Many settlements in Sarawak are strung out along the rivers, and even today are reached not by road, but by boat.
Take for example a fishing village we saw whilst on a river trip. The home of 700 souls, it now, we were told, has electricity. No running water yet; some pipes were installed after the last election, the villagers are hoping they might get water after the next. It has a kindergarten, and a primary school.
Oh, and it has a sports pitch. In the dry season it’s used for football. And in the wet season when the river floods? As the driver of our boat told us, it’s used for water polo: “…and the crocodile defends the goal”.
travelling frogs 
Wow, is that for real?!!!! They have their priorities right though, how important the games are (like the countless cricket matches played on the dusty grounds in India with makeshift pitches, stumps, bats etc etc)