Fishing Village

While in Siem Reap, we took a tour to the Fishing Village community that has a population of several thousand. These families live in homes that float on the water. As the lake rises during the rainy season, they move the homes from one area to another. They have a school, health clinic, stores, basically everything a small rural village would have. One picture above is the traveling store that you can purchase items from as it comes by your house. This village was on the Tonle Sap Lake which is the largest fresh water lake in Asia. During the rainy season, water flows north from the Mekong River at their junction near Phnom Penh. I don't think we will have villages like this on the Mekong that the medical boat will come in contact with, but the people and life of the village is very similar.