Padaung
From Wikitravel
Padaung is a tribe of Black Karen-people in Shan State and North Thailand.
[edit] Regions
Padaung had 15 clans or sub-tribes. Only women from few clans are giraffe women.
[edit] Cities
Place by giraffe women. Note they often travel after the tourists and traditional take part in the water festival.
[edit] Burma
- Daw Kay by Inle Lake less teen giraffe women
- Ywama village in Inle Lake less teen giraffe women
- Mai Sai by Tachileik less twenty giraffe women
[edit] Thailand
- Long Neck Village (Huay Pu Keng) by Mae Hong Son several hundreds giraffe women
- A village by Chiang Mai about thirty giraffe women
- A village by Chiang Rai less twenty giraffe women
[edit] Giraffe women
The popular ideas about Giraffe women are long from the really.
| Popular ideas | The really and facts |
| They are barbarian. | No they a culture people, but conservative and strange. |
| The women are the world most oppressed women. | No, the women have a high status, and the higher status of the women, the more they use neck coils. As in the matriarchal clan, most of the women use neck coils. |
| If a woman remove the coil her neck break. | No, they have need to remove the coil when they been old or ill or take a break. |
| Only few been more than 30 years old, because the damage from the neck lengthening. | No. They been older than other people in less developed country, because they have access to medicinal plants. |
