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• Learn to create healthy and delicious Thai vegetarian dishes from Pun Pun Restaurant in Chiang Mai
• Learn to make your own homemade soymilk and tofu from scratch
• Stay in natural, rustic accommodation
• Enjoy morning yoga and much more

Where: Pun Pun Centre for Self-Reliance

(Mae Taeng, 1 ½ Hours from Chiang Mai)

When: Every Monday to Thursday (3 nights/2 days)

Cost: 3,200 baht

(cost includes all meals, transportation from and back to Chiang Mai, accommodation, yoga instruction, farm tour, and the instruction and materials for 12 Thai vegetarian dishes)

• Extended stays possible with opportunities to experience: earthen (adobe) building, making your own clay oven, organic gardening techniques, meditation, bread-making (in an earthen oven), massage, yoga, and more.

To register:

Please go to Pun Pun Restaurant located inside Wat Suan Dok temple  in Chiang Mai city.

(To get there just tell any public truck driver “Wat Suan Dok” and they will drop you off in front of a large, popular temple on the west side of town.  Walk down the road straight back into the temple until you get to a monk chat building on your right.  Keep going past this building and then take a right.  Pun Pun Restaurant is located just behind the monk chat building in an outdoor courtyard.)

At the temple, ask to speak to Dtai and let him know you would like to register for the Pun Pun cooking course.  He will have you fill out a form and take your money in full.  Then on the Monday of the week of the course you registered for, come back to the restaurant to meet the truck at 1:00 pm that will take you to the farm.

What to bring/How to prepare:

At Pun Pun we focus on simple, sustainable ways of living close to and with nature.  You will stay in a simple bamboo or earthen room or cottage, share an outdoor toilet, and take cool showers.  We use a shared cooking/living space and then all live in separate small simple rooms.  We have a coffee-shop with coffees and fresh shakes available and also homemade products from the farm.  All meals will be fresh, homemade vegetarian dishes made with as much organic produce from the farm as possible.

We are located in a small Thai village bordering to the national forest.  We have spectacular views and a reservoir a fifteen minute walk away for swimming.  We ask participants please dress relatively moderately (avoiding short shorts or spaghetti tops) as we are close to a village.  Being close to nature it is good to prepare by bringing your own mosquito repellent, flashlight, comfortable sandals or flip-flops, and anything else you think you may need.

Contact Krit with any questions you may have at 085.720.6201

For more information about Pun Pun Centre and the other work we do, visit our homepage at www.punpunthailand.org