Sea Gypsies of Borneo
The Sea gypsies are an indigenous ethnic group of Maritime Southeast Asia. They live a seaborne lifestyle, making use of small wooden sailing vessels (known as perahu) for voyages through the seas of Austronesia.
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Uros Floating Islands, Lake Titicaca
The remnants of an ancient people, the Uru, still live on floating mats of dried totora (a reed-like papyrus that grows in dense brakes in the marshy shallows) on floatings islands of Uro which are about 17.
Huts and teepee-like dwellings are built on floating rafts of vegetation
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Floating Village – Ha Long Bay
The floating village is a cultural heritage and tourist attraction in Halong Bay, Vietnam. People have been living in these houses for hundred of years with fishing as the main income activity.
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Yawnghwe City – Inle Lake, Myanmar
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Village in the ocean, Philippines
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Ganvie Stilt Village, Benin
The floating city is home to 30,000 people whose bamboo houses rest only on stilts. People have lived here for several centuries and have no intention of moving.
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kampung water village
There are two main water villages namely Kampung Bebuloh and Kampung Patau-Patau in Malaysia . The wooden houses are built on stilts over water and are connected to each other by numerous walkways.
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Water Dwellings – Tonle Sap Lake
The name of the lake means “Large Fresh Water River” but more commonly translated as “Great Lake”. Tonle Sap is a combined lake and river system of major importance to Cambodia.
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Bronze Age Stilt Houses – Lake Constance
Incredible archaeological open air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic Stone Age and Bronze Age.
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