Prek Toal Battambang
Description
Prek Toal is a protected eco-system regarded as the single most important breeding ground for globally threatened large waterbirds in South East Asia. Prek ToL Ecotourism Site was established in 1999 under support from an NGO called Osmose. Prek Toal is a floating village with a bird sanctuary. Visitors can go on guided trips by trained SVC (Sam Veasna Center) bird guides and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) rangers to watch birds and learn about them. In addition to that, paddle boat tours through the floating village are being offered to see crocodile and fish rising farms and many more interesting things.
How to Visiting Prek Toal in Battambang?
The site is an ornithologist's dream as every year from January to June, as the lake’s water level recedes, flocks of migratory storks, adjutants, pelicans, ibises, cormorants, and more come to nest in the surrounding flooded forest. Over 120 species of water and forest birds have been recorded, among which are 15 endangered species such as the greater adjutant and the masked finfoot.
What you will See and getting the new experience of visiting at Prek Toal Battambang? However, there is more to the experience than just bird watching, the floating village of Prek Toal has set up a community tourism project. Here you can learn about the lives of the people who lead an entirely aquatic existence. Several hundred families live on the water in houseboats or houses built on bamboo rafts. Homes are served by floating shops, floating barbers, floating petrol stations, in fact, all the amenities of any village on land, yet floating. The only buildings on stilts (more than 10m high) are the pagoda, the spirit house, and the school. In the past, a threat to the area was large scale egg and chick collection by villages, however, since the introduction of the community tourism project and the localization that economically the birds are worth more alive this has stopped and 7 bird species have been saved from extinction.
