Floating Village

We boated around a floating community out on the largest freshwater lake in southeast Asia. The Tonle Sap Lake is one of the most productive inland fisheries in the world, connected to the Mekong River through the 100 km long Tonle Sap River. We are visiting during the dry season, so it is estimated at 2000 square miles in surface area today, compared to 5000 during monsoon season. Floating houseboats everywhere, with locals using small wooden boats with long pole propellers to commute back and forth. They even had a floating garden where they grow vegetables to supplement all the fish that they eat.

We prayed to the Buddha that we were not having lunch out in the village, as we are all pretty unsettled by the amount of pollution in these waters that are being fished for consumption. Our prayers were answered.Read more