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Siem
Reap town
Siem reap the angkor
Wat gate and tonlé sap
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Bird
sanctuary
Bird Sanctuary of Prek Toal
floating village
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Tours Angkor travel,
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TONLE SAP
LAKE |
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The road of the
lake / boating on the lake / Speed Boats for Phnom Phen |
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Tonle Sap lake: For those which like a deep 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 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 fresh water earthenware jars in front
of the gates |
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wood runways connect the house-boats
to the road |
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Séchage des touts
petits poissons à même la route |
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unloading on back of mans
the cargoes or large boats |
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A floating school built by
Belgian NGO "Terre des Hommes" |
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Ballade in boat
in the villages of sins floating |
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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 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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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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On the lake Tonle Sap, an ornithological
reserve, with among the many birds, Pelicans, Storks, and Large
Marabouts. One day excursion on the lake and discovered villages
and of a petrified forest. ( Siem
Reap ) |
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Speed boats Siem Reap-
Phnom Penh |
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Each morning at 7 AM, leave
the speed boats to join Phnom Phen or other cities |
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The travel take 5h to Phnom
Phen (or Phnom Penh to Siem
Reap) |
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Each traveller has a place numbered
inside the boat, but it is sometime more pleasant to travel on
the roof because we better see the landscapes |
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Many villages on the banks and
many fishermans on the lake |
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Everyone eats on board,
and these girls, are eating a seasonal speciality, skewers of
locusts with honey |
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