100 Hour Tropical Fruit Fast & Healing Retreat in Thailand

When it comes to tropical getaways, few places on earth are as beautiful as Thailand. Thailand offers one of the world’s largest varieties of tropical fruits and vegetables, a perfect location for a tropical fruit fast and healing retreat. Thailand is a Raw Food Paradise and a wonderful place for anyone looking to heal and detoxify their body.

Thailand’s ancient past is rooted in the Buddhist tradition, making it home to some of the oldest and largest Buddhist temples (stupas) in the world. The fantastic cultural diversity of Thailand incorporates a great deal of influence from India, China, Cambodia, and the rest of Southeast Asia, making it a perfect place to take pictures as well as offer an international photojournalist like myself, many unique opportunities.

Devout Buddhist, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.

Our Tropical Fruit fast begins in Bangkok, Thailand. Lead by acclaimed Raw Food expert and Medical Doctor, Adiel Tel-Oren (we call him Dr. T) in conjunction with his raw food restaurant, the Ecopolitan, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Bangkok International Airport (BKK) is really quite remarkable. The visual design of the new airport is stunning, even though its functionality is frustrating at times.

From the airport we headed over to the Riverside Hotel in Bangkok to spend the night before heading to our ultimate fruit fasting destination.

A beautiful sunrise from the Riverside Hotel. Bangkok, Thailand.

Our first stop on the way to our fruit fasting destination is the Tiger Cave Temple in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province. The scenery around the Tiger Cave Temple is simply spectacular. The gigantic seated Buddha is remarkable. Especially when viewed from top of the pagoda. This temple is not a hugely popular tourist destination, I saw both Thai, and Chinese here, but few westerners. More pictures of the Tiger Cave Temple in the gallery at the end of this post.

The Bridge on the river Kwai is our next stop, also called the “Death Railway Bridge.” I will spare you the lengthy history lesion on this one, but will tell you this. This bridge was part of a project to link existing Thai and Burmese railway lines to create a route from Bangkok, Thailand to Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) to support the Japanese occupation of Burma. About 100,000 forced conscripted Asian laborers and 12,000 prisoners of war died on the whole project. To anyone traveling through Kanchanaburi , I highly recommend stopping here for some shopping, a history lesson and some pictures!

above and below: Images of “Death Railway”

After a hot and sweaty mid-day in the sun, we stop at the Hindad Hot Springs near Kanchanaburi. The natural hot springs which flows near cold stream was discovered by some Japanese soldiers during World War II. Annie and I spent $4 and each got an hour long Thai massage right next to the springs.

From the Hot Springs we stopped at some markets to load up on fruit and then headed directly to Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren’s house near the border of Burma for a lot of relaxation and fruit eating!

By the time we reached our fruit fasting destination we had already been eating tropical fruits for some time. Thailand’s amazing variety of tropical fruits is not only delicious, but some of the most nutrient rich and antioxidant packed fruits on the planet. None of us went hungry on this fast because of the unbelievable variety and quantity of this fruit! Our diet for the 100 hour tropical fruit fast consisted of Mangos, Pineapple, Watermelon, Coconut, Mangosteen, Rambutan, Dragon Fruit, Grapes, Lychee, Durian, and of course Bananas.

Since most of us were still sick from the virus we had caught during our Rhododendron & Humanitarian Trek in Nepal, the next few days were very low key. From which we were all completely recovered after this fruit fast! We took some day trips to restock our fruit supplies and visit more of Thailand’s sites. A swim in one of Kanchanaburi’s cold rivers, Sai Yok Noi Falls and the Wat Phra Pathom Chedi Ratchaworaviharn Temple were all on the list. More pictures of Thailand’s temples below.

This 100 Hour Fruit Fast and Healing Retreat takes place annually, if you would like to join a future raw food retreat or fruit fast, please use the contact form on this site and we will send you more information. We can also make available exclusive retreats for raw food groups, or anyone looking to travel to a tropical paradise and heal the way nature intended.

More Thailand pictures in the gallery when you turn the page…

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