VOLUNTEERING (3 Days) in Tsunami-hit Andaman Villages
(Accessible from any hotel in Phuket)
CODE: TVL003 |
Note: this is an example, and can be tailormade to your interests, longer or shorter, or change of activities |
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Phuket or Khao Lak – Ban Talay Nok - Khao Lak or Phuket |
Enjoy an intense but rewarding day in a breathtaking coastal fishing village overlooking the Andaman Sea. Ban Talae Nok is a delightful village with a way of life unchanged until electricity came to the village in 1990. Eventually they saw the first Westerner too. After the tsunami, the village embraced sustainable tourism and handicraft production as forms of alterative income, and has come to value the importance of preserving their natural environment through waste management and mangrove reforestation projects. Everyone has something to offer and no specific skill set is required. Activities include teaching English; helping out at the school; mangrove reforestation; sharing your skills or hobby with villager; habitat rehabilitation; beach clearance and waste management, teaching community aerobics, yoga, or your hobby.
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English teaching local school; Are you ready to fall in love with 50 kids? Clean beaches |
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| Day 1: Phuket or Khao Lak – Ban Talae Nok – English Teaching in Rural Coastal Fishing Village – Overnight Local Village |
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Transfer from Phuket (3.5 hours) or Khao Lak (2.0 hours) to the village. You will meet your host family at whose house you will stay the evening, then visit the pre-Tsunami site of the village and learn the story from your guide. You’ll feast on a traditional lunch with your host family that could include yellow curry with fish, vegetable soup, chicken curry with coconut milk, sticky rice with coconut milk, and Thai custard. After a brief introduction, your guide – along with local villagers – will introduce you to the school or community centre where you will prepare English learning activities. You will spend the next two hours teaching English through fun and games with the children. Not only will you be able to help village kids at school learning conversational English, but also your host family and members of the village handicraft cooperative. The ability to communicate in English is a vital skill for Thais, especially those wanting to engage in successful tourism, guiding, or running a general business. After dinner, you can practice English (or Thai!) with your host family.
Dinner with your host family, and overnight in their house.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accom: Homestay with local family
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Mangrove forestry; meeting local kids teaching; village accommodation is safe & clean, but simple |
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| Day 2 Local Village – Choices of Activity – Bar BQ dinner on Beach – Overnight Local Village |
After a local breakfast at your homestay, you may choose either to work on one of the below listed village projects (or two if you like), or you may choose another activity such as learning to cook local food! Possibilities include:
- Mangrove Planting Project: The rich biodiversity of the mangrove system is essential for healthy sea life. You can help to preserve the environment by working to plan t mangroves.
- Teaching: English teaching is always needed at school
- Beach Clean-up: Work with local people to clean up the beaches.
- Hiking / Trekking: Trek lovely nature trails through the jungle to viewpoints overlooking the Andaman Sea
- Batik Cloth Creation with Batik Cooperative: Help out these ladies who began making soap after the tsunami. The soap products make great souvenirs
- Village Women’s Union Soap Cooperative: Work with local people to clean up the beaches.
- Nipa Palm Roof Weaving: Until recently all houses here were roofed with woven natural fibers and grasses. Learn how this art continues, and try it yourself.
- Visit the Wildlife Rescue Center in village: learn about the story of abandoned gibbons
In the evening, enjoy a barbeque dinner on the beach and then relax by the beach and watch the sun setting into the beautiful Andaman Sea!
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accom: Homestay with local family
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| Day 3 Local Village – Choices of Activity – Return to Khao Lak or Phuket |
| After a local breakfast at your homestay, spend the morning in one of the above activities with villagers. After lunch say our goodbyes with villagers we have met, and return to Phuket or Khao Lak area.
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Note : donations are gratefully accepted, but please note a donation of 20% of the trip cost is already built into your tour costs. But if you wish to donate more, you can. Any donation will be gratefully received and will be used in community development projects in the village. Be sure to provide your guide with contact details so that we can issue an official letter of thanks, and contact info allowing you to follow up.
Tariff
Tariff: in Thai Baht per person based in homestay situation and subject to North by North East ‘General Conditions and Booking Procedures’. This quote based on Dec 2008 market rates. While we make every effort to honour above pricing, North by North-East Travel Services reserves the right to adjust prices if quickly-rising fuel costs force service-providers to collectively raise rates.
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Volunteering (3 Days) in Tsunami-hit Andaman Villages
CODE:
TVL003
Tariff: Based on Thai BAHT
CONVERT to currency of your choice.
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Prices per person in Thai Baht / Sharing Room basis in group of |
2 |
3 |
4-5 |
6-8 |
320 Dec 08 – 30 Sep 09 |
10,180 |
8,440 |
6,730 |
5,110 |
** Supplement Charge for transfers from / to Phuket: THB 3,960 / vehicle |
Validity: Price is effective from December 16, 2008 to September 30, 2009.
Price includes:
- Private Transfers to / from your hotel,
- boat and local transport as per program,
- meals as listed,
- English-speaking guide service,
- Insurance
Price does not include:
- Meals not listed in the itinerary
- Tips
- Donations other than that mentioned above
- Items not listed in the itinerary or of a personal nature
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