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Visitors. Please read. This
is not the official site of the school,
although Doikum School has kindly given
permission for their e-mail address to be
included. Like
all schools everywhere, the teachers at
Doikum School are always very busy.
Please
help them by sending any inquiries on
visiting Thailand to the Webmaster, (who
will be happy to
assist),
and
not
the school.
Thank
you. Useful
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+6 Hours March - Oct. Hello.
This website is all
about a school I visited while on holiday in the city of
Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, during January 2004.
Thailand is a very big
country, much larger than the United Kingdom where we
live. It is about as big as
France and a long way away - about 8,000 miles or 13,000
Kilometres. It takes about 13 hours to
fly to Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, from our
capital city London. I had to wait two hours in Bangkok
Airport for a plane to fly from Bangkok to Chiang Mai
which took another hour and a half. I booked my holiday with
"SAGA"
, a
travel company, as they had lots of half and full day
tours to see interesting places and things outside of
Chiang Mai. Only people
who book their holiday with SAGA can visit the
school. Doikum
School is south of Chiang Mai, near a village called Mae
Tha, which is between the towns of Lamphun and Lampang.(
See the maps below). This is
because Thailand`s schools, just like yours, are not
usually open to tourist visits ! Click
"Enter" below to find out what
happened.
I
looked forward to this visit for a long time before I
went to Thailand because, while I know quite a lot about
Thailand, and how the Thai people live, I knew very
little about Thai schools.
