What do folks who, despite all the good and the scourge of civilization, want to live in security and preserve their customs and traditions? First of all, they need to move from places that are called “hot spots” to more peaceful and tranquil land, where there will be nobody to bother you. And this is when you have to look for some sources of income. One of the countries where migrants tend to move in this case is surely-Thailand.

In the mountains of northern Thailand’s people live without having a need to pay to much for it. This may seem strange, but actually to the Thais, they have no relation with those, although their group is quite a lot. This is mainly those who could not fit into a normal modern life, mainly at homes. Thailand is bordered by  very complicated countries – Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Laos. The cruel war on their territories in the XX century uprooted thousands of ethnic minorities. This occurred for various reasons: some do not support those who followed other bet than a government or leader, and others all wanted to get their own state.One way or another, but the resettlement of mountain people from the hills and neighborhoods of the Himalayas in the north of the Thai took place with varying degrees of intensity during almost  entire XX century.

Mongi, Men, Karen, Lahu – this is not a complete list of people who came here for a better life.Let these nations can not find a place in the modern world, but the bread, or rather on the existence of which is usually called traditional, means quite enough. These people have made their settlements in the unique open-air museums. And the more they are almost not interested in anything. No, of course, they very least engaged in agriculture, but only to the extent to which it is necessary to preserve for the public’s ancestral ways of farming. The main source of finance is not the point of their activity.

There are tens of thousands of tourists in Thailand who want to see with their own eyes the practical life of the primitive mountain people. That specific tourists pay today for the meager life of these peoples. Supporting it in the form in which it can exist for hundreds of years without any visible changes, and to the mutual satisfaction of both sides.

Although there is a cultivation that mountain people are happy to grow and sell it gaining a large profit. It is the opium poppy. However, it is prohibited by Thai law, but in the remote jungles check its performance is sometimes very, very difficult.

This is a typical village of Mongo in the vicinity of Chiang Mai. To get here, you just have to pay a travel agency. Here you can freely roam the mountain slopes and terraces, watching the life of local people. Mongi  are very hospitable. So you can safely, naturally, asking permission to come to their house to get acquainted more with everyday life of the family. However, it is fraught with some consequences. According to the laws of hospitality the head of the family  have to treat you with everything possible. What it would it will be is rather  difficult to predict, but the fact that your stomach  will cope with it   without consequences. The offer can not be denied.

In these villages there is no formal religion as the  shamanism rules here. Religions such people are usually a special mix of animism – a belief in spirits, Buddhism, Christianity, sometimes, ancestor worship – in short, all that over the centuries of its complicated history of these people absorbed in their contacts with various countries, peoples and cultures. It is believed that the bridge damage or something like that too uppity tourists to local sorcerers is not exactly easy. However, for this they should both be angry. So in any case should behave respectfully and correctly.

Generally, the Mongo house is a large wooden or reed monospace construction with minimal conditional partitions inside. They are separated from the parents’ bedroom bedrooms other family members. In the middle of a fireplace at home or, more simply, fireplace. Here, cook and here basking cold mountain nights. The edges of the walls are shelves and benches. The situation, frankly, Spartan. In general, as saying the classics, “wild people – children of the mountains.