For an OTR driver is a 100 days on / 30 days off type schedule reasonable?

Fairtex Gyms are the big name in Muay Thai training with many members of the Fairtex family involved. They used to be reasonable but with the growth in intrest in the sport the prices have become crazy, as in several thousand per month with VIP hotel rooms as accomodation.

However, you can still find small, traditional style, open air, local gyms, that will train forigners for peanuts, as in $100-$200 per month and still train with national champions in the sport.

 

^ There is a Lumpinee Stadium Champion who runs a small camp down near the Cambodian border. He was famous for a kind of almost roundhouse knee head kick to end fights. He is an older guy now but still looks fit enough. I don't train but I stayed at the guesthouse just across the way and would watch them work. Very impressive stuff.

I can't quote you the guys name as Thai names are long and like alphabet soup. The guesthouse is called "POP Guesthouse" in Trat, Thailand. Simple place but nice. Overnight say is about $9 per night, good fresh cooked meals for about $2. Website: http://www.trat-popguesthouse.com/ If I did train, I would go there.

 

Sorry, I don't know it. It is not one of the big tourist/ foreigner oriented camps, just a small, rural camp and I doupt they have a website. If you are really intrested I recommend you send an e-mail to the guesthouse and ask, the camp is just accross the street. The Thai woman who runs the guesthouse speaks excellent English and I bet she can give you at least basic info. Link for guesthouse again: http://www.trat-popguesthouse.com/

I am recommending this camp for 3 reasons:

- I don't train Muay Thai but I know enough about the sport to know they are training / working legitimate technique.
- Trat is a nice and safe small Thai town. Simple place but has enough foreigners who pass through on the way to Cambodia that the locals are not freaked out by a foreigner face. Also it is a great guesthouse with English speaking staff. A good place for a Foreigner who is not familar with Thailand to be safe and learn
- Koh Chang (translated means "Elephant Island") is nearby, a great island to tour, relax on and enjoy when you are not training.

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This is the "big rig" I drive in Thailand, all packed up to catch the ferry to go and explore Koh Chang:

 

Humm, I think just under $1 per liter (about $3.60 - $3.70 per US gallon) for 95 octane gasoline, but to tell the truth I don't know off the top of my head. To fill-up the tank of that 125cc motorbike in the pic only costs around $3 usd. I used to notice when I first moved here, but the cost is so low I don't regularly sweat or even look up to check what the cost per liter is. If I am over paying for a liter, it will only add up to a few cents on my small tank, I just stop at the place that is most convenient and I don't think twice about it.

I will check it when I am out and about later today and post it here.

 

Okay, I am in Bacold, Philippines right now. It is a mid-sized city in an otherwise rural provence in the Central Philippines. My price quote above was off, the price was the same at two stations I drove by today 48 pesos per liter of diesel ($4.38 per gal.). Regular unleaded gas is at 59 pesos per liter ($5.39 per gal.).