Scouts from across Bracknell, Reading, and Slough are 'in good spirits' despite a teary goodbye at the campsite in South Korea.

The 36 scouts and 4 volunteers journeyed to South Korea on July 21 after each raising £4,000 to fund the trip of a lifetime.

Unfortunately, on August 6 they were forced to pull out of the Worldwide Jamboree alongside thousands of others due to the dangerous temperatures and precarious facilities in camp.

Although this has caused a crisis for the UK Scouts, members of the Berkshire team seem to have landed on their feet.

As the temperature rose to 38 degrees Celsius, a spokesman from Berkshire Scouts said: "It is very hot. Very humid. It’s difficult getting enough fluid into everyone, leaders included."

Volunteers in South Korea have kept families and friends up-to-date on their comings and goings through an online blog.

They wrote that the heat ‘took its toll’ on the Scouts as they camped.

Following the evacuation of Scouts due to the threat of a brewing Typhoon, the young people from Bracknell, