On Sunday, we visited Dream House orphanage that is funded by our tour company. We were welcomed by a lovely Filipino woman called Vic who singled-handedly runs the orphanage for Burmese children whose parents can't afford to keep them. Jess was crying at her welcome speech before we even went inside. We were greeted by about 30 children aged 2-17. Vic explained how some had trekked from Burma for 5 days to reach the orphanage. The younger ones played with the to...

On Sunday night we went out for one of the girls birthdays and we thought this was an appropriate occassion, having got to know everyone by this time, to unleash the moustaches which we bought before we came. They went down a treat, although they weren't very sticky after we all became so sweaty from our crazy dance moves! We started our volunteering on Monday, a little hungover from the previous night - Lucy doing the childcare option and Jess doing the buildin...

We headed to Sangkhlaburi on Saturday morning, stopping at Hellfire Pass on our way. The Hellfire Pass is a railway cutting on the former "Death Railway" in Thailand which was built with forced labour during the Second World War, by prisoners of war. Jess and a few of the others decided to do the short 4km walk through where the railway used to be, which was supposed to take 40 minutes altogether. So they set off very eagerly and walked through the pass to a smal...