Tonle Sap Lake

The lake tour was fine, relaxing. It takes more than an hour to get there and the tour around the lake it's not that long, around 2 hours or 3. Watching the floating village and its people was amazing. The sunrise was not that special that day thou and the water is not green anymore, it's actually brown.

The largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia is flat, broad, 500 km long and 110 km wide, northwest to southeast, across Cambodia, in Phnom Penh city and across the Cambodia Mekong River. It is Cambodian people's "Lake of Life". She is also known as the "famous overseas" water home, a large number of stateless refugees who have lived in temporary shelters on the lake for decades. Some Cambodians, however, believe that they are deliberately staying here in case Vietnam is going to invade Cambodia in the future. The numbers are hard to measure, and they live a breathtakingly hard life, for both war and any reason.

Lake tonleisa, also known as lake phnom penh, is located in the northern part of cambodia, and is located in the heart of cambodia, is the largest freshwater lake in south-east asia. The lakeside plain is flat and wide, 500km long and 110km wide, northwest to southeast, across Cambodia, and Phnom Penh and the Mekong River across Cambodia. It is like a huge green jade, set in the Cambodian land, for the Khmer nation development and prosperity provided a solid resource security, is the Cambodian people "Lake of Life".

Can you imagine someone living on the water for life and never being able to go ashore? Tonle Sap Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and the second largest freshwater lake in the world. It is also called Phnom Penh Lake. After the rise of tourism in this country, it became a scenic spot. There are floating houses, floating schools, and floating police stations... Everything is done on the water, and the people living on the water are Vietnamese refugees. Regarding the origin of the Vietnamese refugees, it is said that they fled here to escape the war. After the war, the two governments did not recognize them, Vietnam no longer accepts them, and Cambodia does not care, restricting them to living in the lake, not going ashore, and without nationality. The water in Tonle Sap Lake is very turbid, just like the life of Vietnamese refugees. The “down-to-earth” action we take for granted is a luxury for them. When we cruised the Tonle Sap Lake, we often saw all kinds of children with a snake wrapped around their necks, rowing boats approaching us, and when we saw us holding up our mobile phones, they said "photograph and give money", surrounded by the boats. The main job of women and children is to find tourists and ask for things and money. Children here usually speak these sentences in Chinese: Give money, take pictures and give money, give me... On the afternoon of October 2, 2019, we shared a lake with Vietnamese refugees and watched the sunset together. Then we went ashore and left. They were trapped on this piece of water for life, and everyone faced an unpredictable fate. Therefore, people should always go to that remote place, take a look at the world, take a look at the lives of others, and then know what they have now and how to cherish them.

In a place with relatively yellow water, you can take a boat trip, and the person who drives the boat will let you go for a while, a very comfortable half-day tour. You can see the village on the lake, there are many small water snakes, there is a crocodile gift shop.