Get in touch with the beautiful Battambang Province and District

Get in touch with the beautiful Battambang Province and District

Battambang is the “heart of the Cambodian rice bowl”. It is located around Tonle Sap Lake, blessed with many harvests of nature. Although the people of Battambang have had to endure many difficulties over the past, the province luckily has many cultural heritages to offer for tourists.


Banan temple, Ek Phnom temple, Baset temple and Snoeung temple were all built more than a thousand years ago. In many ways, we think of Battambang as very rich in natural resources with resorts as Sek Sark, Pich Chanda, Cham long Kuiy, Koh Sne, Chro Lorng Bop Ta, Lor Ang Spean, the Sampov Mountains, Rom Say Wat Ek phoneSak, Kdong, Takream, Andoeuk, Trungman, the floating village of Truug Tia, the Bantay Sat bird park and many ancient caves in the province.

Moreover, the Battambang province consists of many ancient houses, pagodas and reorganized resorts as the Tahok Mountains which largely benefit recreation of national as well as international tourists. In fact, in 2006, a considerable increase in tourists who came and visited these places was able to help our authorities to reduce the poverty of the people.


Banan temple

The important role tourism plays in the field of social development cannot be overlooked. As a matter of fact, we need to improve quantity as well as quality of hotels, guest houses, restaurants, night clubs, tour agencies and means of transportation to answer back in time to the call of an increasing number of tourists setting foot to the Battambang province.

So, from Battambang center, just follow the river road south along the Sangker River. Not long and you’ll arrive at Banan temple, surrounded by beautiful natural scenery. Located only 2 km south from Battambang’s Psar Nat or central market along the Sangker River, tourists can find the cultural, agricultural and fruit villages of Watkor commune. The people of these three villages welcome you to come and enjoy insights into the true Cambodian way of life…

The three villages are: Watkor Cultural Village and Agricultural Villages Kompong Seyma and Ksach Puy.