Heho, Myanmar (Burma)

Heho is a city in Shan State, Myanmar.. Five neighboring villages host a rotating market in this part of the Shan State. The market was being held in Heho on the day I left Nyaungshwe, so that's where I went. It was colourful of course but it would have been more exotic had these people not lost the custom of wearing their traditional costumes. In this area, the people are mostly Shan (Tai), Burman, Palaung (Bulang) or Pa'o (Karen). It's hard to tell, just from her appearance, what group this girl driving her bullocks, could belong to. I would wager however, that the novice and girl below were Shan... These young men in the buffalo market were Burman, I know because I asked them. And so was the boy wearing a longyi on the left below. The Pa'o or white Karen are numerous in this part of the Shan State. These ladies selling chillies and the shopping couple on the left below, seemed proud to wear their Pa'o dress. The two ladies running a food stall on the right said they were Shan.