Floating village on the lake Tonle Sap - Peoplephotography by worldcapture week #29

in #cambodia5 years ago

People without rights, citizenship, documents. They can not even walk on Cambodian land. Their world is bounded by the waters of the Tonle Sap Lake. Neighbors - 180 species of venomous snakes and crocodiles, clouds of mosquitoes. Look at my photo essay about these people. They should be miserable, but no.

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On the water of the lake, on the rafts live the Vietnamese. During the Vietnam War, 50,000 refugees descended the river to the lake and waited there for peace. Then they returned to their homeland. But they were not allowed. They said that refugees are traitors and they have no place in Vietnam. People had to go to Cambodia again. The Khmer king said: "You can settle anywhere, just not on earth." The refugees remained on the lake water. Without citizenship, rights and freedoms. But they like this life. How else to explain that their number increased from 50 to 500 thousand.

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At birth, each child is given a python that grows with the child. When a child reaches the age of completion - a python is killed. Such is the children's pet.

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People drink water from the lake, they wash and fish in it. And the lake also buries the dead. When a person dies, his body is wrapped in a film and sent under the raft on which the house stands. There the body is stored up to a year. If the money for cremation does not appear, the remains will go to the bottom of the lake.

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So the kids get to school.

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Now, residents have the opportunity to make money on tourists, and leave. But say that they do not really strive for this.

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I'm tired of writing, just watch.

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This is my entry to Week- 29 of contest by @worldcapture.

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Sometimes, I see such photos from places of the world, and I am given cause to give thanks to what I have. Your photos really captured a very different way of life, and I find it amazing that these people thrive from 50 to 500 thousands :O

I dont know if I can say that they are really 'happy' with this way of life, but I am glad to see resilience and grace of spirits in these photos, for sure :)

Thank you for sharing these!

@veryspider Thanks for your feedback, it is very nice that you are not indifferent. a look at a different way of life helps me a lot to overestimate my values

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a great post, and a great cake, @vibesforlife

each child is given a python that grows with the child. When a child reaches the age of completion - a python is killed.

какой в этом сакральный смысл?.. почему они так делают.

happy

каждый из нас счастлив скорее жить, чем нет. не думаю что они довольны такой жизнью на воде. просто человек привыкает ко всему.

каковы их источники пропитания? одна лишь рыбная ловля и выделывание крокодильей кожи? если им запрещено сходить с воды. а вообще, в Камбодже уже давно нет короля, думаю все это давно было пересмотрено...

@qwettie такая у них традиция! Думаю для них есть смысл, да и какое ещё животное там дарить ребёнку, не собаку же)) убивают, потому что змея к моменту совершеннолетиях становится большой и не безопасной. Своего рода ритуал с жертвоприношением.
На сколько я знаю и видела, ни чего не пересмотрено. Люди так живут и не особо стремиться что-то менять в своей жизни.

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да и какое ещё животное там дарить ребёнку, не собаку же

но, можно же никого не дарить?..
ясно насчет убиения питона тогда.
в общем, возможный быт обрастает традициями и ритуалами.
"закон жизни -- тайна веков" (с)

а вообще, большое мерси за такой интересный пост! и инфу к нему, и комментарии, это правда редкость и очень ценно. редиректнул нескольким знакомым.

И вам спасибо за обратную связь

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