Hill Tribes of Mae Hong Son 1

While in Mae Hong Son my family and I got to do something I had wanted to do since I arrived in Thailand. We went to visit some traditional hill tribe villages. Hill tribe people are not actually Thai. They live in the mountains of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. They are a distict group of people that typically only live in the mountains. Now they are gaining citizenship, if born in Thailand, and many are moving out of the villages. There are still many villages that function just as they traditionally always have. These people are very happy and choose to live this life style. This set of pictures is of a Meo village that builds their houses off of the ground on stilts. We got to sit and chat with a few of the women in this village. After that they sold us some of their handmade crafts. As is everything, this village is globalizing and developing. About 3 years ago this village got electricity for the first time.