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Unique and strange house made of bamboo, wood and leaves: The Ede long house is 42.5 meters long in Vietnam.

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The video captured in Viet Nam on May 03, 2019.

The Ede long house is 42.5 meters long and 6 meters wide and sits on one meter high stilts. It was reconstructed at Viet Nam in 2000 by 16 Ede Kpa people in two and a half months. It was originally built in 1967 and belonged to Mrs. HDiah Eban's family in Ky village, Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands.

The house is oriented in a north-south direction according to Ede tradition. The north side is the front with the main entrance. The south end was where families lived. As a house of a powerful family, it was built with big columns and beams, on which many decorations were carefully carved. Its original Staircase, over one meter wide, was carved from one large wooden board. Traditionally, extended matrilineal families lived in long houses.

The more people who lived in a house, the longer it was. Some houses were zoom long. In the 1970s, there were still houses som to bom in length Since the 1980s, extended families have split into nuclear ones that live in smaller houses.

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