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Published: February 11th 2013
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The road to Hell......
.....even with Sat nav Days 15/16.
Left Koh Chang at 09.30 heading north to Sanam Chai Chet - a distance of 400kms approx. Our mission to visit school in the province a project by Tilac Ben Foundation (please visit
www.tilacben.com for further info).
We put our faith in TomTom but this proved to be a bad decision as you can see from the photos - we were going nowhere slowly. We abandoned TomTom when we found ourselves in a jungle plantation with no way out so we hit reverse.
Reverting to old technology i.e. maps, we eventually reached our destination some 7 hours from leaving home. We visited our Thai family who welcomed us with typical Thai hospitality - smiles, food and drink.
Back on the road we arrived at our accommodation for the evening just after dusk in Kabin Buri. Fell into bed.
Early start Monday. When parking the van the previous evening we didn't realise that when we all got out, the van had become wedged under the shelter so we all had to get in again before we could reverse out and set off.
Arrived at school to be greeted by the Director and his staff
who were very happy to show us around the newly completed sports field and running track (funded by Tilac Ben Foundation) and the school itself. It was approaching 38 degrees on our tour of the school papaya garden where we picked a bagfull to bring home.
While we were there the Director asked us if we would like to decide where to position the new stadium sign. After much deliberation the decision was made.
Eventually we had to leave and say our goodbyes - we left them with gifts to be used by the children in the school.
As usual, there are many sights to be seen on the roads whilst driving in Thailand - we've included a few from our route back to Koh Chang and our pool - girls at sunset says it all.
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Jenny
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Your pictures
How lovely to see such wonderful results at the school. Ben would be so proud of this achievement in his name.