Thursday, May 21, 2009

Karen Hilltribeswoman


Karen Hilltribeswoman, originally uploaded by HellonEarth2006.

The north of Thailand is home to the hill tribes - people who originate from Burma (Myanmar) or China originally. This lady is one of the Karen tribe. There are different Karen tribes such as the "long necks" as were earlier featured in this blog. She was on a visit to the "big city" of Chiang Rai at the time, which is were a lot of the Karen go to sell their vegetables although she seemed to be interested in purchasing some cloth.

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