Kampong Phluk, Tonle Sap
Kampong Phluk, Tonle Sap is a stilted fishing village on Cambodia's great lake, known for its flooded forests and traditional houses raised on tall stilts.
Kampong Phluk, Tonle Sap
Kampong Phluk is a fishing community on the northern shore of the Tonle Sap, about thirty kilometres from Siem Reap. It is built on stilts, and the stilts are the striking part: six metres and more, so the houses stand high in the air for half the year and barely above the water for the other half.
That is because the Tonle Sap reverses. When the Mekong is in flood it pushes water back up the Tonle Sap river and the lake swells to several times its dry-season area, which is what the village is built for. In the wet season boats move between the houses; in the dry season the same route is a dusty road beneath them.
Boats run out through a channel of flooded forest to the open lake. The village is a working fishing settlement rather than a display, and it is markedly less visited than the floating villages closer to the main road.
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