Life On The Water: 11 Floating Villages Across The World

Throughout history, civilisations flourished near rivers, lakes and other water sources to meet basic needs like drinking, washing and irrigating their lands to grow food. This can be seen even today as several modern cities are centred around rivers for commercial and industrial purposes. However, some communities live on water in tiny clusters or small floating villages. Also known as boat communities, these settlements on the surface of inland water bodies developed due to ethnic and occupational reasons.

Here is a list of 10 floating villages in various parts of the world.

1. Tonle Sap, Cambodia

One of the freshwater lakes in Cambodia, Tonle Sap, houses