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Dramatic skies in rainy season

18 September 2009 by Nathalie Abejero

Canadia tower and Wat Phnom to its left. view from Maxine's Bar.
Royal Palace is all the way to the left, off the pic.

There was a brief lull in the rainy season as usual this past August. But the rains are back in full swing again. The Mekong and Tonlé Sap Rivers are swollen rich from the monsoons up north. The Tonlé Sap River, which meets the Mekong towards the south of Phnom Penh in front of the Royal Palace, reversed directions about three or four times already, but volume and flow reversal has been weak due to dam building in China and Laos, north of Cambodia. [Read more…] about Dramatic skies in rainy season

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Cambodia, lightning, Mekong River, rainy season, Tonlé Sap River

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