Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Hmong village

Young girls in an Hmong village on the way from Phonesavan to Vieng Kham. The smalt village where I captured this photo is located within the Longxan district and is approximately 250 km northwest of Vientiane. It has a population of 2,939 with 517 households made up of 75% ethnic Hmong,

This lorry mostly is used as a human transporter to bring the villagers to the far away fields. The garage planking - it seems - has got measured out from the transporter.

Not in Hmong society only but in many others too: The elder brother or sister takes care the younger.

Glutinous rice is the main rice eaten in Laos. The rice is is called kao neaw "kao" means rice, and "neaw" means sticky. It is cooked by soaking for several hours and then steaming in a bamboo pot.

My wife shows the result of the captured picture immediately after the shoot, this is a great benefit of the digital system in making photographs and makes the people more relaxed for taking pictures of them.

The Hmong have an own home-page and its worth to visit them in Internet: www.hmongnet.org

Hard to have a conversation with the Hmongs they speak an own language and it isn't similar to Thai or Lao.

First we came in the village nobody of the villagers came out the houses, too shy to meet us and start a conversation. But after a short while the situation has changed entirely and we were life and soul of the village.

Simple cottage to store the harvest equipment. It also gives a cool place for the lunch break.

The Villagers dry rice before to thresh.

This Hmongs live simple and the village seems clean and ordinary.

Most Hmong people fled out of Laos because significant number of Hmong fought against the communist-nationalist Pathet Lao during the Secret War. When the Pathet Lao took over the government in 1975, Hmong were singled out for retribution, and tens of thousands fled to Thailand for political asylum. This visit in a village made me sure that the situation has changed and Hmongs can have a save existence better in Laos than in Thailand.