Video: City on the water. How to escape the heat in Cambodia
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What will save a person from the heat of a sultry summer? Relocation of the workplace closer to the sea - for example, in city on the water … Expensive? Cities on the water are not necessarily futuristic ships or bulk islands in the wealthy United Arab Emirates. In fact, building such a city is no more difficult than Noah's ark, and even with antediluvian tools of labor. The proof of this is the Cambodian village Kampong Pluck (Kampong Phluk), whose cunning inhabitants have found the best way to escape the heat.
From our article on unusual tourist trains in Cambodia, you realized that this country is poor, but very colorful. And, we add, it is very wet. Here there are thickets of rain forests and mangroves: rhizophore trees that grow on high stilt roots. Instead of soil, there is water. Especially at high tide. And it's always hot here, because the equator is very close.
In conditions of incredible heat and stuffiness for us, Cambodians, due to their poverty, do not use air conditioners. But they are right above the water! Their houses are built on six-meter piles, and the cool waters of the Tonle Sap River splash below. And the most dexterous of them even built house-boats; they make up the commune water towns Kampong Plukthat can float away anywhere.
The Tonle Sap River, which has sheltered the city on the water, flows out of the lake and then flows into the deep Mekong. But in the rainy season, it begins to flow in the opposite direction. As a result, during the rainy season, Tonle Sap Lake turns into a whole sea with an area of 12,000 square kilometers. Thus, having settled on the outskirts of the forest, in a few months you can be the owner of a house on the edge of the sea! This "sea" is a real reserve, 100 species of water birds, turtles, monkeys, crocodiles - and, of course, fish live here. Half of Cambodia's fish are caught in this lake.
But not for long. A few months later, the lake becomes shallow - but the river remains, and the inhabitants water towns Kampong Pluk do not stop fishing and escape the heat with the help of cool river water.
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