Austronesian Boat Sets Sail on Epic Voyage From Taiwan to Philippines
The 20-seat canoe was built by six Orchid Island communities and is carrying about 60 people on a 24-hour voyage, organizers said.
- On Monday, indigenous Tao rowers from Orchid Island, Taiwan, departed in a traditional wooden canoe for the Philippines' Batanes Islands, reviving a maritime route dormant for 300 years.
- Syaman Maraos, chairman of the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation, said the project aims to re-establish the sea route between Lanyu and Batanes, allowing shared languages and cultures to continue being passed on.
- Measuring 12 meters, the 'Golden Friendship' canoe carries 60 rowers in relays across the 185-kilometer Bashi Channel, supported by seven escort vessels providing logistical aid.
- "Nowadays we have modern vessels accompanying us and sailing together with us, so we are not afraid," said Hsieh Hsiu-hsiung, a diving instructor aboard the canoe.
- Upon arriving at the Batanes Islands, the crew plans cultural sharing activities; Maraos hopes Ivatan islanders will row the vessel back to Orchid Island next year to boost maritime culture.
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Indigenous Taiwanese paddle to the Philippines on long-lost route
A group of indigenous Taiwanese left on Monday (June 15) to paddle to the Philippines on a hand-built wooden canoe across the Bashi Channel, reviving a maritime route dormant for hundreds of years and re-establishing a lost cultural connection.
Indigenous Taiwanese reconnect lost maritime route to Philippines by canoe
ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan — A group of indigenous Taiwanese left on Monday to paddle to the Philippines on a hand-built wooden canoe across the Bashi Channel, reviving a maritime route dormant for hundreds of years and re-establishing a lost cultural connection.
Indigenous Taiwanese to paddle to Philippines reconnecting long-lost route
ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan: A group of indigenous Taiwanese left on Monday (June 15) to paddle to the Philippines on a hand-built wooden canoe across the Bashi Channel, reviving a maritime route dormant for hundreds of years and re-establishing a lost cultural connection.
Indigenous Taiwanese to paddle to the Philippines reconnecting long-lost route
ORCHID ISLAND, Taiwan, June 16 - A group of indigenous Taiwanese left on Monday to paddle to the Philippines on a hand-built wooden canoe across the Bashi Channel, reviving a maritime route dormant for hundreds of years and re-establishing a lost cultural connection. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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