Hilton Chen
Tonle Sap
Dawn breaks over the stilt houses at Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in SE Asia, and in many ways is the beating heart of Cambodia. The Tonle Sap and the inland water system in Cambodia support some 500,000 tons of fish each year, and the flooded forests purify water and buffer communities from storms — an increasingly important benefit as climate change makes extreme weather more frequent. During the rainy season the Mekong River flows back into the lake, and you can probably surmise how high the water reaches by the stilt houses in the background.
Tonle Sap
Dawn breaks over the stilt houses at Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in SE Asia, and in many ways is the beating heart of Cambodia. The Tonle Sap and the inland water system in Cambodia support some 500,000 tons of fish each year, and the flooded forests purify water and buffer communities from storms — an increasingly important benefit as climate change makes extreme weather more frequent. During the rainy season the Mekong River flows back into the lake, and you can probably surmise how high the water reaches by the stilt houses in the background.