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We are a Swiss-Italian and Thai couple.
Luca is retired from an adventurous life and now, with the help of our Burmese worker Sawsaw, is rebuilding his sailing catamaran 'Namaste' on which he sailed to Thailand from the Med 40 years ago.
Elle, who used to cook onboard is looking after the open house, the 2 guest bungalows, the Thai/Italian kitchen and the garden.
Our Thai house is 50m from the beach on the fringes of a National Park and we use the work shed of the catamaran on the beach as our BBQ and sunset bar. The 4 km long beach is practically deserted, there are a couple of street food places and a nice and cheap Thai shop and restaurant within one km. The village on the main road is 3 km away and the nearest small town, an important fishing harbour, 12 km from there.
There are buses to lesser tourist resorts like Khao Lak, Khao Sok, Ranong (about 100kms) or to Phuket, Krabi or Samui Island which are 200+kms away.
Probably because we are far away from busy civilisation we love to have friends and guests at our (literally) open house.
We often welcome travellers in a very relaxed way and we love beach parties. We are foodies and appreciate the company of people who love experimenting good food without many restrictions. We hope you do too.
We have some water toys on the beach, a bicycle and a 4x4 pick-up for excursions. Motorscooters can be rented in town, as can local longtail boats to nearby deserted islands
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Aide informatique/internet
Centres d’intérêt
Cuisine et alimentation
Sports nautiques
Voile / bateau
Nature
Plage
Sports d'aventure
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
Apart from living in an almost wild tropical surrounding on the Andaman Sea and working on a boat on a deserted beach, you will be able to learn basic Thai, about Thai customs and history...and especially Thai cuisine in a culturally open and international setting.
If you are interested, you can always ask Luca to tell you about some of his past and future adventures.
Aide
Depending on your particular skills you will be asked to help and participate in the restauration work on the boat: painting, woodwork, composite (fiberglass), mechanics, electrics and more. If you are a good writer or computer wizard you will be most welcome. Also, we'll ask you to help Elle in the garden, kitchen and house.
Langues
Langues parlées
Allemand: Courant
Anglais: Courant
Français: Courant
Italien: Courant
Thai: CourantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Luca has been travelling for a large part of his life: as a young tour guide taking tourists round Europe from London in his twenties to overland trips to India and Africa later, and sailing his catamaran NAMASTE from the Med, through the Red Sea to India, SriLanka and finally Thailand. 25 years ago, on his catamaran, he spearheaded Biodiversity Research in the nearby Burmese Mergui Archipelago. Elle came onboard as a hostess and cook... She is Thai, also speaks English, is always good company and is learning Italian.
Hébergement
We have separate accomodation in two double rooms and a single on the first floor of our converted, traditional southern house with a shared bathroom. Don't expect luxury.
The two cabins on the catamaran are also being adapted for sleeping, if you like the sound of the waves!
Alternatively and if you like more privacy, for a specially reduced price, you could stay in one of Elle's two bungalows on the lagoon near the beach which she occasionally rents to travellers and friends.
We have a common breakfast at 8am, a light lunch at 1pm and dinner together at 7pm
You can use most facilities and jump in the sea or into Luca's small exercise little pool when you feel hot.
In the 'winter' season (November to April) we do not need air conditioning as there is always a breeze from the sea or, at night, from the mountains. We are lucky that there are few insects and even less dangerous snakes.
Just beware of mosquitoes and sandflies on the beach at sunset. Moskito nets are available, but we normally sleep without, with open windows and a fan.
We normally have a varied continental breakfast incl. fruit, cereals, yoghurt; often homemade bread and jam, with coffee or tea.
For lunch normally a Thai noodle or rice dish.
At dinner Elle cooks delicious Thai or Italian dishes . We often organise BBQs on the beach and we also have an outside thatch roof 'sala' with BBQ and pizza oven next to the main house.
After some negative experience we have decided not to accept special needs as they disrupt the quality of food for all the others and Elle's creativity.
Autres infos...
