Visiting the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand: Long Neck Karen close to Chiang Rai Thailand
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- In this Thailand Travel Vlog it's our third day in Chiang Rai!
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After driving so far yesterday, we decided to sleep in and stay close to home. After seeing so many tours say they stop by the 'Long Neck Karen Village', we decided to try to go on our own. The reviews were all over the place: some good, some bad, some said it looked like a zoo. We tried to google whether these villages were ethical or not and what we seemed to keep finding is that the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand are mostly all refugees that fled Myanmar due to the war/being prosecuted. As they aren't Thai citizens, they're not allowed to work legally. One of the ways that they can make money is by selling different crafts and items at these villages. If you go to visit a Long Neck Tribe or the other Hill Tribes, make sure you buy some souvenirs as opposed to walking around just taking pictures and videos without trying to support the tribes!
We chose to go to the closest village to Chiang Rai - about 25 minutes north of the clock tower. At first it seemed like a tourist trap where they were just trying to sell things, but it got better as you went through. It was also really interesting to see the different hill tribes outfits and characteristics.
After visiting the Hill Tribes, we stopped by a local restaurant for some Thai food! We then stopped by some local hot springs which were on the way back to Chiang Rai city.
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00:01 our plan for the day
00:21 driving to the Long Neck Karen village
00:53 the Hill Tribe Village entrance
01:33 the Hill Tribe Village parking lot
02:22 map of the different tribes
02:45 the Akha Tribe Village
03:12 different souvenirs
04:02 the Yao Tribe Village
05:21 the Kayaw Tribe Village
05:55 the Long Neck Karen Tribe Village
08:45 info about the Friends of the Hill Tribes Foundation
09:51 the different Northern Thai Hill Tribes
11:13 Leaving the Long Neck Karen Village
12:00 Thai food for lunch!
13:01 nice views driving to the hot springs
13:26 Pong Phra Bat Hot Springs
15:12 trying not to get sunburnt!
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I like that you have lived like the Thais..visiting places and stoping by some random restaurants and ordering our simple comfort food.
We've stopped by so many great little restaurants while traveling in Thailand! 😍
Hi.. I really enjoy watching your VDO clips and I hope there's no rain to spoil your journey like the previous day. The weather is getting colder and colder these days since winter is approaching so pl. take care of your health and have a nice journey and a happy stay in our country.
Thanks so much! The weather is much better now 😍 hopefully we can take some more trips outside of Bangkok soon! 😍
Natalie and Carles omg!! You guys look so bright and lively. I'm happy and enjoying watching your videos.😁😁
Aww thank you! 🥰🥰🥰
I went to the long neck Karen village long before tourism stepped in as part of the first excursion survey (1989) to the village. It looks totally different now.
😱 oh wow that’s so cool! I believe it would look very different after tourism and time has passed. Thanks for watching!
I like you travel around in thailand
Thank you!! 🥰🥰 we love traveling in Thailand!
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lol right?! We went to the Golden Triangle the day before this video and there was SO much rain! Then in this video we were getting sunburnt 🤣
Oh wow!! That was really interesting, but also a little creepy. Oh we love the wooden carved whistle and the fridge magnets❤
🎉🎉 glad you like them! Yessss it was a strange day 🤷♀️
Happy to see you guys enjoying your holiday in Thailand
Thank you! 🥰 Carles and I live in Bangkok! 😍
Chaing rai is beautiful province.👍
It really is!! 😍😍
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Thank you 🥰🥰🥰 we wish we could visit everywhere in Thailand! 😍
Great video. Have fun!
Thank you! 🥰
Love your vlog😍
Thank you!! 🥰
Have a good trip dears
Thanks so much! 🥰
Winter season in Thailand or ‘so-called’ starts 29-Oct-22.
We're excited for our first Thai winter! 😍 I'm sure it's MUCH better than winter back home!!
Hello! I am so proud of you and your husband, you are going to visit the Karen people, but did you know that the Karen people have a few different people? Some Karen people have long necks, me I’m Karen too but my mom isn’t Karen long neck 🥰 There I think you will experience a lot. I'm glad for you.
Thank you! 🥰 we actually didn’t know much about the hill tribes at all before coming here! It was cool to learn a little about the different tribes and see the differences between them. ❤️
Great video ♥
Thank youuu! 🥰
Thanks you 👏🙏
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Chicken fried rice with basil leaves is delicious. I luv it.
