Tonle Sap Lake Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
lake in Cambodia
About Tonle Sap Lake
This lake is one of the most unique ecological water wonders in the world. It is the largest lake in Southeast Asia and changes in size and dimension every wet season. With a minimum size of 2,800kmand about 1 m depth during the dry season, the lake is fairly small. During the wet season the water of the Mekong River becomes so powerful, that it reverses the flow of the Tonle Sap River and pushes the surplus of rain water back into the Tonle Sap Lake. This transforms the lake into a huge natural water reservoir and the lake's size increases to approximately 15,000kmwith a depth of 8 m. The Tonle Sap River connects the lake with the River Mekong at Phnom Penh, in the southeast. With the continuous change of the water level, the people who live on the lake have to move their houses away when
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