+855 99 743 283 (Cam) +61 412 744 715 (Aus)
Stay at the Village Pottery Garden Villa - Enjoy village walking tours - See potters at work - Learn to make pottery
+855 99 743 283 (Cam) +61 412 744 715 (Aus)
Stay at the Village Pottery Garden Villa - Enjoy village walking tours - See potters at work - Learn to make pottery
Our pottery residency includes free walking tours around the village as well as classes in traditional methods of making pottery. You can have your work packaged and sent home after they have been fired using traditional firing methods.
Khmer hospitality ensures you will remember the warmth and generosity of these gentle folk. Though very few of the villagers can speak another language other than Khmer, there's no language barrier as these people communicate through the universal language of love and kindness.
Our restaurant serves both western and Khmer cuisine and in short walking distance to street food and shops. The Kampong Chhnang Central Market is only a short tuk-tuk drive from the guesthouse where you can buy virtually anything for incredibly low prices.
We currently offer unique pottery experiences with traditional Khmer Potters in Cambodia. We offer tourists from around the globe (no pottery experience required) the opportunity of working with Khmer potters using their traditional methods as part of a village stay in Andong Reussey. The village is the last centre of traditionally made Khmer pottery and is located at the foot of Phnom Krang Dey Meas, a mountain offering hiking and sight seeing opportunities. Wonderful views of the countryside can be made from the Buddhist Monastery at it's summit. We also offer tours of the local area as well as facilitating tours to Angkor Wat. Cross the Tonle Sap River from Kampong Chhnang to Kampong Thom by ferry and catch a two hour bus journey to Siem Reap, home of the temples of Angkor Wat.
Kampong Chhnang is noted, not only for its pottery, but also the Floating Village on the Tonle Sap River and the Bamboo Village where everything bamboo is made.
Our Residency Program aims to facilitate social and cultural interaction between our clients and the Cambodian people through a traditional approach to clay pot making. In this residency, you will not be just an observer. You will have the opportunity to learn the Khmer way of creating pottery and share an inside view of your hosts' lives; discovering the aspects of life that mean most to the Khmers; their loves, joys, and imperatives.
Cambodian pottery in this environment is both decorative and functional, and for centuries was an essential part of trade both within and between the country and its neighbours.
Not only do the Koncho (bamboo shelter or spindle) provide a lovely sheltered picnic area, but they can be used as temporary and cheap accommodation for backpackers and local families. Each shelter has a light, fan, table, a mosquito-netted hammock, mosquito netted futons, shade cloth surround and shared bathroom/toilet available on the ground floor of the villa. There is an outdoor bathing facility as well. Western and Asian food can be ordered from the villa restaurant.