The Siem Reap-Battambang River Ferry
 
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© John Holstein 2006
 
 
 
Tonle Sap Lake
 
 
Entering the lake Tonle Sop from the harbor that services Siem Reap. During the rainy season, the Mekong River backs up because there is too much water to empty into the South China Sea (just south of Ho Chi Min City). Tonle Sop then rises several meters.
 
 
 
 
 
For more photos of the "Floating Village" on this site, click here. You can see more photos and read more explanation at many, many other sites on the Web.
 
 
 
 
 
The boat in this photo is identical to the one that the photo was taken from. It takes anywhere from 4 to 7 hours to Battambang.
 
 
 
Tonle Sap River (from Siem Reap to Battambang)
 
 
These houses and the houses in the following photos aren't in the Floating Village on Tonle Sop, they're on the Battambang River.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The dried flotsam at the top of the tree shows how high this river gets when the Mekong backs up into Tonle Sap during monsoon.
 
 
 
 
Those very narrow benches become painful to sit on for 8 hours.
 
 
 
 
 
Fishing traps.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fishing net and the fisherman's house.
 
 
 
 
 
From another angle.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Welcome! Welcome, oh mighty white man, believer and blessed of the One True God!" For a few photos of Battambang, click here.
 
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