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29 - 31 December, 2016
Cruising along Chao Phraya River is always beautiful, but especially so at the end of the year with University of Minnesota students. The cool season breeze brings with it cloudy sunsets with a fire of oranges and reds flaming across the evening...
12-14 December, 2016
Well there we were, Monday morning at Suratsawasdee, nice and quiet as usual and my brothers and sisters were searching for scraps of food on the floor. The deer were grazing the grass, the insects were buzzing and the gibbons were whooping way off...
1-4 December 2016
Ranong
Year 13 Students from Harrow International School spent a soggy week exploring marine and coastal management in Thailand’s southern province of Ranong. Based at the Andaman Coastal Research Station for Development and...
1-2 December 2016
Chao Phraya River Haiku
Studying rivers,
Human impacts; creatures’ homes
Cooking gorgeous meals
1 December, 2016
Samut Songkram
Salt pans shining and the sun creating crystals
A hundred uses for salt, cooking, cooling, and...
30 November, 2016
Traidhos Barge Program is always happy to create a customised trip but we were puzzled at first to be asked if we could lead a trip for a unit of work about Vikings! While we knew they were great travellers and invaders, Vikings never settled in...
28-30 November 2016
Ranong
Aim: To Investigate Marine and Coastal ecosystems with United World College, Thailand
Hypothesis: Students will learn about different coastal marine ecosystems found in Thailand...
21 November 2016
Eighty Students joined us for a one day trip at Wat Chalerm Prakiet Park, in Nonthaburi, for a day of exploring people, places and the Chao Phraya River itself. All students were heavily involved in four different activities throughout the day,...
15, 16, 17, and 18 November 2016
This was a day trip where students were on the barge to learn about Chao Phraya River. The safety session was interesting and caught their attention right away. The students enjoyed creating their own watershed, investigating Water...
2-4 November 2016
Bromsgrove Year 5 trip objectives included a week of exploration in Ayutthaya and team building, and that’s exactly what they got! By the end of the week the group was working as a well-oiled machine: communicating, sharing and being...
2 – 4 November 2016
FoRest, was explored and enjoyed by all of year four students, teachers and barge staff with a local ranger on the second day.
1-4 Novemeber,2016
Life is normally pretty quiet around here, this is the picturesque resort I call home on the bank of the lazy Tha Chin River. I say this resort is my home, what I actually mean is, I chose to build my nest here, within...
With a 35% decrease in mangrove forests in Thailand since the 1960s and one third of the World’s mangrove cover lost between 1980 and 2000, this week the year 8 students from St Andrews International School were on a restoration mission!
In an exciting new collaboration with the...
11 October 2016
Bangkok International Preparatory School and Traidhos Barge Program travelled to the grounds of Piyawan Resort, Pathum Thani, for a day of Chao Phraya discovery this week. The aim was to understand the importance of the river and extend their in-class...
7 – 10 October, 2016
This weekend staff from The Barge Program enjoyed a weekend of history and culture exploration with year 9 students from Mentari School, Jakarta, at Thailand’s ancient capitol Ayutthaya.
Our two-day visit started at Kuum...
24-26 September, 2016
Bangkok
Somerset students finished off their Thailand adventure with three days in Bangkok exploring Thai culture, river life, and modern attractions. The group were interested to see the Siam Niramit show, some even saying it...
22 September, 2016
The trip to Ko Kret with St Andrews Samakee was new for both Barge staff and students. The focus was the history of Ancient Greek pottery, and given that Ko Kret boasts a huge range of artisanal Mon potteries, there was no better place in Thailand to...
15 September, 2016
Suphanburi
How to be a cohesive house:
Take one step into the mud, behind the back of a buffalo, preparing the rice field
Taste test new snacks, all made from rice products, hot and coconut...
There was a sense of excitement as a group of housekeepers, gardeners, maintenance and grounds workers, Teaching Assistants and administrative staff headed to the train station that began the adventure first to Ayutthaya and then over the three days of the trip, to Bangkok. For some, the...
25-27 May, 2016
Kanchananaburi
Hua Hin International School invited year 5, year 6, and year 7 students to explore Kanchanaburi province, during their school’s inaugural residential trip. The group were especially moved by visiting Hellfire...
01 June, 2016
Barge Program worked with St Andrew's Samakee year six, seven, and eight students in team building this week. This group of students will together become Key Stage 3 at Samakee next year, and the team day offered an opportunity to get to know each...
3-5 May, 2016
Last time Regents Pattaya came on a trip with the Barge Program, it was up to Chiang Mai to explore the mountains and damp forests of the north. This time, the situation is a little different. As the school buses roll into the dusty car park, the...
28, 29, 30 March
As soon as Ruamrudee students were on board the barge they were keen to learn about the Chao Praya River. Their task for the day was to test the water quality of the Chao Phraya. They used observation of the colour of the water to predict that it would...
Exploring Samae San
Day 1: Fish and Turtles.
After arriving bright and early at the Navy Base camp and getting to know the staff, the M2 students had the opportunity to visit the on-site sea turtle conservation area. Not only did...
29 February - 4 March, 7 - 11 March 2016
Community Service in Chiang Mai
Stamford American International School Singapore sent their Grade 5 students, over two weeks, to work with Barge Program exploring Chiang Mai. A significant part of our trips...
Sirindhorn Mattayom 1 students joined us in Khao Yai for four days of exploring the forest while using English. This group is the twelfth class of English Program students from Surin who have participated in Barge Program trips! During the week we practiced vocabulary and...
12 – 14 March, 2016
Introduction to Thailand
This three day barge trip worked perfectly as an introduction to Thai culture and history for Appleby College students, who are spending two weeks exploring Thailand.
Here is an extract...
21 – 22 January 2016
The students from year 3 came on board the barge keen to learn all about the Chao Praya River. They created their very own watershed along the deck of the barge show how the Chao Praya follows all through Thailand. They really enjoyed the river...
08-11 February 2016
Brilliant brick-making at Prachakorn getting messy mixing mud, rice husks and water into expertly shaped bricks
Ayutthaya analysis re-creating an ancient world of royal palaces and battling...
18, 19 and 20 January 2016
ELC were a school from Bangkok
Who were keen to learn rather a lot
They boarded the barge
All eager and charged
As the boat was about to leave dock
First game of the...
China Town
After Barge staff met the year 4 class at ELC we headed off across town towards Yarowat Road and Wat Trimit. At the temple we were transported back in time to when early Chinese migrants first came to Thailand.
After a treacherous storm-filled...
A Day out on the River
Down on the river, one sunny day
Year Threes joined the Barge and sailed away
to visit an island.
It was a day full of learning and fun for all
Observing the river, as it rose and...
Samakee Remembers
St Andrew's Samakee Year 5 students spent their residential week exploring historic Kanchanaburi. Throughout the week the group intensely studied the conditions of railway camps during World War II. Connections were made throughout the week to the...
25-29 January 2016
01-05 February 2016
Bangkok Patana Students headed to Chantaburi for their annual residential to consider human impacts on beach, ocean, mangrove and forest habitats. Students enjoyed time on the beach along with camping in...
Barge staff met the eager St. Andrews students bright and early on Monday morning and wasted no time in beginning our exciting journey to Chantaburi. We set off on the coaches, with great anticipation and excitement for the week ahead!
Our trip started with a bang as we headed...
