Day 1: Meet the Thai Phuan people |
8.00 am |
Depart from Bangkok to Thai-Puan Community, Nakhon Nayok Province. |
10.00 am |
Arrive at the Thai Puan community gate at Fang Klong Temple, Koh Wai sub-district, Pak Pli district, Nakhon Nayok Province |
Warm welcome ceremony
- Receive a welcome cloth from the community members.
- Enjoy the drum show and thai dance from Pak-Phli kindergarten school.
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Depart to Fang Klong temple port. |
Welcome speech from Tourism Authority of Nakhon Nayok. |
Enjoy local music “short river but long history” from local musicians. |
Short break with banana and Fang Klong Temple’s iconic pandan salted eggs. |
10.45 am |
Visit Chalerm Ratchawat Fang Klong Cultural Center and learn about the Thai Puan community history and culture. |
Pay respect to Pra Kru Wiriyanuyok, the abbot of Fang Klong Temple, with the five aggregates and pandan leaf rose bouquet. |
Experience an “Ean Kwan Puan” Baisi welcome ceremony that supposedly ‘summons the souls’ of visitors. |
Watch video about history of Puan to learn culture of Puan. |
Receive local souvenirs from Pak-Phli District Chief. |
12.00 pm |
Lunch with Thai-Puan Style and Enjoy local performance |
1.30 pm |
Learn historical Thai-Puan Way of Life at Purn-Ban-Wat-Fang-Klong Museum and Chalerm Ratchawat Fang Klong Cultural Center |
3.00 pm |
Learn how to do unique pandan Salted Eggs and pandan roses. |
4.30 pm |
Arrive at Homestay and relax |
6.00 pm |
Dinner at the homestay (local style) |
7.00 pm |
Practice easy some Puan words and phrases for daily conversations with the hosts. |
8.00 pm |
Leisure time |
Day 2: Tai Phuan class |
6.30 am |
Make morning merit with the host at the homestay. |
7.30 am |
Breakfast with the host at the homestay |
9.00 am |
Learn the true Tai Phuan culture. Get to know the “Heet sip song” monthly traditions and “Kong sip see” morals, which are still practiced nowadays. Make pandan roses. |
10.00 am |
Pay respect to the Buddha’s footprint model with Auntie Suree and Colonel Prateep at Koh Wai using pandan leaf roses. |
10.30 am |
Visit Auntie Tongsri’s ancient house with Auntie Suree. |
Learn about the tools used for working with rice, the Tai Phuan and Huen Phuan traditions. |
12.00 pm |
Lunch |
Chaluay Pochana, ancient Phuan suki from Ban Koh Wai Phuan community. |
1.30 pm |
Visit a school and exchange cultures with the students. |
Welcome ceremony from Pak Pli Wittayakan School management team. |
Learn Thai traditional dance from Pak Pli Wittayakan School dancing art club. |
4.00 pm |
Visit fruit market (Nong-Cha-Om) |
4.30 pm |
Return to the homestay and have some leisure time. |
6.00 pm |
Dinner at the homestay |
7.00 pm |
Practice some easy Phuan words and phrases for daily conversations with the host. |
8.00 pm |
Leisure time |
Day 3: Tai Phuan Buddist ceremonies and nature tourism |
6.30 am |
Make merit at the temple following the Tai Phuan tradition in the history of Pak Pli Tai Phuan settlement at Ta Daeng temple. Dress in a traditional Tai Phuan outfit. |
Make merit with 9 monks at the temple’s sanctuary and the stupa of Venerable Father Para, the monk who led the Phuan people from Chiang Kwang, Laos into Siam over 200 years ago. |
7.00 am |
Arrange “Janghan” breakfast sets for the monks with the Ta Daeng community members. |
8.00 am |
Listen to the monks’ chant prayers. |
8.30 am |
Breakfast with the community members at Ta Daeng Temple |
Visit important religious sites in the temple. Learn about Thai temples and how Phuan people are devoted to Buddhism from the community instructor. |
Pay homage to the Maitreya image in Ta Daeng Temple’s sanctuary. |
Pay homage to the stupa of Venerable Father Para. |
Pray at the Grandfather Shrine of Ban Ta Daeng community. |
Visit Ban-Dong-Kwand School (3 Nations School) |
9.45 am |
Go on a trip to the Tai Phuan community in Nong Saeng sub-district. |
Learn about the sufficiency economy philosophy and follow King Rama IX’s footsteps at Tongmon Garden, Ban Hua Ling Nai Center of Environmental Study, in Pak Pli district, Nakhon Nayok. |
