Offers description

For this stay with the Karen, you will stay with locals, in a comfortable guest house run by Pen, a Karen woman married to a Westerner, the only one living in the village. You will enjoy the exceptional natural setting and participate in different tasks which vary according to the season. Like transplanting or harvesting rice, threshing it, fishing for crayfish in the river, collecting vegetables in the collective gardens, preparing food for the pigs, roasting coffee... You will prepare authentic Karen cuisine dishes with your hosts in cooking class mode. You will meet the neighboring villages where everyone will welcome you warmly.

Also on the program, a walk to a waterfall (depending on the season otherwise to the river) through the forest with the Karen elephants who live here in semi-freedom. Men and elephants will be able to bathe, then you will prepare food for them before letting the elephants return to the forest, once satisfied.

It's difficult to put into words this immersion, this almost intimate encounter with Karen culture and its way of life. Difficult to describe the emotions and sensations that will certainly be written in your memories during this stay which will be a bit like your Rendezvous to an unknown land in Thailand. With more comfort and the possibility of coming back whenever you want!

Your host Karen speaks English very well but not French. You can choose to go with a French-speaking guide for an additional fee, but if you have sufficient knowledge of English, prefer to settle for that, the relationship with the Karen, without an intermediary, will be even stronger!