Work is 5 hours a day from Monday to Friday. You are expected to, in turns, help Elle cooking, washing and tidying up. You can use our washing machine for your clothes and linen. On weekends (from Friday afternoon to Sunday night) both you and we are free and you should take your meals and sleep outside 2 nights and take advantage by visiting the nearby towns, islands and national parks. (Ranong, Takeaway, Khao Sok, Surin Islands, L'arma son etc.); well help you organise it. There are also some very cheap options like trekking and camping at a waterfall nearby.
We like to explore ourselves and often go off-road in our 4x4 pick-up. A fat wheel bicycle is available and motorcycles can be rented for cheap in town.
Our nearest neighbors are a very nice Muslim family.
Like in most of Thailand nakedness on the beach is not allowed. Otherwise we live a very free life.
Our special offer to volunteers is the high quality food, including some of the best seafood straight from the nearby fishing villages.
Elle, whom many consider a Thai MasterChef, also cooks very good Italian. She has a few stray dogs around the house that she loves to feed. She also loves to go fishing with a long net at sunset. gardening or going to the fresh market in the morning. She is very allergic to smoke, so if you do, not in the house!
Luca, plans and supervises work on Namaste and other projects.
He doesn't walk well, but loves swimming, watersports, adventure and 4x4 exploration.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
We have two good wifis at our place, and an office. Digital nomads are welcome, also to help us develop our own communication.
Espace pour garer des vans
We have room for a couple of campers near our house or on the beach.Also camping is possible. An independent shower/toilet is available.
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I helped sanding,filling and painting on the boat. Luca was very clear with instructions which made life easy and was always there if I had any questions. I was lucky to have some other amazing work aways with me, we felt… read more
The work on the Namaste is different everyday, sometimes wiring, sanding, painting, filling, working with fiberglass and more. We worked on the interior, masts and sails!
Elle makes restaurant quality food everyday and eating together feels like a… read more
I stayed with Elle and Luca in January 2024.
It was incredible, I had such a great time and I would recommend this experience to anyone.
I met some great people and loved listening to everyone's adventures. I hope one day I'll have the chance to meet them again.
Thanks again for everything Elle and Luca!
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I helped sanding,filling and painting on the boat. Luca was very clear with instructions which made life easy and was always there if I had any questions. I was lucky to have some other amazing work aways with me, we felt… read more
The work on the Namaste is different everyday, sometimes wiring, sanding, painting, filling, working with fiberglass and more. We worked on the interior, masts and sails!
Elle makes restaurant quality food everyday and eating together feels like a… read more
I stayed with Elle and Luca in January 2024.
It was incredible, I had such a great time and I would recommend this experience to anyone.
I met some great people and loved listening to everyone's adventures. I hope one day I'll have the chance to meet them again.
Thanks again for everything Elle and Luca!
Luca is kind and full of ideas. Dinners, Beachparties, beachcleanups etc were such a nice experience.
I sometimes struggled… read more
All the comments below are true: you will meet another workawayers, you will all eat together the… read more
Maybe because it's the first but also and above all because Elle and Luca are simply at the top.
They know how to put you at ease, I felt very good there from the beginning until the end.
A perfect balance between work and free time.
Believe me, what you will receive from them is worth much more… read more
Luka and Aew is a great hosts!
I stayed for a month, and would stay more!
Nice place, interesting tasks, good people, delicious food.
Almost private beach you can ride with a bicycle, some water toys, nice surrounding to explore.
Just like a life of a dream!
Big thanx for this… read more
Their place it's a paradise. Elle's kitchen one of the best you will ever try in your life. I'm italian, I don't joke about food :)
The daily tasks are not hard, if you are not able to do something try to… read more
We arrived there with nothing expect motivation and happiness and we left with new friends.
(Litlle shot out to my brother Bawee that i met there, Aew's niece's husband. I miss you เพื่อน Bawee)
If you want to go there you might know some stuff :
Take an interest to the way of living of locals there, be curious, smiley, kind,… read more
