India’s Floating Islands: How People Live on Loktak Lake
People live on Loktak Lake in Manipur, India, by building bamboo-and-thatch huts called phumshangs on phumdis, which are floating mats of vegetation, soil and decaying roots. Fishermen travel by canoe, cut phumdi into circular fish traps called athaphum, and share the lake with Keibul Lamjao National Park, the world’s only floating national park. If you…