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Accommodation and food
You will be living on site in basic but comfortable home-stay same gender shared accommodation. Volunteers will eat together for every meal. e food is healthy and varied, with a bu et style breakfast, lunch and dinner with many di erent dishes to choose from. and vegetarian food is always available. All dietary restrictions are catered
to.
All About Your Volunteer Position:
Starting From:
Buriram We meet at Buriram Bus Station on Monday a ernoons at 2pm (where we join with the Bangkok group and travel together to the project by air con mini van or pick up)
For volunteers traveling from Bangkok, we o er a pick-up service from the Northern Mo Chit Bus Station at 7:30am on Monday morning, on the 3rd oor in front of the Dunkin Donuts (NOT the booth), for an additional fee of 500 THB.
Own travel to project: For volunteers already in NE ailand or travelling from Cambodia it can be more convenient to travel to Khun Chai Tong via Surin city bus station. Please contact our sta for more details if you plan on doing this as you will need to arrive at project on Monday no later than 3pm.
Return a er nishing at the project: Depending on where you want to return to you will either leave on Saturday evening or Sunday morning – Bangkok arrive around 3:00pm. Other forward transport can be arranged when you are at the project.
What is Included
Transport from Buriram bus station accommodation, to project and back, Clean, convenient accommodation on site, ree delicious meals per day, A practical education on the challenges facing elephant conservation, free t-shirt and reusable water bottle.
What to Bring: We suggest that you travel as lightly as possible. We recommend that you take the following:
Essential items: Flashlight, Earplugs, Alarm clock/watch, Basic First Aid kit, personal medication, Towel, personal toiletries, sunscreen, Insect repellant, ip ops, closed shoes, long sleeved shirts and trousers, extra socks.
Seasonal gear: (poncho/ waterproofs (Rainy season: June - October), warm clothing, long sleeves, sweat pants, jumper (Cold season: November - February; can get quite cold at night times).
Recommended but not essential: reading material, travel games, camera, small daypack, gardening gloves, wide brimmed hat- we can provide gloves and hats on site if you do not have these items.
Important Note about clothing: Please remember to pack clothes that are respectful to the local culture - t-shirts that cover your shoulders, shorts that come down to your knees - Nobikini´s, string vest tops or hot pants allowed. You will be asked to change if you are wearing any of these
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Surin Home Stay - Elephant Volunteer:

