Racha Villa Resort Tak
307/1 Phahonyothin, Muang Tak, Thailand
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My Home Away from Home
Wow it has been a while! So the last month has been a crazy mix of a few long plane rides a bunch of jet leg and more I will write in blogs to come re-capping Korea, my visit back to Canada for my sisters wedding, and my first couple weeks here in Auckland.
But for now I wanted to conclude my time in Thailand with an article I wrote for the Baan Unrak newsletter from the perspective of a volunteer. Baan Unrak was my home while ...
Tak, Slow Life in Thailand
After the return to Tak and the start of more serious classes (I was now teaching Math, Chemistry & Physics), things slowed down as the time for the recreational basically stopped. We cooked mostly at home and I would often fall asleep after getting back from hot, busy, full work days. The town itself really doesn't hold much to offer, and to any tourists passing through I would say there is next to no reason to ...
Not the city but the national parks west from it
... 1506;ה קצרה. משם במוני 14; עד לפארק לנג סן. התאכס 04;ו בבונג 00;וס והספר 91;ים צ'יק צ'ק התארג 04;ו לצאת. ...
Dengue Fever
After 20 months in Asia my luck ran out and I contracted Dengue Fever on 8 July.
If you have never had dengue fever (mosquito carried blood borne virus) I highly recommend against it. The headache is indescribeable.
They treated me as an outpatient on 8 July and told me to come back on 14. My platelet count fell from 133,000 ...
The journey begins
... and ensuring everybody gets a fair cut. 'We' are about trying to prepare the local communities for tourism and how to utilize it to their advantage and spread the benefits equally. 'We' are about helping local communities lift themselves out of poverty by making a livelihood, its cliché but its true of what we're doing out here "teach a fisherman how to fish for a day and he feeds himself for life". ...


