This Week In Travel Podcast & Thai Hilltribe Treks

Visiting a Karen Tribe in northern Thailand Last weekend, I read “ A Village, Or A Zoo? ” the Washington Post travel section’s cover story about the author’s experience trekking through the hills of northern Thailand, visiting various ethnic tribes.  The main draw was the same as it was for me and just about every other backpacker visiting Chiang Mai – the Karen Tribe who use metal rings to push their collarbones down and give the impression of extended necks.  Such exotic cultural norms seem

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