You can see almost anything in the world if you pay enough. So I was startled when a well-respected trekking company in northern Thailand refused my request to travel to a nearby village of a tribe ...
When Pascal Khoo Thwe was a baby, his grandmother spat three times on his head while muttering tribal incantations to protect him “from evil people and all misfortune.” With all respect to the Padaung ...
FROM THE LAND OF GREEN GHOSTS: A Burmese Odyssey, by Pascal Khoo Thwe. London: Harper Collins, 2002, 304 pp., $24.95, (cloth). Toward the end of this captivating memoir the author confesses that while ...
The Padaung women start wearing brass coils around their necks at a very young age, increasing the number of rings as they get older. Yahoo Travel Last month, during my trip to Myanmar, I met a group ...
You can see almost anything in the world if you pay enough. So I was startled when a well-respected trekking company in northern Thailand refused my request to travel to a nearby village of a tribe ...
MAE HONG SON, Thailand - For the past two decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security as refugees in the hills of ...
Carved wooden figure, painted. Young woman, wearing long white tunic with red trim and black knee-length skirt. Gold bracelets covering her arms and ankles. Gold rings on her chest and on her neck up ...
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