Friday, March 6, 2009

Siem Reap/ Tonle Sap - 6th Mar

sunset wasn't that fantastic today as it was rather a cloudy evening..





Tonle Sap fresh water shrimps is a better choice..
another aphrodisiac tonic for sale..

not only fishes..
including this pet of hers..
like our 'kelong', back home where they rear fishes on a commercial basis..
arriving at this pontoon.. an upper deck built for visitors to catch the sunset..
the floating village from a distance.. the lake is s0 huge where you can only see the horizon on the other side.. this unique lake, acts as a reservoir to the surrounding catchment areas and the magnificent Mekong where the access water will flow into this lake increasing the size to almost 5 times.. at it's smallest of 2,500 sq km and at it's largest (about 3 to 4 months a yr) to about 12,000 sq km.
that's the floating basket ball court for the community at floating village.

changing address seem easy.. just call a tug boat.
Almost all the villages here are fisherman, living on 200 types of fishes in this fresh water lake with an annual catch, said to be 400,000 tons.

having set off late, we only manage to visit one village which is the nearest frm Siem Reap, call the floating village.
water is extremely muddy..

even at the busy tributaries to the lake, left-hand drive is observed.
A good rest today doing nothing but, eat and sleep. we decided to visit Tonle Sap.. set off in a private taxi (USD10/ round trip) at 4pm to Tonle Sap, the largest lake in southeast Asia. After a 40mins car ride, we arrived at one of the tributaries to the lake and board this 'longboat'..
resting in the hotel the whole day till late noon, I recovered pretty well.. though feeling a little weak, but there's, no more headaches, fever or sore throat..

4 comments:

  1. good to hear you are well and recovered & on the road again...nice view of d sunset....

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  2. I've learnt that the fastest way to recover from the illness is the injection (plus lots of rest) instead of oral medication.

    Glad you've recovered.

    God bless.

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  3. I remembered having steamboat at Tonle Sap (when I was there in 2004) where we had live shrimps as one of the dishes for the steamboat.

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  4. oh.. you were here in '04..? thats a long time ago and road has improved a lot now.. thnks everyone for all the blessings.. cheers..!! will be home soon

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