Silk Island
Description
Silk Island is one of the islands where have a location at Kandal Province. Silk Island has involves 5 villages, known as Koh Dach, Kbal Koh, Lvea, Chong Koh, Neah village, Cham Ka Snea resort. Silk Island is also a famous place for a day trip for local tourists and foreign tourists, actually, the famous place traveler will visit at Silk Island are Koh Dach and Cham Ka Snea Resort. Silk island now are becoming a famous place for local tourist they are enjoyable to cycling along with silk island villages.
How to visit Slik Island?
So, After around 9 kilometers from Phnom Penh city traveling on National Road No. 6a so you will see the pier availing to Koh Dach and Koh Oknha Tei. So all of the travelers have to take a boat within a minute from Phnom Penh by availing boats with the ticket prices 1500 riel for each transportation.
Place to visit at Silk Island
Silk Island is a good place for exploring a day trip so there are a few places to visit such as :
Koch Dach is in an attractive place for relaxing place by a local tourist on the publishing holiday it is very refreshing by the natural air and good place for water swimming. Koh Dach is very the best for escape way from escape the humdrum of capital life while discovering rural Cambodia, Moreover, you can learn about skill history from the small village there some of them have a lengthy silk-weaving history that stretches back to pre-Angkorian times. While the art is dwindling, countrywide efforts are being made to rekindle the craft. Koh Dach is dotted with weaving communities.
The silk community is the important silk weaving center to make handicraft production such as Khmer Souvenir handmade, Kroma scarf, Cotton Khmer clothes. what you will get after you have yo visited Slik Island? Once you have to explore at the silk Island Community you will learn a lot about the processing flow of doing Kroma, Cotton Khmer clothes, and so on.
Cham Ka Snea resort
Cham Ka Snea Resort is a well-known place for the culture community and has some showing about ancient handmade, traditional houses, a relaxing setting, and also has a restaurant that providing Cambodian food.
Entrance to Chamka Snea resort all traveler have bought a ticket 1$ for each person but this price for foreign tourists and 0.5$ for local tourists.
However, Chamka Snea resort is on Koh Oknha Tei so very close to Koh Dach island just passed by a steel bridge a couple of minutes.
