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Alternative lifestyle ecovillage in Thailand

Our Thai Community

Located in a peaceful and beautiful ecovillage supported by the local temple. It is approximately 180km away from Chiang Mai city and 80km away from Chiang Rai city. The ecovillage was started in September 2020 and currently has 12 members living together. Our aim is to create and build a new lifestyle model for people who are kind, diligent, simple, honest, trustworthy, and who would love to contribute themselves to human peace and sustainable development of the world.

The farm environment

Our farm has a beautiful natural environment, with faraway mountains surrounded by fairyland clouds and mists. You can hear melodious birdsong from the rain trees throughout the day. We have beautiful flowers blooming under the sunshine, and all kinds of organic vegetables are lush and neatly planted in the fields. Ducks are chasing and playing in the river happily, while buffalos and horses are grazing leisurely on the open grassland. People living here are diligent, kind, happy, and most civilised, they joke and laugh a lot every day, creating a paradise filled with love and auspiciousness.

Facilities and Community Life

The Thailand branch has a total area of 80 acres, including residential areas, a public kitchen, activity halls, pavilions, grassland, woodlands, vegetable and flower gardens, orchards, banana forests, rivers, and small lakes. In addition to members of our community, we also have some neighbours living in the courtyard. We help and get along with each other happily and harmoniously.

Open invitation

We welcome people from all over the world, regardless of your backgrounds, races, religions, cultures, and nations. As long as you are interested in this new lifestyle mode, please come to visit us, experience this happy and simple life together, and help create, improve, and perfect this new lifestyle mode for all kind and lovely people on earth! We wish you a happy and unforgettable stay.

Visitor guidelines

If you are visiting as a group, we can currently accommodate no more than 10 people at a time. We recommend each visitor stay for one week to engage with and experience our community fully. If both sides feel a good connection, visitors may extend their stay or even consider becoming members.

Fees and accommodation

At Lifechanyuan International Family Society – Thailand Branch, we offer two unique ways to experience our community life:

Visitor experience

For those seeking a short-term immersion:

• • Stay 3–7 days (maximum 7)
  • Contribute about 2 hours/day in joyful service (gardening, cooking, cleaning, laundry)
  • Community participation fee: ฿500 per person per day

• Includes: accommodation (guest room or tent), 2 vegetarian meals daily, snacks, tea, and water

This option is perfect for those who wish to taste our lifestyle, rest in nature, and connect with the community.

Volunteer experience

For those ready for a longer commitment:

• Stay 2 weeks or longer
• Contribute about 4 hours/day in joyful service (gardening, eco-construction, creative projects, child-friendly activities, etc.)
• Community participation fee: ฿350 per person per day
• Includes: accommodation (private/shared room or tent), 2 healthy meals daily, snacks, tea, water, Wi-Fi, and guidance from community members

This option is ideal for those who wish to deeply engage, learn, and co-create a harmonious way of life.

Important note

These participation fees are not commercial charges for hotel or restaurant services, but a way to share responsibility for sustaining the community’s daily life and essential expenses. Your support helps us continue our ecological and spiritual mission.

Gratitude and support

We warmly welcome visitors from all walks of life to experience our community. Your participation and support make it possible for us to thrive in harmony with nature and spirit. Every contribution, whether through your joyful service or your participation fee, helps sustain our daily life and mission.

We sincerely appreciate your generosity and understanding, and we invite you to support us as much as you feel inspired. Every gesture of kindness helps us flourish, and together we can continue to grow a peaceful, ecological, and spiritual way of life.

Work expectations

Visitor experience: contribute about 2 hours/day in joyful service (gardening, cooking, cleaning, laundry).

Volunteer experience: contribute about 4 hours/day in joyful service (gardening, eco-construction, creative projects, child-friendly activities, etc.).

Transportation

There are direct buses from Chiang Mai or Bangkok to Tha Ton every day. If you are in Chiang Mai, you can take a bus from the Chang Phueak Bus Terminal, which takes 4 hours. If you are in Bangkok, you can take a bus from the Mochit Bus Terminal, which takes 12 hours. There are no direct buses from Chiang Rai, but you can take a local van to Fang and then a mini bus from Fang to get here.

