Ton Le Sap Lake

Ok - so back to posting about our trip to Cambodia -while in Siem Reap, we went w/ M&D D one day to the biggest lake in Cambodia to visit the Vietnamese communities on the lake.

Everything is floating here – this is a school – classrooms on the bottom, gym on the top.




These pix were taken onboard one floating home. The pix w/ the colorful background shows all the décor dedicated to ancestor worship. Mom’s teaching a song to the little girl. The final pix is us just hanging out w/ them ‘cuz we sure don’t speak Vietnamese!


While we were hanging out we saw a funny sight…a dog following “his kids” in their boat – kinda like dogs following their owners to school in the US...but wetter! On the way back the kids let him ride home w/ them. Notice the floating homes in the background…multiply it hundreds of times & that’s the communities living there.


Notice in this picture the child sitting on the tall staircase – these homes are up on stills for when the lake floods – all the way up to their porch @ the top of the pix! If you look carefully you can also see a motorbike going by in the pix - carrying 3 adults & 2 kids - pretty normal. The 2nd pix is a sweet little kid waving from his boathouse ☺

For animal lovers out there like ourselves, here’s a couple pix – 1st a guard monkey on a boathouse & a seagull (1 of many) who figured out that by following our boat which stired up the water, it could grab fish easier – J was able to snap a pix of an actual catch if you look closely.