The Tonlé Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia. Its flow changes direction twice a year, and the portion that forms the lake expands and shrinks dramatically with the seasons. So from November to May during Cambodia's dry season, the Tonlé Sap drains into the Mekong River at Phnom Penh. And then when the year's heavy rains begin in June, the Tonlé Sap backs up to form an enormous lake.
So which is why when we were there in March, the lake was super low tide and super yellowish... Still, we had to pay USD15 per person to take a small ferry to tour around the lake. White-chan hopes that at least a portion of this super ex boat fee is given to the poor people living on Tonle Sap, not all makan up by the big rich Korean ferry company...
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