Wascana lake.
Would you swim in it? Eat the fish you caught out of it? Bath in it? Live in a floating shack on it? These people sure would!
On my way to Phnom Penh, I made a stop in Pursat so I could take a day trip to Kompong Luong, a floating fisherman's village. It has all the amenities you could imagine including computer repair shop, a catholic church, ice making factory, snooker bar, and hair salon! It is only accessible by boat, even throughout the village which is quite the sight to watch dogs and elderly trying to steady themselves from boat to shop and vice versa.
The water of Tonlé Sap was absolutely fowl which turned from a green sludge Polluted with floating dead fish to a thick cocoa color that people swam and fished in. If I ever though I'd eat fish here, I've changed my mind. The location of the village can also vary within a few kilometers as when the water drops the whole village is moved.
It was definitely a sight to see, again baffled at how these people have television, or even electricity for that matter. This needs to be on a episode of How It Works.
Fun fact: I got bit? Pecked? By a chicken. It scared the living daylights out if me. I stepped out of the tuk tuk and was jabbed at followed by an awful clucking scream. I looked down and there was a chicken, just lying there, it's legs tied together and it tied to the exhaust of a moto. People do some crazy shit out here, if you think a chicken is hanging dead, it's not.
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