B a a n   D v a r a - P r a t e e p     All  right  reserved. A sweet romantic house seated peacefully half floating on the bank of Koh Kred, the only fresh water island amid the ever flow of Chao Phraya River. The River of Kings. The Ancient Thai Empire of Gold. The house is founded by Mrs. Kasemsook Bhamornsatit, she is now an advisor of the Body of Education in Pattaya City. She has been suffering  from her own illness and the consequence of her two major accidents that she was serious injured and went through major operations. Now she  has only 18 % of liver left and steel implanted in her arm. Her hormone stopped when she was 28 years old which made her bone weak. However,  to everyone’s surprise, she looks so physically and mentally healthy that she has then been a focal point for press and public on how she could  possibly take good care of herself. The secret she reveals is “The Body and Mind Solution”, her own invented exercises adapted from Thai Classical  dances, which helps strengthen for body, her blood circulations and her emotion. The wooden house was built on stilts naturally reflects the spirit of simplicity and serenity in Thai and Mon cultures.   It is used mainly for family’s  vacation and for her own sweet isolated escape.    As a writer and an educator, she uses the house as a great getaway from busy Bangkok to  pamper her creativity, to write, to rest, and to meditate. This place allows her to be more a partner of creativity than a prisoner.  It means a lot to her work, to her health and actually to her life. Realizing how much she is fortunate to have such a house and the values gained from it, she decided to allow others to have such an experience  by staying in one of the 11 rooms left vacant on most of the days her family does not use.   Only this way, ones can enjoy the precious moment of  sweet serenity the same way she always does by the bank of the sweet murmuring and ever flowing Chao-Phraya river.