A closer look
Personal space is a hilarious modern myth inside the traditional Bunong longhouses of Mondulkiri. These massive, windowless thatch tubes curve almost to the ground and are designed to house entire extended families, their harvests, and their loud, smelling farm animals under one singular roof. Tourism here involves realizing that Westerners pay good money for meditation retreats to escape their families, while the Bunong casually share an unpartitioned grass hallway with their in-laws and a handful of chickens.
