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'The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives no the sea. Know as the "sea gypsies" or "sea nomads", they inhabit amazing villages built on stilts in the middle of the ocean.
Many Bajau people do not set foot on land except to trade fish and sea cucumber for rice and (ironically) water, build new boats, or bury the deceased. In fact, they some times report feeling"landsickness" when they do!
Even when the fragile driftwood settlements are decimated in the typhoon season, or ransacked by pirates, they just take their boats and start to build a new house.
These amazing people are so at home in the water that their bodies have physically adapted to it, giving them better under water vision and the ability to hold their breath for up to 5 minutes while free-diving for their dinner.'
What an amazing way to live.
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