Is there work-exchange accommodation in Thailand? First experience staying in a Thai-style wooden house in Chiang Mai!
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, if you’ve stayed in five-star hotel groups, boutique hotels, serviced apartments, and backpacker hostels and found them unremarkable, why not try a traditional Thai wooden house? We’re not talking about those that look like wooden houses on the outside but are actually luxurious inside — we mean real, traditional Thai stilted wooden houses.
Spicy Villa Eco Lodge, located in the mountains of Mae Rim District north of Chiang Mai, is away from the hustle and bustle and is essentially a campsite. It’s full of pastoral charm, with small wooden houses nestled along the hillsides of Mae Rim.
Visitors who come to experience it usually share a small wooden house with two or three people. But in reality, many rural families in Thailand, often more than ten people, squeeze into such tiny spaces of around 200 sq ft or even smaller. Every brick and material here is sourced locally, giving it a very pure and authentic feel. The exterior looks quite nice, right? Let’s take a look inside…
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The room entrance is decorated with quite a unique style, including murals painted by volunteers
Opening the door, you’ll find only one wooden table, one chair, and a mosquito net inside. No air conditioning — that’s a given. But don’t worry, as it gets pretty cool in the mountains, even cold in the mornings and evenings.
To accommodate guests’ needs, there are still mattresses, pillows, and bedding provided
There’s also an en-suite bathroom with a sit-down toilet (thankfully a flush one — Nick really couldn’t handle having to manually pour water). And showering here... feels like bathing in the wilderness, where you can clearly hear birds chirping and cicadas singing... Oh, and by the way, there’s no hot water here either. Not a big deal, except that showering after dark gets super cold…
Although there’s no breathtaking ocean view or luxury suites, the best part of staying in a Thai wooden house is the balcony outside your room. You can lie on a Thai-style triangular mat in the early morning light, listening to the crowing of roosters, or snuggle in a hammock in the evening, gazing at the starry sky. Maybe this is why Thai people are so content with life?
Shop Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/spicyvilla/
Price:Approximately HK$320/night (includes work-exchange program)
Phone:+66 89 264 3738 / +66 86 189 5224
Email:spicywildpumpkin@gmail.com
Each small wooden house in the campsite has solar panels on the roof to store power during daylight. So electricity is limited here. Remember to turn off the lights when you sleep… otherwise, you might run out of power the next day…
The main building of the campsite is where everyone has breakfast and dinner. After meals, you can sing, chat, and have drinks — it’s quite chill. The campsite also offers a series of activities…
You can learn about farming and animal husbandry
Learn to cook Thai food
Go bamboo rafting
Visit an elephant sanctuary and help bathe the elephants, etc.…
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There’s no wifi.
And because there’s no wifi, you can play table tennis with friends, drink, chat, and somehow find the energy to excitedly say you want to watch the sunrise together…
The distance between people has always been both close and far. Ironically, in this age of information overload, when you come to experience the traditional Thai life in the mountains of Chiang Mai, everyone loses interest in scrolling their phones and instead embraces simplicity. They grab flashlights, head to the main building, gather to boil water and cook, then chat, sing, and rediscover the beauty of a simple, natural life.
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