{"id":163,"date":"2010-07-17T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-07-17T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:40:07","slug":"thailand-gap-year-internships-junejuly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/thailand-gap-year-internships-junejuly-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Gap Year Internships- June\/July Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As June is traditionally the quietest month on Koh Tao, a lot of the locals take their holidays. Most of the staff of Thailand Gap Year Internships were no different. Professional HD Underwater Video Instructor Trainer, Elisabeth, and Freedive Instructor Trainer, Monica, just passed along some photos to me of their great trip to Khao Sok National Park on the Thai mainland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_164\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b1.jpg\" alt=\"Khao Sok National Park on the Thailand mainland...\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the boat at Khao Sok National Park<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b2.jpg\" alt=\"Khao Sok National Park\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene near the water village at Khao Sok <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was too busy to go (not to mention uninvited) as I was running 11 fantastic PADI Instructor Candidates through their IDC back on Koh Tao. As per the usual, they all passed their Instructor Exams with flying colors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b4.jpg\" alt=\"Jungle hikes are a way to decompress between cave dives at Khao Sok\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b4-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Khao Sok&#39;s many rope-bridges encountered on a jungle hike<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_167\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b3.jpg\" alt=\"Leaving Koh Tao on the way to Khao Sok National Park, Thailand\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freedive Instructor, Patita-2nd from left; Instructor Trainer Monica- 2nd from right; and Pro Video Instructor Trainer Elisabeth- far right<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We run our Cave Diving trips to Khao Sok and I&#8217;ve been looking to get back for some more great dives. It looks like there&#8217;s as much to see above the surface as there is below. Our next cave trip will be coming up soon. A few of the guys doing their internships are really excited to getout there. I think it&#8217;s probably going to be worthwhile to take a few extra days to do some hiking around the park next time!\u00a0 Thanks for the photos ladies&#8230; now get\u00a0 back to work!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b51.jpg\" alt=\"The lake where we conduct the cave dive training at TGI\" width=\"400\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b51.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b51-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Near one of the dive sites- &#39;The Sunken Forest&#39;- at Khao Sok<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedive and Professional Underwater Video Instructors take a holiday from Koh Tao and visit Khao Sok National Park, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[14,68,67,65,40,26,69,9,66,62,19,64,63,15],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apnea","tag-cave-diving","tag-cave-internships","tag-cave-trip","tag-freedive-instructor","tag-gap-year-internships","tag-hd-underwater-video","tag-hiking","tag-khao-sok","tag-khao-sok-national-park","tag-koh-tao-internships","tag-padi-instructor","tag-pro-video","tag-professional-hd-underwater-video","tag-thailand-gap-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gapinternshipsthailand.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}