So do we!! 😍😍😍
Seawatde Ka Natale and Clare I like to watch you trip in Thailand your both look very good I like Natalee smile you look good
Aww thanks so much! 🥰🥰
Very good.
Thank you! 🥰
Nice clips I’ve ever seen.
Thanks so much! 🥰
We were there in 2008, we paid $500. Bath .But it was more long neck tribes that you really can see more of them works but ,when they take pictures with you ,and they’re exspecting some tips from you.😂😂. I knew the Burmese Gov; wanted them to go back to Myanmar ASAP .!
Oh wow so long ago! I’m sure they were also struggling after covid. We just tried to buy lots of little souvenirs from different people there. It was really interesting to learn about the different hill tribes!
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Thank you! 🥰
ท่องเที่ยวหมู่บ้านกะเหรี่ยงคอยาวที่ดีสุดต้อง จังหวัด แม่ฮ่องสอน ขอให้คุณมีความสุขในการท่องเที่ยวในประเทศไทย🙏🙏😊😊
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Your style look likes our style to take moto to everywhere we want to visit and never see
It’s the easiest way to travel!!! Get to a new city then rent a moto 🎉😍🤣
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Thank you! 🥰🥰
How long will you stay in Thailand? Hope you have a fun & nice trip.
Currently we’ll be here until the end of March which will be 16 months total 😱
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Greater than last time my wife's and I. We couldn't walked through.
Aww really?? Was it because of covid? That’s good to hear it’s better now!
Was it easy to ride a scooter to the village from chiang rai?
Yessss - the village is really close to the city.
Carles can eat Pad-Krapraw chicken all day all night LOL. Me too.
🤣🤣 he really can! Best Thai food ever?!? Lol ❤️
Nice 👍❤️
Thank you! 🥰
How crazy is this townhall?
🤣🤣🤣 I don’t know why it said it was crazy 🥴🙅♀️🤣
ขอบคุณมากๆที่ชอบเมืองไทยและชอบอาหารไทย ขอให้ปลอดภัยและเที่ยวให้สนุกนะครับ
Aww thank you! 🥰 we had so much fun in Chiang Rai!
@@NataliesPassport All the hill tribes in Thailand the village in this video show you how to solved so many problem not only erned money from people and tourists for their living but tourism It's very important for them even though you both knew it they didn't lived this village before.that's the village built up for give them had a chance to living by themselves.selling souvenirs and farming for their living I think only this skill they had a great job instead growing poppy like in the past.Yeah that you knew. It's hard time for them and everyone in the last few yrs.bcuz pandamic my guess.So that's why Tourism is very important for them and Thailand now.As you guys knew it for the other area at the north of TL. there're so many Royal project from the king's family very successful thousand of the projects can help so many tribes in Thailand.That's why all hill tripe they love the king Rama IX the great. you can see their product in 7-11 and all store over TL.in the name "Doi Kham" name that's all I can tell.
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It’s still so interesting to learn about the different tribes!
ยินดีตอนรับประเภทไทย ฉันรักพวกคุณเช่นกันเหมือนพวกคุณรักประเทศไทย (อ่านภาษาไทยได้ไหม)
🥰 thank you, we love you too! 😍 but no, we can’t read Thai 😭😭😭 we’ve been trying to learn more, but it’s so hard!!
@@NataliesPassport Yes, Thai is a very difficult language. Even some Thai people can't read Thai at all.
@@Etogo101 😱 really?! wow! We're glad it's not just us!!
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We did in our chiang rai day 2 video! 😍 the mountains in that area are amazing! 😍 we just got unlucky with the weather 🥺
อยากมีเพื่อนเป็นชาวอเมริกันจังเลยน่ารักดีครับ
Thank you! 🥰🥰 you can come hangout with us 😜❤️
Longneck .... Yes
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ชีวิตต้องปรับตัว การท่องเที่ยวก็เช่นกัน แปลกเราแต่คนอื่นอาจไม่แปลก ไม่ใช่ตัววัด
The actual village was strange, but it was cool to learn about the different hill tribes! Before visiting we didn't know anything about them 😱
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The real Akha Village is deep in the forest beyond normal people's reach.
I believe it!! It would be really cool to see!
Oil massage is great.
Massages are one of our favorite things in Thailand! 😍 sooo good!!
They actually live there but adapt tourist business.
Thanks for letting us know! It’s confusing as a tourist to know how the people actually feel about it 🥺
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Thank you! 🥰 it was a fun and very interesting day!!
