This is the name given to travel in search of genuine and isolated ethnic groups. This tourist offer is not without controversy, since it has sparked a moral debate on a global level . The object of the seasoned tour operators who have launched this type of trips and their targets have been, for example, the Jarawa Indians of the Andaman Islands, which belong to India and are located in the Bay of Bengal.
During the past years, this ethnic group has suffered the harassment of thousands of tourists who indolently photographed their daily scenes , whether they were cooking, hunting or dancing, and who very often threw food at them to pose or repeat a certain action.
The indignity of the affair put certain NGOs that are still fighting against this human safari , which has a very crowded focus in western Thailand, in the Mae Hong Son province, where the famous giraffe women of the ethnic group live. Kayan, his neck lengthened by a succession of necklaces that actually crush the rib cage.
Another people victim of this tourism for many years are the Maasai , who live in Kenya and Tanzania, and the Mursi of Ethiopia, an African tribe that is located in Debub Omo and is famous for the dishes that its women insert into their lower lips. .
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