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The Akha are arguably the most colourful and everyone's idea of what a hilltribe should look like. They are therefore the most well known minority by both the casual visitor and by academics looking for a PhD subject. The Akhazan-the way of life-is the guiding code to all Akha activities, from allocating land to how to conduct the ancestor ceremonies to building a house, it has the answer to how to do it the correct way. It is handed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next because there is no written language. A fun loving but hard working minority distributed from southern Yunnan, through Burma and Laos, to northern Thailand about 100 years ago, they are trying to adapt to modernization. There are numerous tours to Akha villages surrounding Chiang Mai.
