more of chiang mai, culture and extinction

and i thought i had bad teeth

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the whole village is imported from Birma ... and sort of live in an cultural amusement park ... a living museum ...

a strange white long neck

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with a real big nose ... anyway the rings don't prolong the neck, they pressure the shoulderbones down into the corso ...

finally a real one ...

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so her corpse is actually misformed ... sort of like bind chinese feet ... learned the rings started a few hundred years ago when their were many tiger attacks which bite at the neck ... so when the men went out hunting they wanted to protect their women

the sister ...

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of the mother ... is taking care of her little niece

and then it started to rain

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and i ended up by myself in the village surrounded by the long neck tribe ... with probably 1.5person speaking 3 words of english

finding shelter from the downpour

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... didn't help very much ...

shall i go ...

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or shall i not go check if the rain has past

the forever giant ...

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was walking very careful not to slip in the muddy clay ground

luv the thai outfits

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i've mentioned it before, however m doing it again ...

then had to drive back 1 hr

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and i made Joe mi tuktuk driver stop as i was getting drenched ... loads of visitors were also heading back into town ...

police motorcycle in the restaurant

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very normal ...

first bday picture

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a happy dragon with a guarding naga

never seen this before

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the temple to where i was staying right next to i visited on the morning of mi bday and noticed this sign ... and so i did ... respect mi bday and birthweek ...