Akha Swing | Thanksgiving Day 07

Last year was ideal for the swing.

How they got me on the swing I will never know!

A typical overcrowded utility truck, on the way back into the City.

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Chiang Mai City Akha Harvest festival

The young ladies of Kampangdin sing an Akha song
(and not so young, my wife is at the back somewere out of sight)

Thanks to the rain the traditional Akha swing did not get a lot of use this year

Akha Thanksgiving Day 2008

Thanksgiving day 2008 Sansai, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Held for the City Akha at the local Akha Presbyterian Church Sansai, Chiang Mai.

Akha woman in traditional costume.

Abor
Abor is endearing name for an older man.

The Akha Harvest festival

The City Akha Give thanks for another bountiful Harvest.

Traditionally the Akha hold the Harvest Festival after the harvest of the rice crop.

The City Akha buy the rice from the local market but still hold "Thanksgiving Day"

to celebrate a bountiful year.

Char Puoo

Please don't quote me on the Akha words, I have written as they sound to me.
My Akha wife , who is 48 this year can not read or write Akha, Thai or English.
Some times we even talk at cross purposes. i.e. She hasn't a clue what I am talking about and visa versa. But we get by remarkably well. Her English is O.K. My Thai is limited and my Akha even more so.

Grant

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