Scenes from Cambodia
Many houses in Cambodia's ever-changing seasonal lakes are built on stilts. They rise above a muddy plain in the dry season, but are surrounded by a sea of water when the rains come.
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Many Cambodians in this region live on less than a dollar a day -- or simply don't use cash at all.
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A floating cafe in the village of Kampong Phluk. Instead of erecting stilts, some residents elect to ebb and flow with the waters.
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In the stilt village of Kampong Phluk, the lake served as the primary thoroughfare.
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Stilt houses rose above the water in Kampong Phluk.
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Neighbors visited a floating house in Kampong Phluk.
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Fried shrimp, held together with a little rice flour. Fresh fish and crustaceans are ubiquitous in this waterlogged area of Cambodia.
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Shrimp are boiled beneath a stilt house in Kampong Phluk.
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Around Kampong Phluk, even modern houses are on stilts.
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Sticks are harvested in the flooded forest at the edge of Tonle Sap lake, near Kampong Phluk.
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Houses float in the village of Chong Kneas.
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Stone faces at Angkor's Bayon temple, a world-class attraction not far from the impoverished aquatic village of Kampong Phluk.
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Angkor Wat and the complex surrounding it, including the Banteay Srei temple, draw droves of tourists.
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Carvings at Banteay Srei temple, part of the Angkor complex.
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