Ancestral routes

Clockwise from above: Hiria Ottino (third from left) and his five crew members are welcomed at Mawei harbor, Fujian province, after a 16,000-nautical-mile South Pacific voyage of 116 days. Koronui is an experienced sailor known as the "human GPS". Built according to an 1820 plan, Ottino's canoe is 15 meters long by seven meters wide, and weighs four tons. Zhu Xingxin / China Daily