Cambodia Pictures: Floating Village

These next two are houses that we passed on the way to catch the boat to go to the floating village. You can see how they are very flimsy and well-suited to being moved for the rainy season.



These next ones are all of the floating village. There are about 7000 people who live in this village, and if you see this lake from a plane, it is so large that you think it is an ocean - even in the dry season.
(How many US parents would let their kids row their own boats around at this young age with no supervision? When you live in a floating village, you have to know how to swim at an early age.)

(Even the schools float for this village. This school was donated by either the Vietnamese, the French, or the Japanese. The main rooms on are the first level, and the upper level is a basketball court. It is covered so that they can still use it in the rain.)

(Not only do the fisherman farm fish, but they also farm fresh-water alligators. These were the most active alligators I have ever seen, moving around, snapping their jaws, and going after one another.)

(This is a floating Catholic church. Bet you haven't seen one of those before!)