Take a PDC on Koh Phangan Island in Southern Thailand!
On my first trip to Jordan, during a PDC course there in October 2009, I was privileged to meet Mustafa Fatih Bakir. Mustafa is one of those people who you immediately feel deserving of your confidence. He’s intelligent, capable, practical, and injects a lot of positive energy into his work. Mustafa was the driving force behind establishing PRI Turkey, and subsequently getting Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton to co-teach the recent PDC in Istanbul. He’s studied and gained experience under Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton, and is currently establishing and consulting on several projects.
Mustafa will soon be teaching a PDC in a rather interesting location — on Koh Phangan, an island in southern Thailand (see general Google images here). I’m sure not a few will be interested to hop along. Its location means a couple of things — the cost of the course is highly affordable, and there will be a great deal of interest to observe and interact with in terms of people, traditional knowledge, and general natural beauty.
Check out our listing of this PRI course on our site, or head off to the PDC host’s website for more info on costs and booking.
I’ll throw in a few pics so you can see some of the work going on with the host’s site. See below.
Freeform earth bag building photos on Koh Phangan Island, Thailand. The building was built between boulders:
Excelente integración al paisaje
Hi Mustafa – best wishes with the course. Great building!
I had the pleasure of meeting Mustafa at the PDC in Istanbul, and he is a great person, just as you described him.
Whoever is taking that course in Thailand is up for some real audience and human enjoyment.