The Floating Village
August 3, 2008
During the Khmer Rouge years, lots of people fled cambodia for Vietnam. In recent years they returned, somewhat illegally by building a boat and sailing up the Mekong from vietnam back into Cambodia, then across Tonle Sap, the biggest lake in SE Asia.
Problem is, the cambodia authorities didn't allow them on shore, and Vietnam doesn't allow them back in since they have no passport and can't prove who they are. So there are many hundreds of families living on floating shacks on the side of the river. Amazingly, there's a snooker hall and some of them even have Television.
The village is also home to a fish farm and a crocodile farm.
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The Catholic Church
Snooker hall in the floating vil…
Little kid swimming in the river
Tonle Sap
Crocodile Dundee!
The Crocodile Farm
What you lookin at?
Wee crocodile in a box
