The Akha Swing Festival @ Chiang Rai
The festival will held at the end of the hard weeding work on the rice and is a time of celebration for all, which the Akha say that they came down from God through the swing. The swing is built by an elder called a Dzoeuh Mah, which a village does not have this elder can not build a regular swing or gate. The swing is used for four days, then the braided vine rope is wrapped around one of the four very long legs and the swing is left there till it is rebuilt the next year. Swinging on an Akha swing is fast and takes one very high, an old rope is not safe.