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More than 15,000 tourists arrive every year to this unique ‘people Zoo’ for photographing a group for ethnic Kayan women, known as ‘Female giraffe’ or Pandaung, Burmese name they hate.

Sitting with their huts they exhibit their long necks covered in bronze rings exposing to the curiosity of the visitors who captured images with their cameras.

The Kayan women, proud of their ethnic group and its culture, escaped in the 1990s for his native Burma when his people failed in an attempt to secede. They fled to Thailand and there settled with the consent of the authorities that allowed the refugee group a small commercial activity consisting in the sale of small crafts.

Very soon, the interest caused by the thick collars used to stretch their necks, attracted hundreds of tourists started to arrive from all parts of the world, which the tour operators took advantage and exploited as tourist attraction. An attraction that enslaved them for over twenty years. Read the rest of this entry »

Thailand is undoubtedly one of the best destination for family vacations. However, we can easily make a series of errors in planning our trip to Thailand. There are so many places in Thailand where you can find accommodation and move around keep the building as a base to go. Most of us love living in a place that has the breath taking scenic views that relax our tired mind and body. When we want to plan our trip, most of us get to the Internet and start to make our searches on the best places in Thailand. We review the photos posted online and try to make our decision based on information and images we crawl the web.

One of the mistakes we can possibly do here is to treat all tourist destinations in Thailand like. From the reviews we read, all of them sound great and pictures also vouch for the same. Read the rest of this entry »