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Marmot Tents - Easy to Pitch and Extremely Lightweight

Marmot is famous for its lightweight tents, which are made up of Pertez Quantum fabric. These tents are of extremely high quality and durability, and offer an excellent option to both regular and occasional campers.

The Eos tents from Marmot are quite effective in inhospitable weather conditions especially in the rainy season. They are made for 2 persons and can be used almost throughout the year. The tent is designed with a bathtub floor to provide anti-slip protection in wet conditions. It has a DAC clip system to lend it greater strength, and has huge space both inside the tent and in the vestibules for storage purposes.

Another great product from Marmot is NYX, which, like Eos, is a 2 person 3 season tent. This tent is extremely easy to pitch and as it is designed with sleeves and poles. A common feature in Marmot tents is wide vestibules, and NYX is no different.

Marmot’s Hypno is designed to last long and to withstand extreme storm like situations. It provides a huge inner space along with wide vestibules to store bulky gear. Hypno is meant for 2 persons and can be used in any season except harsh winters.

The Alpinist gives away its features because of its name. This tent is designed for high altitude and snow conditions. It is manufactured from a highly advanced polymer, making it strong and light. It also has unique zipped ventilators and large vestibule space for keeping shoes and gear.

Gap Year Approaching? Consider Work in South East Asia

Working in Thailand as a foreigner typically means taking in an English teaching position. While there are highly paid English teaching jobs in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such positions offer little pay.

In point of fact, don’t anticipate a decent salary for any highly skilled job, teaching or not. It does sound all bad, but actually if you aspire to live in Thailand for some time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t any trouble since Thailand is a low- priced place to live, the infrastructure is the best in South East Asia, it’s a safe country, and there’s still every chance to further your career and get some decent work experience.

However there’s an obscured dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: you’ve been staying in Thailand for a few years, and you’ve gained good work experience, your pay isn’t great, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so that’s OK. BUT, here’s the rub : You haven’t had the opportunity to save much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. Airfares look very over-priced compared to your pay in Thailand. The price of things back home gets to scare you when thinking about your money earned in Thailand. This problem hits a lot of non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or so after starting work there. Long- term plans are often put on hold because you don’t have the nest egg of money to realise any ambition like buying a home, tieing the knot, or even purchasing a car.

So, key point : when thinking about living in the Land of Smiles, also remember that it is very challenging to save meaningful amounts of cash when considering the prices of “back home”.

Even so, not everything revolves around money, does it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps learn the language, make friends, travel around the country when you have time off work, and get yourself some precious overseas work experience.

So what kind of jobs can you find in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com - a website listing job positions in and around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, sales executive job positions, Quality Assurance and Control jobs in Thailand etc. Essentially the sort of work placements you’d discover in your home country. Even though the majority of these job posts may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, you will still find English-speaking prerequisites for posts within many international organizations located in Thailand.