In the southern lower altitudes, thatched bamboo houses are common; buildings progress to simple stone structures in higher altitudes.

Until this day, entire clans live together in bamboo houses and each village has its own individual character.

Surrounded by emerald-green fields of rice, spotless bamboo houses are perfumed with garlands of flowers.

From 1667, bamboo houses, as well as the keeping of livestock, were banned within the city.

One refugee wrote that "pretty new bamboo houses" were built for Khmer Rouge cadres along the river in Phnom Penh.

People are working in the rice fields and stilted bamboo houses complete the rural scene.

His widow now lives with her sister in a bamboo house with woven straw-mat walls a half-mile from the Myanmar border crossing.

There is a bamboo house for bachelors are also available to stay only for 5 persons.

Memorabilia on display include a pair of three-foot servants made of bamboo with a fully furnished bamboo house, about the size of a refrigerator.

In the clearings in front of the bamboo houses, men store grain in large lacquer pots, while women sit sifting rice in lacquer plates.