A young fisherman - Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

A young boy harvests shrimps with a traditional landing net - Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

The Tonlé Sap, from Khmer "Large Fresh Water River", but more commonly translated as "Great Lake", is a combined lake and river system of major importance to Cambodia.
It is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia and is an ecological hot spot that was designated as a UNESCO biosphere in 1997.
The Tonlé Sap is unusual for two reasons: its flow changes direction twice a year, and the portion that forms the lake expands and shrinks dramatically with the seasons and the people who live on the lake have to move their houses away when the water level goes down. Whole villages including schools, shops, churches and farms are getting pulled away to a place where the water is still high enough to float.
The Tonlé Sap River connects the lake with the River Mekong at Phnom Penh, in the south east.

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Taken in: Cambodia (show map)

Taken on: February 17, 2009

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