Homes at the lake edge, this is where we boarded the boat for our trip.

Again, the poverty was striking, none of the homes in the area have electricity or running water. The government do not provide utilities, it's up to the local people to dig their own wells for water.

They keep their livestock in the area beneath the houses which are built on stilts.

These apparently floating shrubs are in fact the tops of the trees in the area now inundated by the extended size of the lake.

Mother and baby.

I took this photo of a photo to explain the effect of the dry season on the watery environment that is the Floating Village of Kompong Phlok.

Our guide had a copy of National Geographic July 2009 which included an article on this area.

This is the main street of the village as it is now. The water depth is two to three metres. By January it will be dry as the next photo shows.

We made a really interesting trip to what is know locally as a floating village. The area is part of an amazing natural phenomenom. Tonle Sap, the largest lake in SE Asia expands by over 50% in the rain season and then reduces again. By January it will be a village of houses on stilts. Right now it looks like a flood zone.

The following pics might explain.

This is the boat we took to explore the area.

View of the meeting of four rivers in Phnom Phen as we flew to Seam Reap, Cambodia.