Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 7 (Xinhua) -- A total of 337 stilt houses in the water village Kampong Ayer in the capital city of Brunei have been monitored following a series of house collapse ...

stopping only to sleep in an over-the-water bungalow on stilts. On my final night, I lay on my belly, face peering through the glass-bottomed hut as neon fish darted between pylons and coral gardens.