I’ve always wanted to live on a boat, even a houseboat sounds like fun but not what we saw today. This is a large village, hundreds of houses built on bamboo rafts. We did see tv antennas but found out there is no electricity, they have Chinese batteries that run a small black and white tv. Fishing is there only means of support. These folks are heartbreakingly poor. Note the little kid on the front porch, our guide says they leave kids this age home alone when they go out fishing. It seems hard to believe they don’t have a lot of drownings.
One of my favorite sites were these little rafts with pigs in them.
There food comes from the water so snake and lemon grass soup was on the menu. It was quite good even though I was the only one in the group that ate it.
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