Women with face tattoos in the mountains

Driving from Yangon (Myamar) to Kanpalat takes about 9 hours. Bad roads, full of sleeves, no less than the way to Dong Van and Meo Vac in our country.

Women with face tattoos in the mountains

The tattoos on the face have faded a lot over time, with tattoo marks of the letter B, trees and cryptic characters.

Again on a rainy day. We had to wait for day of the dead several hours for the flood water to recede in the underground tunnels before the car could pass.

The driver and the guest are both very patient, on the journey to find the past is still present on the faces of today… And the day I went down to the village, it was still raining, I went with a local, agile guide. speak English fluently and handle situations well. Thanks to that, we were able to approach characters who lived very closed, quiet and quiet lives.

The tattooed women

living in the villages in the remote hills of Chin state this year are all over 60 years old.

It is said that the custom of tattooing dates back to ancient times so that women would not deteriorate from being enslaved by a king who wanted to be lustful and to let people in the tribe recognize each skull ornament other if abducted by another tribe. Later, the custom of face tattooing was abolished by the Myanmar government in 1960. As a result, women with face tattoos that remain as a cultural symbol are gradually disappearing… In fact, they are almost illiterate. . Some Chin people are Buddhist and the majority are Catholic, and there is also a small church in Kanpalat.