Hill Tribes of Southeast Asia

The Akha Although there is some geographical overlap, broadly speaking, the Akha minority today principally occupy a strip of mountains separating the Hmong ethnic group to the east from the Karen in lands to the west. This includes Luang Nam Tha and Phongsaly provinces of far northern Laos, parts of Thailand’s Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai and southeastern Shan State…

A brief rundown on the history and origins of the Hmong and the regions of Southeast Asia they inhabit today

Hill-tribes in Southeast Asia. You’ll certainly have come across the term ‘hill-tribe’ in many of our Southeast Asia tour pages, or indeed those of most other operators running tours in the region, or, for that matter, in most of the relevant guidebooks you’ll find. It refers to the minority ethnic groups inhabiting the mountainous areas of northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Burma…