Tonle Sap Lake settled South of Siem Reap City is the maximal lake in Cambodia and plays an whole conception in the biology equilibrise of the country.
In the parched flavour it is a alter lake which drains finished the Tonle Sap River into the Mekong River at Phnom Penh. However this changes in the June – November monsoon flavour when the broad liquid verify of the Mekong River causes a alter flow up the Tonle Sap River into the lake area. The inflow increases the filler of the lake from its baritone of 2500 conservativist kilometres to over 10,000 conservativist kilometres. This makes the lake the maximal freshwater lake in the South East Asia during the dewy season.
The flooded mangrove realty plains are bag to over 100 varieties of liquid birds including a sort of threatened or endangered species. There are over 200 varieties of seek in its humour as substantially as crocodiles in maroques otters and turtles.
The lake is populated with floating villages colonised by both Cambodian and Vietnamese communities. The individualist villages are an amazing range with their floating houses, markets, schools and churches. The villagers earn a experience from sportfishing with their Brobdingnagian seek traps catching sufficiency to supply Cambodia with half of its seek consumption.
One of more striking floating villages is Chong Khneas. It is 12 kilometres southward of Siem Reap and is a departure/arrival saucer for the Phnom Penh ferry service and also Tone Sap lake tourist trips.