Learn about organic farming and how resources can be efficiently used. |
Cook lunch with the host using ingredients from the center, such as fresh eggs and organic vegetables. |
Collect organic vegetables and use them to prepare dinner with the homestay host (learn how to preserve vegetables and create natural packaging). |
11.00 am |
Cook and eat lunch with the host. |
1.00 pm |
Visit a goat farm and feed milk to the goats. |
Visit Lao Doen mushroom farm and collect mushrooms for cooking dinner at the homestay. |
Visit local Thai-Puan Wat-Sri-Mongkon Museum to see the picture of Dhamma Puzzles |
Ride on traditional vehicle to visit the market. Enjoy the scenery and experience the community lifestyle in Thai-Puan Village, Nong-Sang District. |
Pay homage to the “Venerable Father Pra Yim”, an ancient Buddha image carved from a jackfruit tree at Takian Tong Temple, in Pak Pli district, Nakhon Nayok. |
End of the ride 2.5 kilometers at the tree house. |
3.30 pm |
Snacks at Rawin Home Cafe “A hundred baht drink with a million dollar view”, in Pak Pli district. |
Enjoy the view of Khao Yai National Park. |
5.00 pm |
Return to the homestay. |
Cook up some traditional Tai Phuan dishes for dinner with organic vegetables and mushrooms collected with the host and visitors to Koh Wai sub-district. |
Dinner at the homestay with visitors to Koh Wai sub-district. |
Enjoy the show of Phuan traditional games. |
Practice some easy Phuan words and phrases for daily conversations with the hosts and enjoy leisure time. |
Day 4: Nakhon Nayok – green city |
6.30 am |
Make morning merit with the host while wearing a traditional Puan outfit at the homestay. |
7.30 am |
Breakfast at the homestay |
Visit community economic base that concerning about environment and pollution. |
10.00 am |
Visit some of the top natural sights in Nakhon Nayok. Enjoy a boat ride with a view over Kun Dan Prakan Chol Dam. Swim in the waterfall, raft and have lunch in the middle of nature. Ride a golf cart along the crest of the dam in the evening. |
6.00 pm |
Return to the homestay with free time until dinner. |
7.30 pm |
Dinner at the homestay |
Day 5: The Tai Phuan community’s local products |
6.30 am |
Make morning merit with the host at the homestay. |
7.30 am |
Breakfast at the homestay |
9.00 am |
Cook with Kru Lord, get to know about some of the traditional Tai Phuan dishes, food traditions and beliefs. |
Learn about “Pla doo” herb-fermented fish and help the locals cook some traditional Phuan dishes. |
10.00 am |
Cook a Phuan dish, “fried red lotus extract-cooked rice with herb-fermented wrapped in red lotus leaf”. |
12.00 pm |
Lunch with Koh Wai community members. |
Arrive at Ban Mai Phuan community, or “Ban Moe” in Phuan language. |
1.30 pm |
Visit a rice field and learn all about rice and farming. Collect suitable ‘ears’ of rice and rice milk for cooking kao krayakoo. |
2.30 pm |
Visit Auntie Noo’s kitchen. Get to know the recipe for “Kao krayakoo” rice pudding cooked with coconut milk, a traditional dessert. |
Help Auntie Noo make the pudding and enjoy it as an afternoon snack. |
4.00 pm |
Pay homage to Kusawadee Buddha Relics Stupa at Patummawongsawas Temple. |
Visit the “Pak Pli Tai Phuan handloom weaving group” at the Center of Local Wisdom, Ban Mai Temple. |
Learn about the ancient handloom weaving method. |
Shopping food at Ta-Daeng Market and have dinner at Homestay. |
5.30 pm |
Return to the homestay and have some free time to yourself. |
6.00 pm |
Dinner at the homestay |
Join the “Ma Tum Ma Hom Nam Kan” gathering ceremony with Koh Wai Tai Phuan community members before saying goodbye. |
Day 6: Farewell to the community |
6.30 am |
Make morning merit with the host dressed in a traditional Phuan outfit at the homestay. |
7.30 am |
Breakfast at the homestay |
9.00 am |
Plant memorial trees. |
10.00 am |
Say goodbye to the community. |
12.00 pm |
Safe arrival back in Bangkok |