We went on a full day tour with Sophear at Sam Veasna in January (dry season). What an amazing trip. Both my husband and I saw a variety... read more of engendered birds while we were boating down Tonle Sap lake and then we got to the 2-3 story bird watching tower, we saw thousands of birds - nesting and swirling in the sky. We saw painted sporks, pelicans, adjutants (and many, many more). It was like being on a National Geographic TV show. Our guide was incredibly knowledgeable and he was good at spotting birds. It was one of our highlights on our trip to Cambodia!

  I used a bird guide to tour the temples.

I'm a keen birder so it made sense but I'd recommend for anyone as he also knew the temples well... read more and, because of the birding aspect you get to see a different side - for example coming in to Angkor Wat from the rear to go through a nice forest patch.

I got 49 species in 2 days, my guide was really nice as well as professional and knowledgeable and I would very much recommend this.

I will go back for more birds and not as intense on temples.

All in all very worth while.

  I really enjoyed this tour and it was a nice change of pace from the temple focused tours more typical for Siem Reap. That said, birding in the back drop... read more of Angkor Wat is very special and will be a lasting memory. My guide (Preah)...More

  We booked a six-day private tour and it was worth every penny. Our guide Mr. Huon Hat was excellent with a keen eye for birds and other wildlife, next to... read more being a very pleasant and helpful guy. The tour was very well organized, accomodations were located in the immediate vicinity of important birding areas and meals (cooked by locals) delicious.

With regard to birding we first visited Prek Toal birding colony where we saw Asian Openbill, many Painted Storks and Spot-billed Pelicans, a couple of Lesser Adjudants and - very far - a pair of Milky Storks and Great Adjutants. At the end of the day we had seen 58 uniques species and returned to our hotel very satisfied.
Over the next few days we visited the grasslands, BeTreed, Tmat Boey and the Vulture Restaurant and added Bengal Florican, Giant Ibis, White-shouldered Ibis, Green Peafowl, the three species of vultures and countless other birds to our ever growing species list. We ended up with well over 100 unique species on this tour. My personal interest is butterflies which we had ample time to study while birding and take some nice pictures as well. Add in the occasional gibbon, snake and squirrel and we had a very productive look into Cambodian wildlife. Thank you SVC for making this possible, organizing it so well and all the good work that you do protecting endangered animals while cooperating and supporting the local communities.

  We booked a half day trip to the Angkor Park. I am disabled and when out and about use a scooter or wheelchair, and we don’t get up quickly in... read more the morning! So a dawn trip was out as was the very long day’s trip to Tonlie Sap.
We has a brilliant time walking through the woods just outside the Angkor Wat wall. Unlike the hurly burly of visiting the temple, it was quiet, with no one else around and our guide Sophear, was brilliant at finding and identifying the birds. Thanks also to the driver, who patiently pushed me over some challenging terrain!
It was magical being in the woods walking along the boundary wall. There were various bit of stonework from the temple lying around and a gate house through which we could see Angkor Wat temple.
Highly recommended!

  We took the Koh Ker, Beng Mealea Forest Temples tour, which more than met our objective of seeing more of the local habitat and countryside beyond the most visited Angkor... read more temple circuit. The added advantage was birding, which included close-ups of in our case 67 different birds, enhanced by photographs using the Swarovski optik scope. Our young guide Mr. Reth Sarom was both an accomplished sighter of the species but also had the added advantage of a command of the cultural history of the Koh Ker site; his versatility was evident and we strongly recommend his services to others. Overall, the experience with this tour more than compensated for the crowds and pressures we experienced on our first day at the most visited sites in Siem Reap -- I was glad to have explored the web to find Sam Veasna rather than rely on the standard itineraries furnished by our top-of the-range hotel.