Kampung Ayer Water Village

The Water Village - Kampung Ayer - is the place most visited by tourists. It's a really unusual experience to float down its main streets, and take in the wooden palisades decorated with potted plants.
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Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara

But it's not done for tourists - local people have lived this way in the Water Village for over six hundred years. There are schools, shops, clinics, mosques and a police station in the Water Village. New upscale homes are being built, and even suburbs of the Water Village. 

Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara

In a residential building on the water in Kampung 

Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara
Kampung Ayer Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei-Muara