Long Neck Padaung women

This is not numerous tribe of Thailand tourists usually as "long-necked Karen» (long-neck Karens). Long Neck Padaung women, who became one of the hits of northern Thailand, is an ancient tradition of the tribe. They say that the iron wire that pulls the whole day of the neck, wrists and ankles of local women, was designed to limit their opportunity to get away from her husband in a neighboring village. Over the history of flight stopped, and tradition has remained - that today in the highland villages Padaung in Thai province of Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son can be seen how the men in the morning wind on the neck of his daughters kilogram wire hoops. Here tourists can buy and wire itself - as a souvenir.