At Suvarnabhoomi Airport
The mystery of traveling to an unknown destination is like learning a new language. One reads numerous dictionaries, books and even "Learning Languages for Dummies". After mastering a few short sentences, you locate a native speaker to practice speaking and start parroting your rehearsed lines. As your sparring partner stares blankly at your monologue, you do not know how your accents have turned out to be and if what you said was what was understood or whether you made a complete fool of yourself by mispronouncing niceties as insults! The long neck kayan tribals, whose women wear brass rings on the neck from childhood so that their necks resemble necks of peacocks! One has just returned after spending a week staying at the simple residence of a long neck kayan family inside the dense jungles that are interspread over the Thai-Burmese border at Mae Hong Son province in northwest Thailand. The pictures that follow reads straight out of "Ripley's Believe it or Not"