On Friday our guide Kim took us to the Kampong Khleang Stilt Community that is based along side of the very large Tonte Sap Lake about an hour from Siem Reap.
The homes in this unique community are all built on very high stilts due to the monsoon flooding that occurs every year. They are unable to use local roads, child are boated to schools and generations have learned to live with the flooding of their village. Houses are large and multiple generations will live in one home. Fishing is their main industry and it was fascinating to watch some of them empty their nets after a day of fishing.
Our tour included a long, leisurely boat ride along their home river, viewing the maybe a hundred stilt houses, walking around the main village that does have a street and a temple, and then going out into the huge lake where we couldn’t see some of the far shores. For the tourist industry that comes to see the village, floating restaurants have been built on the lake to add to the “experience”.
2023 Travels of Pat and Dirk in Vietnam and other S.E. Asia countries 
Those are very interesting buildings!
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