Floating Village (2)
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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... [read more]
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... [read more] Blog: Cambodia: Floating Villages Of Chong Kneas
Date: May 11th 2006
Tonle' Sap (largest lake in Southeast Asia) These "floating villages" have a Catholic Church (65% of those who live on the lake are Vietnamese although a very small percentage of those in Cambodia as a whole are Vietnamese), 3 floating school houses, several floating stores, floating pig cages, etc... and despite not having any running water nor plumbing aprx 1/3rd of them had tv antennas (they ... read more
Date: May 11th 2006
Tonle' Sap (largest lake in Southeast Asia) These "floating villages" have a Catholic Church (65% of those who live on the lake are Vietnamese although a very small percentage of those in Cambodia as a whole are Vietnamese), 3 floating school houses, several floating stores, floating pig cages, etc... and despite not having any running water nor plumbing aprx 1/3rd of them had tv antennas (they ... read more
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