Arrive at Kampung Ayer Jetty. Kampung Ayer is perhaps the most startling facet of Bandar Seri Begawan. An extensive village built on stilts over the Brunei River; it has no equivalent anywhere else in the world. Today, Kampung Ayer is still growing and its sprawling  jumble of timber houses now stretches some eight kilometers along the river. The stilted city, is actually a collection of small kampongs each with their own names and their own Government-appointed leaders, or Ketua Kampung. The myriad homes, which have piped water and electricity and interconnected by a maze of wooden walkways along which it is possible to walk from one end of the village to the other.