Cambodia's Great Lake, the Boeung Tonle Sap (Tonle Sap Lake,) is the most prominent feature on the map of Cambodia - a huge dumbbell-shaped body of water stretching across the northwest section of the country. In the wet season, the Tonle Sap Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Asia, swelling to an expansive 12,000 sq km. During the dry half of the year the Lake shrinks to as small as 2500 sq km.. But during the wet season a unique hydrologic phenomenon causes the river to reverse direction, filling the lake instead of draining it.
Chong Khneas is the floating village at the edge of the lake closest and most accessible to Siem Reap. It is interesting to see the various Khmer and Vietnamese floating households and the floating markets, clinics, schools and other boatloads of tourists.
Dried fish being sold off the roof of a boat
A pigsty
A church!!
The grocery store
The local school
The garbage dump
The 5 star hotel
The crocodile farm
View from the highest point of the floating village
A Vietnamese boy posing for a pic with a snake
A place of worship in the middle of nowhere
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