Myanmar Travel Information

A tribe of the Rawang people who live around the conjunction of Burma. India. and China. There are only about 20-30.000 Rawang. They have long been primarily hunters and gatherers. but nowadays they also grow rice. serve as porters. and mine for gold and jade. The men mostly had a twig or thorn in the […]

Rakhines reside in western Rakhine coast. they are closely related to Burmese proper. though their form of Burmese language varies from the language of the Ayeyawady Valley. notably in the retention of the ‘R’sound which in Burmese proper has been replaced by ‘Y’. By religion they are Buddhists. Total populations over 2 million and Sittway […]

The Palaungs. who mainly live in the Kalaw area in Shan State. belong to the Mon-Khmer stock. It takes about two to four hours through the hills to the village of the Palaung tribe. At first a steep track leads down into a narrow valley where the Palaung cultivate cheroot. tea. damsons and mangoes on […]

The Pao people are one of the ethnic minority groups in Shan State with a population of 60.000. The Christian population among Pao people is less than 1% as they are deeply rooted in Buddhism. They have the New Testament in their own language translated by the missionary in 1961. There is the real need […]

Naga are known to be ascended from Tibet-Myanmar ethnic races. They usually live in the northern part of Myanmar near the India-Myanmar border. To be exact. they mostly live in the valley regions of Patkwai. They can also be found in Khantee. Lashee. Lahel and Nanyun of Sagain Township. There are about 64 races of […]

Myanmar is a union of 135 ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects. The major races are the Kachin. the Kayah. the Kayin. the Chin. the Mon. the Bamar. the Rakhine. and the Shan. The name Myanmar embraces all the ethnic groups. Composition of the Different Ethnic Groups under the 8 Major National Ethnic […]

The Mons are the principal Burma branch of the Mon-Khmer. Mon Burmar. Pao . Rakhine. Chin. Kachin. Shan and Kayin inhabit the Mon state. In 1983 the population was about 1637.200 and in 1996 the population was 2.4 million. Majority of the inhabitant are Mons and Bamars. Mon state has borders with the Bago division […]

Maingtha ethnic tribes are known as the Achang or the Nga Ang. They live in Myanmar and China. The population of the Maingtha tribe is about 27.000. In China. they inhabit in the Yunnan Province. Their native language is known as Achang language. Sometimes. they use Chinese characters in writing. They live the northern Shan […]

The Lisu people are an ethnic group who inhabit in Myanmar. China. Thailand. and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. They are also known as Yawyin or. in a few places Yobin. However. this is a derogatory term meaning ‘savage’ used by the Kachin of the Lisu; and was used by the Chinese of the […]

Lashi (La Chid)