Kompong Luong

Kompong Luong has all the amenities you'd expect to find in an oversized fishing village except that here everything floats on water. The result is a party ethnic-Vietnamese Venice without the dry land. The Cafes, shops, chicken coops, fish ponds, ice-making factory, crocodile farm and karaoke barrels or bunches of sinking by boat hulls, barrels or bunches of bamboo, as are the Vietnamese pagoda, the blue-roofed church and the colourful houses. In the dry season, when water levels drop and Tonel Sap shrinks, the entire aquapolis is towed, boat by
boat, a few kilo metres north.
     The popular of this fascinating and picturesque village is partly Vietnamese, so reflecting their ambiguous status in cambodian society - you may find the welcome here slightly more subdued than in most rural Cambodian towns, at least from adults. Khmer Rouge massacres of Vietnames villagers living around Tonle Sap lake were commonplace during the first half of the 1990s, and even as late as 1998 more than 20 Vietnamese were killed in a pogrom near Kompong Chhnang.      

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