to explore the dolphin as an alternative for them. There are several projects up stream too run by Cambodian Rural Development Organization. They are working on providing alternative livelihood for local to reduce the fishing pressure and conduct dolphin awareness. For example, community-based ecotourism at Koh Phdao and Domrae village.

Koh Trong is a beautiful and quiet island situated just in front of Kratie Town, accessible through a short boat ride with the ticket being at 1000 riels per person, plus 500 riels if you bring a bicycle. You will not find any cars there but only carts drawn by oxen or horses and thanks to the cycling track that goes around the island you can enjoy all the treasures of Koh Trong in the most beautiful way. This island offers a lot of possibilities, you can discover the traditional Cambodian houses and farms with their rice fields and their green grapefruit trees or meet smiley families of peasants and fishermen with theirs elders chatting on the front door and the children playing outside and learn more about their way of life or visit the old stupa and the small floating village that you can find there. Surrounded by sandy beaches, the island will also offer you the opportunity to relax and swim in the waters of the Mekong River. These beaches are one of the last natural habitats of the rare Mekong mud turtles.