A Trek Amongst the Hill Tribes

I went on a 4 days Trek in the mountains between Chiang Mai and Myanmar (Burma).

We walked between the villages, but also went on an elephant ride the second morning to join the next village, and the last day we finished our trek using bamboo rafts.

The inhabitants are known as the hill tribes, most of the villages we crossed were Karen villages.

The Karen form by far the largest hill tribe group in Thailand with a population of about 500 000, having begun to arrive here from Burma and China in the seventeenth century.

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Bamboo




Their houses are built on stills and made of bamboo or teak.



Main street.


The Karen traditionally practise a system of rotating cultivation.


Unmarried Karen girl wear lose white dresses.


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Their houses, very similar to those of lowland Thais, are small as they do not
live in extended family groups.


Chilli skewer. Hot Hot!

Bamboo (solely) bridge.

Forest made boats.

Last day, going down the river peacefully on our bamboo raft.