Akha women with a silver headdress and teeth blackened by betel nut juice; Paudaung woman with a neck elongated by copper coils; Hmong woman with ear lobes stretched by oversized earrings.

The Akha wear a headdress of dangling beads and silver money. The originally hail from Tibet and the practice animism and ancestor worship.

We came to the village without any accommodation options. We occupied a hut in the village center. As the only tourists around, we attracted a lot of passerby's.

The tribespeople let their hair down but didn't remove their neck rings.