Floating bamboo houses keep this indigenous tribe safe in a typhoon Gab Mejia The floating homes of the Manobo tribe are able to withstand floods, typhoons and rising water levels The Manobo indigenous community in the Agusan Marshlands of the Philippines live in floating homes able to withstand floods, rising water levels and typhoons. The floating houses built to withstand …
The houses built to survive floods Gab Mejia Marites Babanto, an indigenous Manobo leader of Lake Panlabuhan, paddles her baroto – a traditional wooden canoe – through her floating community The Manobo indigenous people live and thrive on a vast wetland in the Philippines – despite dealing with dozens of storms and floods per year. Gab Mejia The floating houses …
