Geographics & Weather

The Tonle Sap Lake is the beating heart of Cambodia (181000 sqkm) and many of the 14 million inhabitants depend on the fisheries and other forms of business that arise form the lake with many floating villages. The Tonle Sap is unique in the world by the fact that the river reverse the direction it is flowing according to the season. Also, during the raining the river flows from the Mekong to the Tonle Sap Reservoir and during the dry season get towards the opposite way. Everywhere one goes in Cambodia beautiful landscapes await from lush green rice paddies to the red earth of Rattanakiri, with ubiquitous sugar palm trees dotted all over the country. The south is also home to Bokor Hill, a hill station built by the French in the 1920’s overlooking the Gulf of Thailand.

Cambodia’s northeastern province of Rattanakiri is the home of several ancient and indigenous hill-tribes. These intriguing indigenous tribal people with their primitive lifestyles are threatened, though largely untouched by modern society and retain their own particular languages, cultures, rituals, and beliefs.