unburyingthelead: Now in her 50s, Ibu Diana Botutihe is one of the few remaining Bajau to have lived her entire life on a boat, visiting land only briefly in order to trade fish for rice, water and other staples. What makes Diana’s life at sea all the more remarkable is the fact that her traditional lepa-lepa boat measures just 5m long and 1.5m wide As one of the world’s last surviving sea nomads, Diana’s cramped boat is filled with the accoutrements of everyday living – jerry cans, blackened stockpots, plastic utensils, a kerosene lamp and a pair of pot plants. Malay people have lived at sea for centuries, plying a tract of ocean between the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia (link via @hungryghoast) unburyingthelead: Now in her 50s, Ibu Diana Botutihe is one of the few remaining Bajau to have lived her entire life on a boat, visiting land only briefly in order to trade fish for rice, water and other staples. What makes Diana’s life at sea all the more remarkable is the fact that her traditional lepa-lepa boat measures just 5m long and 1.5m wide As one of the world’s last surviving sea nomads, Diana’s cramped boat is filled with the accoutrements of everyday living – jerry cans, blackened stockpots, plastic utensils, a kerosene lamp and a pair of pot plants. Malay people have lived at sea for centuries, plying a tract of ocean between the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia (link via @hungryghoast)

unburyingthelead:

Now in her 50s, Ibu Diana Botutihe is one of the few remaining Bajau to have lived her entire life on a boat, visiting land only briefly in order to trade fish for rice, water and other staples. What makes Diana’s life at sea all the more remarkable is the fact that her traditional lepa-lepa boat measures just 5m long and 1.5m wide

As one of the world’s last surviving sea nomads, Diana’s cramped boat is filled with the accoutrements of everyday living – jerry cans, blackened stockpots, plastic utensils, a kerosene lamp and a pair of pot plants. Malay people have lived at sea for centuries, plying a tract of ocean between the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia

(link via @hungryghoast)

(Source: oversets, via beingindonesian)

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