Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia Map - Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia Cambodia's great Tonle Sap Lake

Cambodia's incredible Tonle Sap Lake sits just 15 km south of town, an interesting eco-framework and social region offering the chance to see an alternate side of the Siem Reap - drifting towns, social and nature visits, birdwatching... Fundamental pontoon visits can be orchestrated at the Chong Khneas vessel dock yet we suggest masterminding your visit through a trustworthy visit administrator in Siem Reap.

The Tonle Sap Lake is the most conspicuous component on the guide of Cambodia - a gigantic dumbbell-molded waterway extending over the northwest of the nation. In the wet season, the lake is one of the biggest freshwater lakes in Asia, swelling to a sweeping 12,000 km2. Amid the dry portion of the year it psychologists to as little as 2500 km2, depleting into the Tonle Sap River, which winds southeast, in the end converging with the Mekong River at the "chaktomuk" conjunction at Phnom Penh. Amid the wet season an extraordinary hydrologic wonder causes the Tonle Sap River to invert heading, filling the lake. The motor of this wonder is the Mekong River, which gets to be bloated with snow melt and spillover from the storm downpours. The swollen Mekong goes down into the Tonle Sap at the point where the streams meet at Chaktomuk, compelling the waters of the Tonle Sap River once again into the lake. The inflow grows the region of lake more than five-fold, immersing the encompassing forested floodplain and supporting an exceptionally rich and assorted eco-framework.

More than 100 assortments of waterbirds including a few debilitated and imperiled species, more than 200 types of fish, and additionally crocodiles, turtles, macaques, otter and other natural life occupy the immersed mangrove timberlands. The Lake is likewise a critical business asset, giving more than half of the fish devoured in Cambodia. In congruity with the specific biological communities, the human occupations at the edges of the lake is comparably unmistakable - gliding towns, towering stilted houses, tremendous fish traps, and an economy and lifestyle profoundly interweaved with the lake, the fish, the untamed life and the cycles of rising and falling waters.