Part of this programme places your students in a local village for a night. This experience will allow students to experience how local communities live and what traditions and customs are important to the Thai people.
Subject Focus:
• KS 5: Learning about other cultures and lifestyles.
• KS 5: Enhance experience of working in a team during the trekking phase and gain skills in packing a rucksack, map reading and path finding.
• KS 5: Working alongside the host community with a charity organisation and engage with members of a local village.
Student Outcomes:
• Explore the forests of Thailand on elephant back.
• Study the impacts of tourism on the economy and the community.
• Gain an understanding of rural ways of life and contribute to the Thailand Volunteer Programme.
• Stay with a local family in a Thai village and learn of the agricultural system.
• Gain essential skills in becoming a responsible global citizen.
It makes a huge difference as a busy teacher to have people on the other end of the phone who always seem to be so helpful with solving the inevitable problems that arise in the organisation of such trips. 
