TONG LUANG - ECO AGRICULTURAL HILL TRIBES VILLAGE...

TONG LUANG, not far from Chiang Mai, is a village where different mountain tribes live.

Created in 2003, this village aims to help the mountain tribes and to allow them a better life.
In fact, these tribes, which are gradually disappearing, are also aspiring to each other with more comfort, stability and security.

It is not a human zoo as one can (unfortunately) meet sometimes but the meeting of different tribes who live here agriculture, a little breeding and that produce here, especially women, textiles and clothing by a manual and ancestral weaving.

To each tribe it was given the land and the village is in fact a set of different villages where each tribe is autonomous and lives its culture in full freedom.

You will meet here the tribes Lahu, Paradong, long (Karen women giraffes), Yao, Akha, Mhong and white Karen.

The habitat is always traditional and does not incorporate any modernity, which these tribes simply aspire to be able to sell the product of their work and to be able to give a decent education to their children.

You can easily chat (provided you have a guide) with people who are always happy to share with those who are interested.

Every time we go there we are always happy to exchange and understand each time a little more all these cultures which each have a very distinct identity.

You will see the hand weaving and so beautiful, the blacksmith, the maker of crossbows (a real character... funny and the other, not to mention the children who spend their time fishing, having fun and laughing with us).

namely that the entrance fee is intended to finance the meals of the school to be able to give full access to the education of these children.

They are a quarantine who are transported every morning to the school of the nearby city.

For those who say (and I know there will be) that it is a tourist catch and a human zoo, I answer No... not because it is to do work of solidarity that to help these people and it is not by leaving them in their mountains, far from any , health and access to care, away from schools and far from the minimum comfort we help them but on the contrary precipitate their disappearance.

Thanks for them...

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