Chong Khneas is a good tourism community that attract tourist to come to visit beside temples. Chong Khneas is one commune among 10 other communes of Siem Reap city and it base on the south of Siem Reap town. In Chong Khneas commune there are 7 village that rank from 1 to 7. Chong Khneas is a new commune that wide from Phnom Krom to Tonle Sab Lake. The people in the community live on the high land especially living along the road that was built by Su Jing Company, and most of them live in the boat on Tonle Sab that known as floating house. Floating village is the special symbol of Chong Khneas community. Tourists can see general view of daily life of the people in floating village. The floating house was built and float a part from each other along the river to Tonle Sab Lake. There are boat and big pan for each family to move to other place.
Beside the houses, there are market, schools and Churches or Temple for the people in the community. There are 464 family that 300 family are Vietnamese, 84 family are Khmer and 80 family are Chames. More than 90% are fisher man and some of them are goods sellers and agriculture are very few. In rainy season from May to October those floating house move close to the river bank and in dry season from November to April they move from the river bank. To hold the house not to move around, they use long wood or bamboo to push deep into the ground under the river and take ropes to tie their house to the wood or bamboo.
The spectacular of Chong Khneas Community are Floating
Village, Fish and crocodile farm, Tonle Sab and sun set view, Boat rowing along
the floating forest and Khmer and Vietnam community schools.
