Cambodia: Stilted housing close to the Great Lake or Tonle Sap, near Siem Reap. The flood plain of the lake is vast hence the very tall stilts

In Angkorian times most common folk lived in stilt houses with wooden staircases leading to a single story. Beneath the house, women weaved and domestic animals sheltered. Human waste was commonly deposited through holes in the floorboards to the gratitude of the household's pigs and dogs below.

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CPA Media Co. Ltd.

Photographer:

David Henley

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Pictures From Asia