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CAMBODIA - Tonle Lake

​The Tonle Sap Lake is linked to the sea via the Tonle Sap River, which converges with the massive Mekong River in Phnom Penh. Kampong Phluk is a cluster of three villages of stilted houses built within the floodplain of the Tonle Sap about 16 km southeast of Siem Reap. The villages are primarily Khmer and have about 3,000 inhabitants between them. Flooded mangrove forest surrounds the area and is home to a variety of wildlife including crab-eating macaques and birds.
Because Tonle Sap’s water levels pulse with the seasons, it is known as the beating heart of Asia. The lake feeds the legendary Mekong River, but during the monsoons, the Mekong floods, backing up into Tonle Sap, which expands six times to 6,178 square miles and inundates forests, shrubland, and grassland. Today,this fecund ecosystem faces a litany of threats like overfishing, pollution, dams, and the conversion of floodplain habitats to rice fields and rubber plantations.
BEST TIME to VISIT CAMBODIA
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BEST TIME to TRAVEL to TONLE Lake
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From December to March
Low water season :
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