A New Human Zoo?
Posted by Jaxon on May 22nd, 2008
Well, here’s a negative side of Thai tourism that many do not like to see:
Excerpts from the article from www.news.com.au today:
THAI provincial officials have allowed a new “human zoo” featuring long-necked or “giraffe” women to open near Bangkok despite mounting international criticism of the tourism practice, media reports said.
They are called the Padung or long-necked Karen in Thailand, but they consider those terms denigrating and call themselves Kayan.
Seven Kayan villages are already marketed as tourist attractions in Thailand’s northern provinces of Mae Hong Son and Chiang Mai.
But for the first time, a new “village” of Kayans was recently opened in Sattahip in Chonburi province, 100km south-east of Bangkok and a few kilometres from the Pattaya beach resort, the Daily XPress newspaper said.
Read more here:
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,23739459-5014090,00.html