The Tonlé Sap river

Tonlé Sap

15-Aug-00


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Tonlé Sap is the largest lake in Cambodia - and the source of 90% of the fish protein consumed here. It actually changes direction twice a year as the Mekong floods. We took a boat down the Tonlé Sap to Phnom Phen

Vietnamese village

There is a sizable ethnic Vietnamese minority in Cambodia, and most of them live along the Tonlé Sap river where they work as fisher-folk.

Floating house

Going to market

Sun dried chilies

In the rest of the third world you see peasants drying food (rice, coffee, etc) on roadbeds, as they are conveniently flat and clear of vegetation. Here there is no road, so a barge will do.

Storks