The MRDM students visited the Tourism village at Ban Mae Kampong at Nov 2018 to particpate in the student symposium for their discussion about community management. They met and discussed with headman of Mae Kampong village to aid students in planning their time and recording their ideas about management and observations as well.
This village is a popular natural tourist attraction and also hosts an interesting Community Learning Center. Mae Kampong takes its name from the beautiful yellow and red kampong flowers that grow along the creek. Most people in this community cultivate tea, coffee and grow crops. Baan Mae Kampong is in fact the first model homestay in Thailand where tourists can stay overnight with residents in their homes, a fantastic opportunity to learn their lifestyles and culture, and participate with them in their daily activitie. If you would like to get close to a traditionally rustic way of life, you could do much worse than finding yourself in Baan Mae Kampong.
Sharing with a local family costs about 450 baht per room per night, including delicious meals and beverages. Visitors will have opportunity to collect tea leaves in the forest with their homestay family, learn the skills of a coffee plantation, and watch how locals make pillows from tea leaves. Mae Kampong Waterfall is the origin of the creek that runs through the village. Some seven stores in height, it is situated at the far end of the village, and offers clear cold water and banks covered in ferns and moss – a very suitable spot for a picnic.
The field trip is opportunity of MRDM students with to understand the community management in improve their livelihood by nature condition.
Writer: Le Hong Thuy
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