Stilted houses on reef, Sulu Archipelago


Of all the strange places that man finds to live in this world, these hamlets in the Sulu Sea, at the southern tip of the Philippines, are among the oddest. The Bajau Laut (sea-gypsies) make their homes literally at sea, on stilts above a submerged coral reef.


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Location: Philippines
Photo credit: © Michael Freeman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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