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12 Jun 2025
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( NO availability before September 2025 )
Welcome to our tropical island home on Koh Mak!
We are a Thai-German family who has been living and working on this beautiful island for over 20 years. For many years now, we’ve been welcoming volunteers from all over the world to share in our daily life and projects.
In line with the core values of Workaway—cultural exchange, mutual respect, learning, and meaningful contribution—we host one volunteer at a time during various periods throughout the year to support our small team.
Volunteers should be able to assist our team with gardening, setting up guest accommodations, and performing small repair and maintenance tasks. We are espacially looking for volunteers who have skills in the field of sports & exercises like Yoga, tennis, pickleball - fitness in general. For helping our team with decorating the rooms and gardens volunteers with skills in interior design or landscaping are very welcome.
We provide the ingredients for preparing breakfast and dinner, and we also offer a lunch meal prepared by a local restaurant.
All the ingredients we provide are vegan/vegetarian – and the lunch is also vegan/vegetarian.
We are a resort focused on health and fitness on Koh Mak, an island with a very welcoming local community. Koh Mak is a small and tranquil island.
We are a smoke-free resort and promoting a healthy life style.
If you're looking for a quiet, natural retreat, Koh Mak is the perfect choice for you.
Whether you're looking to immerse yourself in Asian culture, enjoy the peaceful rhythm of island life, or simply lend a hand in a warm and welcoming environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
House sitting
Interests
Self development
Farming
Culture
Politics / Social justice
Vegetarian or vegan
Gardening
Plant care
Team sports
Water sports
Cycling
Fitness
Yoga / Wellness
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
There's a nice community of longstaying guests, volunteers and nomads from all over the world on Koh Mak. They are part of the local community and joining all kind of activities together, like Muay Thai boxing, Thai cooking, Thai Dye with local made colours and Thai language classes. If you are open minded and friendly you will be part of the Koh Mak community instantly.
Help
The tasks our team helps on are discussed and assigned during staff meetings—they vary depending on the season, the number of guests, or upcoming events.
No two days are ever the same :)
Volunteers should be able to assist our team with gardening, setting up guest accommodations, and performing small repair and maintenance tasks.
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Thai: Intermediate
Accommodation
Private rooms with an en-suite bathroom.
We provide the ingredients for preparing breakfast and dinner, and we also offer a lunch meal prepared by a local restaurant.
All the ingredients we provide are vegan/vegetarian – and the lunch is also vegan/vegetarian.
What else ...
There a lot of activities to do on the island like: diving, snorkeling, kayaking, biking, muay thai boxing, yoga, tennis, pickleball, badminton, cooking and more :-) During monsoon season activities might be limited.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have working spaces in our lobby. Our wifi is considered from digital nomads as very good.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (13)
Christina worked closely with our team to redecorate the Yoga Shala, created and led her own yoga… read more
Our team welcomed him warmly, as he made a genuine effort to communicate and was especially helpful in assisting our gardener with daily tasks.
In his free time, Halil enjoyed… read more
This was my experience with Kerstin:
After countless messages and requests, I finally received replies only after 18 days. The tone was arrogant and selective, and I sensed a negative perception towards me following my introduction in the chat. #redacted#
The agreement was 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, with… read more
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Christina worked closely with our team to redecorate the Yoga Shala, created and led her own yoga… read more
Our team welcomed him warmly, as he made a genuine effort to communicate and was especially helpful in assisting our gardener with daily tasks.
In his free time, Halil enjoyed… read more
This was my experience with Kerstin:
After countless messages and requests, I finally received replies only after 18 days. The tone was arrogant and selective, and I sensed a negative perception towards me following my introduction in the chat. #redacted#
The agreement was 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, with… read more
I got my own room in the resort which I appreciated as I was up early to teach yoga.
As a newer yoga teacher, this was brilliant experience as I taught twice a day 6 days a week.
There are lots of animals around… read more
I highly recommend working… read more
Kirsten is a 10 star hostess,… read more
Wir arbeiteten sehr selbstständig und erledigten verschiendste Aufgaben: Restauration von Möbel, Anpassungen von Fenster und Türen, Umgestaltung von einem Bungalow.
Wir bekamen Inputs zu den Aufträgen und durften danach selbst entscheiden wie wir alles angehen möchten.
I was in charge of doing all kinds of things, from gardening, to cleaning, to administration work. If you're an active person, with intitiave and common sens to see the work that has to be done: this workway is made for you!… read more
As a health-… read more
Starting with the location - koh mak is a beautiful, isolated and picturesque little island. Once you get… read more
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I loved it. If you are an active person, energetic and open-minded to do different tasks... That's the right place for you. They are open to adapt to your skills and suggest you to do what fits you the most. I… read more
She has been an awesome volunteer, a very responsible person & always eager to help. She pays attention to the details, sees where work needs to be done, and has a lot of initiative. She is very friendly and worked really well with our staff and the other workawayer. Clarice has also… read more
