along the brunei river lies kampong ayer.ed buildings and over 18 miles of walkways. to get over to the floating village over there you have to take these water taxis which only cost one bruneian dollar and it is very choppy this little body of water, it is a channel almost, there is a lot of wind. a lot of these whitecaps, as you can see. bruneians have been living on the water for over 1000 years. kampong ayer itself goes back at least six centuries. as head villager, haji ahmed haji bujang is an authority on the community. do you see a new generation of bruneians coming to live here, to keep up the traditions? kampong ayer is said to be home to 30,000 people, most of whom are fishermen and craftspeople, but if the community is going to survive, it is going to have to attract a new generation. to entice people, the government has built these stilted houses from concrete. this, a new bridge, which will dramatically cutjourney times into the capital. these houses kind of overlook the old kampong, the old village, all made of

along the brunei river lies kampong ayer.the floating village over there, you have to take these water taxis which only cost one bruneian dollar. but it is very choppy, this little body of water, it is a challenge and there is a lot of wind and whitecaps as you can see. bruneians have been living on the river for over a thousand years. kampong ayer itself goes back at least six centuries. as head villager, this man is an authority on the community. do you see a new generation of bruneians coming to live here in kampong ayer to keep up the traditions? this place is said to be home to 30,000 people, kampong ayer is said to be home to 30,000 people, most of whom are fishermen and craftspeople. but if the community is to survive, it will have to attract new generation. to entice people, the government has built these stilted houses from concrete. and this, a new bridge which will dramatically cutjourney times into the capital. these houses kind of overlook the old village wall made of old timber and that metal grate on top. so i