Many houses in Cambodia's ever-changing seasonal lakes are built on stilts. They rise above a muddy plain in the dry season, but are surrounded by a sea of water when the rains come.

Many Cambodians in this region live on less than a dollar a day -- or simply don't use cash at all.

A floating cafe in the village of Kampong Phluk. Instead of erecting stilts, some residents elect to ebb and flow with the waters.

In the stilt village of Kampong Phluk, the lake served as the primary thoroughfare.

Stilt houses rose above the water in Kampong Phluk.

Neighbors visited a floating house in Kampong Phluk.

Fried shrimp, held together with a little rice flour. Fresh fish and crustaceans are ubiquitous in this waterlogged area of Cambodia.

Shrimp are boiled beneath a stilt house in Kampong Phluk.

Around Kampong Phluk, even modern houses are on stilts.

Sticks are harvested in the flooded forest at the edge of Tonle Sap lake, near Kampong Phluk.

Houses float in the village of Chong Kneas.

Stone faces at Angkor's Bayon temple, a world-class attraction not far from the impoverished aquatic village of Kampong Phluk.

Angkor Wat and the complex surrounding it, including the Banteay Srei temple, draw droves of tourists.

Carvings at Banteay Srei temple, part of the Angkor complex.