{"id":19773,"date":"2014-07-24T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/khao-sok-eco-guides-make-the-grade-with-khiri-travel-support\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:36:00","slug":"khao-sok-eco-guides-make-the-grade-with-khiri-travel-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/07\/khao-sok-eco-guides-make-the-grade-with-khiri-travel-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Khao Sok Eco-Guides Make the Grade with Khiri Travel Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Grady-Grot_CertificateChai\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-494698\" data-mce-selected=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_CertificateChai-300x200.jpg\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" height=\"158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_CertificateChai-300x200.jpg\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19px; outline: rgb(119, 119, 119) solid 1px; resize: none;\" title=\"Nick Grady-Grot_CertificateChai\" width=\"237\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Seven guides have completed their Khao Sok national park guide-training course supported by Khiri Travel. Six of the seven scored over 75%, which lead trainer Michael Clark said was &#8220;excellent,&#8221; adding: &#8220;The future is bright for all of these young Khao Sok citizens.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The guides, who received certification on 11 July, are available to guide all wildlife-based activities in and around Khao Sok National Park in southern Thailand.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The focus was on improving English skills, group leadership, knowledge of flora and fauna, safety standards, first aid, confidence building, and initiative. The training took two months, with up to three days of each week allocated for training. Each guide completed 200 hours of training.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Grady-Grot_CertificateBerm\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-494699 \" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_CertificateBerm-300x200.jpg\" height=\"186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_CertificateBerm-300x200.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Guide Berm receives his certificate from the  head of the local tour guide association\" width=\"279\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&#8220;It has always been my dream to share this forest with visitors, and now I have the skills to make this dream a reality,&#8221; said graduate Viphada Jitsom. &#8220;The training had many surprises, such as rescuing a mountain goat from a hunter&#8217;s trap.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The certificates were presented by the Surat Thani Local Guide Association. The training initiative, by the Khao Sok Jungle Academy had financial support from Khiri Travel, Andaman Discoveries and Our Jungle House.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The pictures below (all by nature photographer Nick Grady-Grot) show the certificate presentation and the guide training process.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Grady-Grot_HikingReview\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-494702\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_HikingReview-300x200.jpg\" height=\"193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Nick-Grady-Grot_HikingReview-300x200.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Recording up to 300 bird species in the park\" width=\"290\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven guides have completed their Khao Sok national park guide-training course supported by Khiri Travel. Six of the seven scored over 75%, which lead trainer Michael Clark said was &#8220;excellent,&#8221; adding: &#8220;The future is bright for all of these young Khao Sok citizens.&#8221; The guides, who received certification on 11 July, are available to guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}