The second strange thing about the lake (the first being that people row with their feet) is that most people live on the lake rather than the lake shore. There are a half dozen villages, built entirely on stilts in the lake. The lake shore, meanwhile, is basically empty, so again I'm not entirely clear on the advantages of sticking thousands of logs into the lake floor and building on top of them rather than the nearby ground like the rest of the world does. Pictured here are a couple of villages built around liquid main streets, and some temples.