Grouping an average of 200 to 700 people, the Khmer Loeu village is established in a clearing reclaimed from the forest.

As for the Jarai, it consists of very long houses on stilts, oriented along a north-south axis.

However, tribes of Mon-Khmer origin usually build their village according to a circular plan: 20 or 30 huts facing a communal house placed in the center of the village.

Previously, all villages were fortified with sharp bamboo hedges, the entrances protected by long corridor-gates and the surroundings trapped with bamboo spikes, sometimes poisoned.

Near the village is the water source where people go twice a day to fetch water or bathe: it is the most convivial place of all.