13 min

Fantasy Floating Villages | 50,000 People in Malaysia Actually Live OVER the Water 🇲�‪�‬ 2Up and Overloaded - ADV Motorcycle Travel Podcast

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Send us a Text Message.They call them “water villages” or “kampung air” in Malay, but I call them “fantasy floating villages” because they remind me of fantastical cultures of people that live completely off of the ocean. But these people are real, and there’s more than 50,000 of them in Malaysia, with an estimated 10,000 water houses built on stilts over the water. So of course, while we rode across the island of Borneo on our KTM 250 Adventure motorcycle, we had to check one out, and see ho...

Send us a Text Message.They call them “water villages” or “kampung air” in Malay, but I call them “fantasy floating villages” because they remind me of fantastical cultures of people that live completely off of the ocean. But these people are real, and there’s more than 50,000 of them in Malaysia, with an estimated 10,000 water houses built on stilts over the water. So of course, while we rode across the island of Borneo on our KTM 250 Adventure motorcycle, we had to check one out, and see ho...

13 min