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TONLE SAP
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The road
of lake / Ballade in boat on the lake / Speed Boats for Phnom
Phen/bird sanctuary |
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Tonle Sap: For those which like an in-depth discovery of a
country, the road of the lake, as well as a ballade in boat with
the meeting of the villages of sins floating, are visits impossible
to circumvent as well as the temples. It is one of the places
or one is with the more meadows of the Kampuchean everyday life
and their reality. Here, all the life proceeds around water.
Very full of fish, paradise of the sinners, it shelters lake
villages since the night of times. Most of the goods arrive by
the lake and it is the lung of Siem Reap, because the main roads
to join the other cities are in too bad condition. It is the
largest lake of Kampuchea and its "feeder mother". |
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A road of ten km from Siem Reap which curves between
the river and the lake |
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many houses with roof of
straw or sheets, assembled on pile or floats |
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traditional drinking water earthenware jars in front
of the each house |
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wood runways connect the house-boats
to the road |
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little fish to dry on the road |
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unloading on back of mans,
of the cargoes of the large boats |
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A floating school built by
Belgian NGO "Terre des Hommes" |
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Main archeoligical places in Cambodia
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Boat riding in the floating
villages |
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A ballade in motor boat on the lake,
starting from Siem Reap, to go in the floating villages which
move with the liking of the current. They are often Vietnamese
villages or everyone practises fishing. These
boats , (photograph of left), have seats and a shelter for sun. |
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The children go to the Tonle Sap
school in boat |
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and the merchants in the dugouts
go from house in house to sell their products |
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All familys are fishing,
there is many fish in Tonle Sap |
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each house is assembled on
floats or flat boats |
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Meadows of each house boat,
a large fish pond surrounded by bamboos for alive fish |
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These houses and fish ponds
change place, according to the rise of water and the season |
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A removal... a boat of sins drawing
several houses. The village changes place. |
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Main archeoligical places in
Cambodia |
