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Kong-Kam, 20, only moved into her own love hut one month ago after failing to find a boyfriend while living in her parents’ house.

She is a member of the Kreung Tribe, a minority people, who live in the remote jungle province of Ratanakiri, NE Cambodia. When Kreung girls reach their teens their parents build them their own houses where boys can come to stay the night with them. The Kreung believe this is the best way for girls to find true love.

Like most Kreung she believes in spirits, but she is particularly nervous of them and didn’t want to live alone. Eventually, after her younger sister got married following a love hut romance, she decided that she would have to move into a love hut if she was to have any chance of finding a boyfriend.

“I didn’t want to be living on my own because I was scared of ghosts. But I know this is the best way to find a husband. When I was living in the big house the boys didn’t come to see me as often as they do now, because they were too shy to meet my parents so I couldn’t get to know any of them properly. Maybe I would have met someone special before this if I had had my own house earlier,” she says.