No.4 Guest House Tak

736 Indharakiri Road, Maesot Tak, Thailand

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My Home Away from Home

A travel blog entry by brittanyjoelle

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... br> But the thing about Baan Unrak is that the kids don’t act or look
like orphans, they are loved unconditionally. They have 140 brothers
and sisters at the home, countless volunteers who are like mentors and
of course the Didis and care mothers who love them like parents. They
are a family, and being a volunteer and allowing myself to get involved
in this story made me part of the family, part ...

Welcome to Tak!

A travel blog entry by yearinthailand

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... t our host. Her daughter is about 10 and was very pleased to have someone to play badminton with. Then we were paid a visit by Joe. One of the first Project Trust volunteers in Tak who was visiting while on a holiday in Thailand. We ate lunch with him and talked. It was so strange to be in Tak and we really appreciated seeing him. Later Pee Neng took us to the school and Joe tagged along. We waited for our actuall hosts to come and pick us up. Meanwhile we met Gao ...

Welcome back to Oni's travel stories.......

A travel blog entry by oniburger

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... rain puddles, motor squealing, passing UN trucks and refugee clinics….yes I was back on the Thai-Burma border in the frontier town of Mae Sot. It really is an Asian version of a Wild West movie. Thailand is already a country of extremes, where most things go; where you can smoke and drink next to the pumps in a "bar” that is a Shell petrol station by day. Where there seemingly is lil law but so much tradition and custom. Yet on the border all these things ...

Chiang Mai Cooking School

A travel blog entry by rrosenthal

... Thai cuisine, with a special emphasis on the northern Lanna style. "Lum tair tair" is the word for 'delicious' in the northern Thai dialect. Mar 5: Chiang Mai is a moated city with the impressive backdrop of the Doi Suthep mountain peak. Near the summit is a famous temple - Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. We will visit the temple and Tribal Museum, which gives you a very good introduction to the cultures and customs of the hill tribe people of northern ...

The refugees of Mae Sot

A travel blog entry by john_anita

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... because many of the locals were Burmese, or Burmese influenced, the foods were different and interesting (a change I needed, not because I didn't like Thai food but for variety that I missed). Also, the Burmese were very friendly and sweet as well, from our limited exposure. We found out that the women have painted faces, almost like zinc over their cheeks, to protect themselves from the sun, and someone also told us it's to distinguish them as ...