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Tonle Sap and Tahas River

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A different life

Every year during the monsoon season Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia overflows and floods the surrounding low lands. To cope with this annual flood, people build their houses on high stilts, or establish floating villages that migrate from the lake to the surrounding rivers and back as the waters rise and fall. This image of a mother and her baby poling a dugout canoe is from Kampong Phluk stilt village on the Tahas River, during the monsoon when Tonle Sap overflows into the river. Best larger.

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  • A different life
  • Fisherman-with-his-nets,-Kampong-Phluck-stilt-village,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Inspecting-the-nets,-Kampong-Phluck-village,-stilt-houses,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Village-life,-monsoon-season,-Kampong-Phluck-stilt-houses,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Stilt-houses-and-man-driving-long-tail-boat,-Kampong-Phluk,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Woman-paddling-dugout-canoe-with-a-load-of-water-hyacinths-past-Kampong-Phluck-stilt-village,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Fish traps
  • Village-life-in-the-stilt-houses-at-Kampong-Phluck-on-the-Tahas-River-during-monsoon-season,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Hospital ship
  • Dugout-canoe-full-of-women-and-children-on-the-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Woman-gathering-water-hyacinths-in-a-light-rain,-Tahas-River,-floating-houses,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Engine-repair-shop-on-a-floating-house-in-a-light-rain,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Woman-using-a-motorized-grinder-on-a-house-boat,-light-rain,-Tahas-river,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Tahas-river-in-the-light-rain-with-floating-houses,-Kampong-Phluck,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • River-life-with-hammock,-flowers-and-dog,-Kampong-Phluck,-Tahas-River,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Harvesting-fish-on-Tonle-Sap-during-monsoon-season,-near-Kampong-Phluck,-Cambodia
  • Rainy-day-during-monsoon-season-on-Tonle-Sap-with-dugout-canoe-and-houseboat,-Cambodia
  • Man-in-dugout-canoe-on-Tonle-Sap-during-monsoon-season-with-fish-traps-in-the-water-hyanciths,-Cambodia
  • Family-in-boat-during-monsoon-season-on-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia
  • Man-and-woman-fishing-in-the-water-hyacinths,-monsoon-season,-Tonle-Sap,-Cambodia-BW
  • arctangent

    on May 25, 2016

    Nicely composed and timed

  • James Clarke (jamri)

    on May 24, 2016

    Great insight to a very different of living.

  • Gene Hyder

    on May 22, 2016

    Terrific shot.

  • fotoeffects

    on May 22, 2016

    Love your composition!

  • Howard's Photography

    on May 22, 2016

    Excellent capture!

  • Rick Willis

    on May 22, 2016

    Nice Shot...

  • Donna McCommon

    on May 21, 2016

    Outstanding capture of a way of life.

  • Lgood

    on May 21, 2016

    I do like this Terry. Thank you for a glimpse into a life that I'll likely never get a chance to see.

  • Bill J Boyd Photography

    on May 21, 2016

    Nice capture.

  • God's Child

    on May 21, 2016

    Not only a "different life" but also a "difficult life" during monsoon season!
    5/21/2016

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