Heading to Tonlé Sap: The road is very bumpy...

  Hello, but you are too young to drive, dear...

  Huts along rivers are commonly raised from the ground.

  A typical house in Banteay Chey, on the way from Siem Reap to Tonlé Sap

  Light-green paddy fields extend around Phnom Krom

  Behind them is a frame structure with a roof, which is their house.  The father is sleeping while the girls try to sell some souvenirs.

  He showed the floating village of Tonlé Sap.  The majority of the villagers are the 2nd and 3rd generations of Vietnamese immigrants.  He himself lives in the village.

  Houses are constructed on boats and ships.  During the dry season, they touch the bottom of Tonlé Sap and are hence stable, but the rainy season makes them float.

  Look so fragile...

  Hello,

  Tonlé Sap is so huge that I could have thought it's the sea.

  They use the Tonlé Sap water for washing, but they have to go to the city to buy drinking water.  They use car batteries for watching telly and using other electronic appliances.

  A typical kitchen, using charcoal

  ...and a toilet.  You do the thing directly into Tonlé Sap.

  The life on the water seemed difficult, but the village is properly equipped with necessary facilities, including a hospital, schools, a petrol station, etc.  Of course, all of these facilities are also floating on the water.

  A dinner with souvenir venders of Phimeanakas: Having had no formal education in foreign languages yet, the girl on the left can still speak in English reasonably.  They said they learn from tourists on the job.  Cambodia must have a pool of potentially good human resources.  Educational opportunities for these busy working kids are necessary.
 

  Classical Khmer dance slowly proceeds during the outdoor dinner.  "I don't want to go home yet!"