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".

The road to the Lake

A road of ten km from Siem Reap which curves between the river and the lake

many houses with roof of straw or sheets, assembled on pile or floats

traditional drinking water earthenware jars in front of the each house

wood runways connect the house-boats to the road

little fish to dry on the road

unloading on back of mans, of the cargoes of the large boats

A floating school built by Belgian NGO "Terre des Hommes"

Main archeoligical places in Cambodia

Phnom Chisor

Angkor Borei

Roluos

Ta Keo

Kompong Thom

Tonle Bati

Angkor

Boat riding in the floating villages

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.