I don’t get this touristy hill tribe village at all. For the long neck Karen it’s acceptable because they’re recently fled away from the conflicts in Myanmar and they have no citizenship. But for the Akha and the Yao(Mien) is like what the heck they’re doing there. Their migration to Thailand maybe recent but it was like more than 100 years ago. Shouldn’t they have the citizenship and everything already?
😭 I have no idea! It was all new to us so we liked being able to learn about the different tribes. But it is crazy to think how long some of them have lived here yet still aren’t citizens 😱
@@NataliesPassport Well, the Akha living there might’ve migrated later than the one living in Pa Hee and Pa Mee village. That’s why they didn’t granted citizenship yet then. Because there’s always new waves of refugees from Myanmar coming to Thailand especially in this time.
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Long-necked karens
Yesss - it was our first time seeing them! 😱
There're many new generation of karen has stopped their own culture to be city-citizen. It's gonna be good for their life in a long term.
So there're had less karen people in their old style. That's the reason why it's look like a fake things.
That makes sense! It will definitely be good for them!!
I answer like a local Thailand (ChiangMai). I disagree with this hill tribe model village. Because it's like bringing a human to a show like animal zoo. Sometimes a businessman who is for profit It came to be in the form of a foundation.
It did feel weird like that at times 😭 I’d like to hope that most of the money does go to helping the hill tribes, but we aren’t sure. Thanks for letting us know as a local!
Hope they quit this dangerous custom soon. It's very deliberating for Karen women. Because this is their choice and freedom on their own bodies. We respect that.
But in modern world, long neck custom can be a difficulty for education and migration. I know they want to go back to myanmar but Karen kids need education. Thai people want to offer more opportunity but they just need to be more adapted.
Yeah, I could see it holding them back. I just hope they’re still doing it as part of their culture and not that they have to for money from tourists! It was really interesting to learn about the different bill tribes though as that’s something we had no idea about!
I feel sad for how they do in this hill tribe villages. They should present differently. It looks like human zoo, very sad.
It could definitely be presented in a much better way than it is!
They're not Thai, they’re refugees from Burma. The Thai government only provides them with safety and support for a better life. The Thai government educates them and gives them an opportunity to profit off tourism and earn a living. They’re not treated as pets or animals.
The villages you visit are fake and neither is right nor wrong. Because it is like a center for various hill tribes in Thailand gathered in one place for people to travel and learn. The villages they actually live in are often in hard to reach and dangerous places. Most of them have no access to electricity and are difficult to travel. Because these tribes are immigrants from Burma and China. They were often on the tops of mountains and in the beginning were often in contact with thieves or transnational drug cartels. These tribes grew opium to sell to drug dealers in the Golden Triangle. After the reign of King Rama IX of Thailand took part in a project to improve the quality of life for the tribes, they turned to other economic crops and stopped growing opium. An example that people know in Thailand and are bringing to the global market by starting in Thailand to Japan is The coffee brand "Akha Ama" has a logo depicting an Akha tribal woman. The Akha hill tribe people get coffee beans from the king to plant and develop until they open a coffee shop. It started from Chiang Mai and then went to Japan.
The area where they lived next to the border was often fought in the old days. from internal affairs in Burma and various drug dealers. Often there were humanitarian organizations and missionaries from America who contacted them to help them. But actually accessing the village is still quite difficult.
The hill tribe villages in Thailand are scattered in the mountains along the northern and western borders of Thailand in many provinces.
Thanks so much for all the info!! We were hoping it wasn’t bad 😬 but that’s also good to know about the real villages being hidden in the hills!
@@NataliesPassport If you want to enter the villages of these hill tribes you will need to contact the local village leaders who are in contact with the tribes as guides. Or contact the organization that oversees the tribe or volunteer teachers and missionaries who deal with these hill tribes. Since the early refugees came, they came along natural paths, mostly on the hills. And in the 70-80s on these mountains, besides being the route of drug cartels It is also a battlefield of communist armed groups with Thai soldiers. Their villages are located in the provinces on the border of northern and western Thailand. In the Andaman Sea there is a tribe called the Moken people who call them the Gypsies of the Sea. In Southern Thailand there is another tribe called Sakai who live in the deep forests of Southern Thailand. To contact them only had to contact local leaders who had been in contact with these tribes.
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We always try to be really careful! 🤞🤞❤️
You should go to Phetchabun Province.
There’s a national park there that we want to go to! Hopefully soon 🤞😍
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