Foggy day in an Akha village, Maw La Akha in Chiang Rai province. Akha woman carries chopped banana tree trunks to feed pigs. The Akha are one of the most distinctive and colourful dressed of the hilltribes that live in the mountainous border areas of Thailand, Burma, Laos and Southern China. Of Tibetan origin, they build their villages of stilted houses on the middle slopes of the forest hills..