After a car trip of two hours and another 2 hours walking over one hill top I finally reached the place Hoyin. It consist of 4 small villages where you will find animists, Buddhists and Christians. They live in peace and wear all this wonderful Gaung Saung. They start wearing it at the age of…
Message from Myanmar to subscribers
As I have told you before the communication and internet possibilities in Myanmar are quite difficult. In most places in the country there is only a very slow or no internet at all. Besides this the way software as WordPress can be used is difficult (WordPress is the software for my blog). Anyhow I will…
Feb 10 Akha’s famous head dress
The Akha tribe is well known for their head dress in Burmese called Gaung Saung. In this post you will see how it is put on because one of the ladies was so friendly to show it in detail.
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