Akha children, living in the mountains of Northern Thailand have always made use of local materials in their games. Now they have adapted modern materials: rubber bands, mortobike tires, water bottles ...

The Akha are one of the six hill tribes in the mountainous regions of Northern Thailand. The hill tribes (chao khao, literally ‘mountain people’) are considered non-Thai by the Thai authorities, and ...

Like the other hill tribes in Thailand, the Akha can be distinguished by their clothing and jewelry. Men generally wear loose trousers, a white vest, and a blue jacket. Akha women traditionally wear a ...

For over a thousand years the Akha people have inhabited the hills of Asia mainly Southern China Burma and Northern Thailand The Akha Way or Akhazaunh is the code by which they live This ...

One of them was used by Archawin Mopoaku, an ethnic Akha ... mystical power in Thailand. There has long been a shrine to Nang Non, next to the cave entrance, where people could make offerings ...