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Siem Reap-Battambang River Ferry
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© John Holstein 2006
© 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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