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February 18, 2007
Tonle Sap (Katy)
Today we visited Tonle Sap Lake. It's a massive lake, here in the North of Cambodia but at the moment it's pretty small compared to the size it reaches at some times of the year.
When the Mekong river floods with melt water and rain there is too much water to flow down and out though the Mekong delta so the water actually backs up. The river flows up hill and a lot of the water ends up in The Tonle Sap, which triples in size.
They believe that this may have helped with the constuction of Ankor Wat temples, thousands of years ago. In wet season materials or other supplies could be brought up the river, in to the Lake and right to Ankor.
Posted by admins at February 18, 2007 9:04 AM