Sharing Corner (分享天地): Tonle Sap

Tonle Sap is the biggest fresh water lake in Cambodia and Asia. It is about 215km in length and start from Seam Reap Province to Phnom Penh. There are many people stay on this lake and many of them are fisherman. They stays on their boat and do everything on it. As there is no water supply, the people here use the water from the lake to cook, bathe and wash. The school is also located on the boat. For the food supply, they even have floating market such as groceries boat and vegetables boat. Many of them have to stay in dark after sunset as there is no electricity supply too. For the rich one, they have generator but for the poor one they have to depend on candles. The lake is quite busy because there are many tourist boat visit the floating village. According to the tourist guide the depth of the lake is about 15m in wet session.