Tai O Village on Lantau Island | Hong Kong

Postcard

Tai O Village is home to the Tanka people, a community of fishermen who have built their houses on stilts above the tidal flats of Lantau Island for generations. These unusual structures are interconnected, forming a tightly-knit community that literally lives on the water.  

Stamps

The stamp on the left is part of a large set of definitives, issued 2014. Hong Kong is known as an international metropolis of skyscrapers. The stamps showing the countryside. This stamp is about the special features of Hong Kong’s Port Island.