The Last Li Tribe—Bozha Village Li Ship-shaped Houses

⛰[Attraction Guide]
📍Address: Bozha Village, Jiangbian Township, Dongfang City, Hainan Province

🚗Transportation: About 60 km northwest of Dongfang City, about 76 minutes by car.

🕙Opening hours: All day

💰Ticket price: Free

🌟Highlights: Bozha Village is known as "the last spiritual home of the Li people". Legend has it that when the ancestors of the Li people landed on Hainan Island by wooden boat, they had no place to live, so they turned the wooden boat upside down to live in. To commemorate their ancestors, later generations of the Li people built thatched houses modeled after the shape of boats. The ship-shaped houses are built with mud and straw walls and thatched roofs. The thick thatch extends all the way to the ground, like an upside-down boat, hence the name "ship-shaped house". In 2008, the Li ship-shaped house construction technique was listed in the second batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage List and was hailed as a "living fossil" of traditional houses of Chinese ethnic minorities. On November 24, 2015, the ship-shaped houses in Bozha Village were listed as the 8th batch of cultural relics protection units in Hainan Province. In March 2021, it was nominated for the "World Double Heritage Declaration" of Hainan Tropical Rainforest and Li Traditional Settlements. In December 2023, the Li ship-shaped house ancient village in Jiangbian Township, Dongfang City was designated as a "Three-Coconut-Level Rural Tourism Spot in Hainan Province".

📌Tips: After getting off Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Tourist Highway, there is a parking lot. You need to park here and take a shuttle bus in. Round-trip tickets are 15 CNY/person for adults. Or you can walk in. It is 200 m to New Bozha Village and 1.7 km to the ship-shaped houses in Old Bozha Village.

Post by AbigailClark | Feb 22, 2025