Living on a Lake
Posted on June 1, 2014
Just South East of Siem Reap, lies the village of Kompong Phluk. It’s a village built entirely on stilts as it sits within the flood plains of Tonle Sap. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia. During the monsoon the lake increases in size by about 5 times, and its depth goes from 1m to 9m. The reason people settled in this area is because of the massive amounts of fish they can catch when the waters recede again. Also the plains can then be used to grow rice.
Still, a pretty hard and isolated life.
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