This baby's home is a boat. No room to play. Hot, dangerous and depressing.
The residents of these shacks live near the sewerage pumping station. Frankly, it usually stinks around here. You can see that the foreground is used as a makeshift dump. Highly unpleasant.
Phnom Penh has thousands of homes just like these. I couldn't live in one for a night.
These homes are plentiful in the Cambodian capital, too. They are lower-middle or middle class homes, I guess, with less well-off folk inhabiting the top floors. All levels will usually house large extended families.
And then there is this monstrosity. And while it's an extreme example - although it's becoming less so- it represents well the disparity of income here. Cambodia's kleptocrats* often live in such places.
* I've got no idea who lives here- it could be a fine and upstanding Cambodian businessmen who has never given into corruption, land-stealing or thuggery.
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