A unique B&B and a new museum are preserving the Tanka people’s sea-dwelling heritage
Just offshore from Xincun town in Lingshui Li Autonomous County, visitors board ferry boats with captain Li Yingyi, who shuttles them to a floating village where wooden houses rest on the waves.
Li, who began steering boats at the age of nine, now makes as many as 200 trips a day in peak season, carrying tourists eager to experience life on the water.
Many of the offshore homes, where the Tanka community lived for generations, now sit on floating rafts once used for aquaculture.
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