Important notes

1. We accept visitors who stay for no longer than seven days.
2. Visitors should be physically and mentally healthy.
3. Smoking, drinking, or drug use is not allowed.
4. If you have any allergies or dietary restrictions, please inform us in advance.
5. We have a full-time chef in the kitchen, and everyone eats in the public dining room. Please do not waste food and finish everything on your plate.
6. Keep your bedroom or tent clean and tidy, and make your bed when you are not using it.
7. Please keep quiet from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm and from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am as these are resting and sleeping times.
8. Visitors are responsible for their own health and safety.
9. Visitors are not required to work like us, and working time is voluntary according to their own conditions.
10. Our community is not profitable yet, and all income comes from donations from our members. We appreciate any donations from visitors based on their experience here, which will contribute to the construction of this place. Thank you.

Services provided

• Comfortable and clean tents, a shower, sink, and toilet.
• Two meals will be served each day at 7:30 am and 5:00 pm, mostly vegetarian. Meat is occasionally available. Food and snacks are also available in the kitchen at noon.
• Laundry service is available, except for socks, undergarments, and towels.
• Working gloves and hats are available as needed.
• Please let us know if you need any daily necessities.
• Community activities include sharing Lifechanyuan values and introducing the New Life Mode, as well as entertainment activities.

Schedule of the Thailand branch

• Breakfast: 7:30 am – 8:00 am
• Work: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Break: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Work: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• Dinner: 5:00 pm
• Activity: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (activities are not arranged every day, as we are flexible with scheduling)

What category best describes your hosting arrangement? 🏡

• Community/Eco-village

Location – Where is your volunteer project located? 🌏

• Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand 📍

What are you looking for help with?

• Building 🛠
• Cleaning 🧹
• Farming/gardening 🌿🐄

When do you usually need volunteers? 📅

• All year round

What type of accommodation can you provide? 🏕

• Dormitory/shared rooms 🛌
• Tent 🎪

Fee transparency 🆓🔍

• Visitor experience: ฿500 per person per day (includes accommodation, 2 vegetarian meals daily, snacks, tea, and water).
• Volunteer experience: ฿350 per person per day (includes accommodation, 2 healthy meals daily, snacks, tea, water, and Wi-Fi).

Language 🗣🇬🇧

• English

How to get to your site ✈ 🗺

There are direct buses from Chiang Mai or Bangkok to Tha Ton every day. If you are in Chiang Mai, you can take a bus from the Chang Phueak Bus Terminal, which takes 4 hours. If you are in Bangkok, you can take a bus from the Mochit Bus Terminal, which takes 12 hours. There are no direct buses from Chiang Rai, but you can take a local van to Fang and then take a mini-bus from Fang to get here.

Is there internet access? 🌐

Yes!

Additional information

Welcome to Lifechanyuan International Family Society Thailand Branch!

This is not just a place to live – it is an ideal home where humanity and nature coexist in harmony. Our members come from different backgrounds and countries, but we are united by our shared faith and alignment with the”800 Values for New Era Humans.”

Here, life is simple yet full of spirituality. We grow vegetables, plant flowers, build houses, cook, and clean. Although our daily activities are ordinary, they are infused with warmth and joy because we live with love, respect, and freedom at the core of our values.

Emotional and sexual relationships in our community are free yet noble and elegant. We care for each other with mutual respect and love, rejecting any form of coercion or restriction. We firmly oppose possessiveness and exclusivity in relationships, as they are the root causes of suffering.

Children in our community grow up freely, seeing all members as their family, and the entire community takes responsibility for their upbringing and education. Elderly members regain their youthful spirits, living joyfully alongside the young and children, free from loneliness. Diseases are almost nonexistent here, and many people who previously suffered from illnesses have regained their health after living in our home for about a year.

Over the past 16 years, we have successfully established 12 branches in China. Now, our Thailand branch is in operation, and our vision is to extend this harmonious way of life across the globe. Our dream is a world without racial discrimination, suffering, or conflicts – only harmony between humans and nature, between individuals and society, and among people themselves.

We are not a religious organization but rather an international family of love and harmony. If you are drawn to this way of life, we warmly invite you to visit and experience it for yourself.

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