Huay Pu Keng, a rural Kayan village at the border with Myanmar, has something special waiting for you. Something that you might not expect.
In the imagination of most responsible travellers, the long-neck women are immediately associated with the stigma of tourism exploitation, and therefore thought of as something that we, as ethical visitors, must stay away from.
Although this image still represents the current reality in many villages, Huay Pu Keng is different because of the ground-breaking and successful experiment its inhabitants began a few years ago, which we hope can be replicated in villages in Thailand’s other provinces too.