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Battambang Full Day Bike Tour: Exploring Local Livelihood and Cambodian Traditions
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29 Ratings
Battambang
Immerse yourself in the local livelihood and Cambodian traditions on a full-day bike tour in Battambang. Explore the countryside, visit traditional product producers, learn about rural life, enjoy a delicious lunch, visit a Buddhist temple, and discover French colonial architecture. Book now!
Duration:
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- After a complimentary hotel pick-up at 7 or 7:30 AM, you can either enjoy a welcome drink at Kinyei Cafe or start your journey immediately. Begin with a brief bike safety lesson and some basic Khmer language tips before heading out.
- Meet families who produce traditional items like rice paper, dried banana, bamboo sticky rice, fish paste, and rice wine.
- Take a refreshing snack break in a traditional house, enjoying fresh fruit and coconuts.
- Learn about daily life in rural communities.
- Enjoy a picturesque ride through the rice fields.
- Visit a memorial site dedicated to the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
- Savor a lunch prepared by a local family in a traditional Khmer house.
- Discover Buddhism and monkhood at a local temple.
- Explore French colonial sites for a deeper understanding of Cambodian history.
- Experience a ride on Battambang’s famous Bamboo train.
- Afternoon stops are flexible and depend on time.
- Return to the Soksabike office through the countryside.
- Support these communities by touring with Soksabike, as a portion of our revenue is given back to each family you visit.
- Our guides are local university students with excellent language skills, offering personal insights and helping you communicate with the families you visit. They receive vocational training and support.
Inclusions:
- One complimentary drink at Kinyei Cafe.
- Mountain bike with safety helmet.
- Snacks and tastings at various stops.
- Water
Points of Interest
- Soksabike
What's Included
- Mountain Bike and Safety Helmet
- Local guide
- Bottled water
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Hotel pickup
- One drink at Kinyei Cafe
What's Not Included
- Hotel Drop Off
- Insurance
Additional Information
Our excursion provides an opportunity for you to traverse the scenic rural expanses of Battambang by bicycle, engaging directly with Cambodian families whose expertise lies in crafting age-old traditional products like rice paper, sun-dried bananas, sticky rice in bamboo, and rice wine. Encounter the day-to-day existence of village life, intrinsic to more than 70% of Cambodia’s populace. Further into your journey, you will:
- Savor an authentic Cambodian meal at a resident’s dwelling.
- Explore a Buddhist Temple, gaining insights into Buddhist doctrines and customs.
- Discover sites of French colonial heritage and their storied pasts.
- Experience the Bamboo Train, subject to your interest and time constraints in the afternoon.
A share of your tour cost directly benefits the local populace, while your guide, a local scholar, receives practical training via Soksabike.
- You will be picked up from your hotel at 7:20am.
- Please advise guest heights and dietary restrictions at time of booking. Please dress to have knees and shoulders covered out of respect for local culture.
Location
Soksabike
Street 1 1/2, near Psar Nath
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(29 Ratings)
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Y3129mbbelindad
Aug 20, 2024
A must do! - A fabulous experience and real treat! Sopheak Pich Sr and Jr made it a really great trip carefully taking into account our limits (we were not the most sportive bunch) and answered all our questions with a big smile. Sopheak Pich Jr we hope your classes are going well. :)
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Pioneer03454468450
Aug 16, 2024
Battenbang Cycle Tour - This was a fantastic day spent in the company of our guide Savith. He had a lot of local knowledge to share with us. We thank the people who allowed us into their homes to share their skills and traditions. We also appreciated tje language that Savith taught us! This tour has been the highlight of our trip to Battenbang. Thank you to the team and especially Savith.
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G89f
Aug 9, 2024
Super! - We left at 7:30am from our hotel and returned at 3:30pm. Great bikes, beautiful views among the rice fields and engaging experience at local families. Our Savith Guide was very kind, explained many things about the local culture and was very helpful in answering all our questions. Highly recommended tour
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Gabd660
Feb 10, 2024
Memories for a lifetime! - Such a great full day tour with Savith, my guide. He showed me little local businesses, explained a lot, tought me khmer language and I even got to help with rice paper and dried banana production thanks to the families. Such great people, so friendly. All along the road. The great thing about Soksabike is, that all the businesses get a part of the paid amount. Totally recommend this tour. 10 out of 10. Thanks again Savith!
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Suzanneta784li
Jan 26, 2024
Must do experience - Great guides and excellent experience. We learned a lot and tasted local foods and wine and saw quite a bit of the countryside in the process. Thank you 2 Paul's for a brilliant day.
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Cl_mentiner920
Dec 16, 2023
Amazing !! - Incredible day with Sophal my guide!
33km of cycling in total (very good quality mountain bike ++) interspersed with numerous stops with locals to discover their traditional know-how (making rice paper, rice wine, dried bananas, sticky rice). Lots of snacks!
We also stopped at a killing fields and a pagoda.
The landscapes crossed by bike were magnificent!
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R5276xhstefaniek
Oct 26, 2023
Great experience, fun - We strongly recommend this tour! You will get a lot of insights in life in Cambodia by both the local producers and your tour guide who answered all our questions.
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Macarenaa55
Jul 22, 2023
Super - Very interesting visit, we have learned a lot about cambodian people, its a nice approach to reality of the country outside the tourist spots. We had fun and a great time riding the bikes, the view of the rice fields was beautiful, we taste a lot of things and our guide was super friendly and responsible. Highly recommended tour. Thank you Phalla!
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Anthimal92
Mar 23, 2024
Rural full day tour outside Battambang - The route was super interesting, we went outside Battambang and passed through a few villages. We saw the life of people in the countryside, we were hosted at the house of a family, which was super sweet of them. Very grateful for our guide Peak who explained to us in detail all the processes of producing rice papers, rice cultivation, sticky rice, bananas plantation etc. Would have been amazing to get more stories about the people themselves or the life in general, and a bit less details about the process. Just a personal feedback!
It was a full day tour, so prepare for the heat. It was fantastic that they even cared for providing us hammocks to take a midday nap, as it was well deserved!
Totally recommend the company, as they support the locals to earn an extra income.
O kum!
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Claudioamabilec
Dec 19, 2023
Battambang land and life by bike - Unforgettable experience visiting the real Cambodia by bike with our young guide who took care of us. Very interesting day in the nature and visiting some typical work laboratories. Very good company Saksabike, we suggest it!! Claudio and Angela, Italy
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