Cambodian and Vietnamesse

Asia » Cambodia » North » Tonlé Sap

Advertisement
Cambodias flagPublished: May 9th 2010Asia » Cambodia » North » Tonlé Sap
May 9th 2010

After few days staying in Siem Reap. I decide arrange tours to cruising through Tonle Sap lake to see floating village. We start at 4pm and take roughly 40min to reach that place from center of Siem Reap city.
Riding with a Tuk Tuk will give some exposure of Cambodian villagers. They still using candlelight
as a lamp, cow and colt as main trainsportation, children playing with a dust. This is very native, while i still remember my mum told me that i can see Malaysian 50years ago.

The boat ticket cost USD15, and we start cruising the river. No accompany, only me, boatmen and his conductor. I can't recalled their names ( i got bad memorize d;) ) Got a lot of shuttle boat that come and go between this river, that is good business for local people as well.

According to the conductor ( I assume he as my guide as well ), this lake is divide by 2 community of people, Cambodian and Vietnamesse. During raining season, the Cambodian will go back to land side and be a farmer for the whole season, while Vietnamesse will stay at the lake and be a fishermen. Rumour saying that they can't cooperate each other is not true at all by seeing this harmony bunch or people living together.

Go surround the lake, visit crocodile farm, see how the villagers survive by living floating on the lake.
It such an amazing experience and i'm still thinking what are they doing at this time.

Till then...



There are more photos below
Photos: 11
Displayed: 11


Advertisement

Areep
Just simple ordinary human, start to put traveling as main passion in my life. This Travelblog will be my diary to put all my traveling story. Have a nice day .! http://www.flickr.com/kchixareep http://www.flickr.com/areep-logue http://www.youtube.com/user/e4rplug Follow my updated story at:- http://areeplogue.blogspot.com ... full info
JoinedMarch 27th 2009 Trips5
Last LoginMarch 4th 2013 Followers1
StatusBLOGGER Follows1
Blogs20 Guestbook5
Photos281 Forum Posts5
Blog Options
Cambodia
Cambodia mapCambodia flag
Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ...more info
Advertisement

Trips
South East
April 5th 2010 -» ongoing
Sandakan - Tawau - Mabul
October 3rd 2010 -» October 10th 2010
Medan Lake Toba
November 11th 2010 -» November 14th 2010
Singapore
December 10th 2010 -» December 13th 2010
Indochine Trip ( Vietnam - Cambodia again - Thailand )
June 13th 2011 -» July 6th 2011

Blogged From
Visited Countries
TravelBlog Awards










Comments
Date: 11th May 2010

Cambodian and Vietnamese
Actually there are no Cambodian people living in those floating houses. They are all Vietnamese, they don't have any houses on land, and they are there all the time. If you paid enough attention, you would recognize Vietnamese spoken and Vietnamese written (in Latin alphabets) here and there. They're all struggling to survive every day because very little fish left in the lake. Happy travels!

From Blog: Cambodian and Vietnamesse
Date: 15th May 2010


Thanks for your info. Maybe this 2 guys ( the captain and his assitant ) is vietnamesse too. We don't even know right .? LOL

From Blog: Cambodian and Vietnamesse




Tot: 0.118s; Tpl: 0.007s; cc: 12; qc: 54; dbt: 0.0355s; 1; s:apollo w:www (50.28.60.10); sld: 1; ; mem: 6.4mb