Giraffe women

Giraffe Women

The country of "Giraffes women" (also known as Padaung) is Burma but originaly they would have come from Yunnan in China or from Tibet. From the age of 4 the women of the Karen tribe places a ring around her neck every year. From the age of 14 to 30 the coils are added every three years. Gradually the length of the coil and weight presses the clavicle and the rib cage, which results in appearance of a long neck. However, the neck doesn’t realy extend. Otherwise at the age of 100 the old Karen woman would look like that...










Karen villages are already marketed as tourist attractions in Thailand's northern provinces, where there is a sizeable population of Karen. The women, who had originally come from neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) to Thailand as refugees, were reportedly lured to a border camp where Thai businessmen created a village to serve as a tourist attraction, or "human zoo".