**This is a repost of a previous image as I wasn't aware that the new UF was sharpening my photos on upload.**
The Tonle Sap is a large inland lake that comes and goes with the rainy and dry seasons in Cambodia. When its rainy season, the lake is thousands of square kilometres in size. In dry season it shrinks dramatically, disappearing in many places.
All the houses on the Tonle Sap are built on stilts. Here you can see that the lake is clearly receding, and when the rains come back in the late summer, the water level will rise to the top of those stilts. An interesting way of life can be found in this part of Cambodia.
Amazing that the water rises so high in this area during the rainy season. There way of life changes continously. It really would be interesting to see an image taken from the same area with the water during the rainy season.
hi jim.... i was in cambodia in october 2002 and the lake is usually full at that time. right now they're in the dry season so it's receding. i think its actually better to go in between dry and wet, that way you can see people on the water doing what they do, and also see some building on the stilts.
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