Tonle Sap Floating Village 2007-1-13
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The last place that we wanted to visit in Siem Reap was the floating village in a tributary river of Tonle Sap (great lake). Tonle Sap was a large lake with an area of 7500 square km during the raining season. When we were there, it was in dry season and the lake had shrunk to half of its previous size. It was one of the world’s richest sources of fresh water fish. To live in such an environment, people who lived on land built their houses on high stilts to take of the changes in the water levels, but for fishermen it was more practical to live in boat houses. All stilted house in this area were poorly built. They were just simple hut made of bamboo and cover thinly with leaves. This reflected the economic situation of the people in this area. Some of the people in the floating village were from Vietnam. The floatation used was mostly bamboo, and I didn’t know if the houses would remain semi-permanently in the same location or would be scattered in a wider area in rainy seasons. Judging from the number of tourist boats and the rest stations in the lake, the area must be popular to tourist.
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