Tonle Sap Lake

[From my notebook]
Tonle Sap Lake is massive! I can’t remember exactly how big they said it is in the dry season, but they did say that even in the dry season you can barely see either bank from the middle and the floodplain stretches for miles, so in the wet season it is even bigger, almost big enough to be called a freshwater sea. The lake also has so many fish, and people who may never see land much less set foot on it. The lake is connected to the Mekong River and so it flows two directions each year, because in the rainy season the Mekong backs up and starts flowing backwards.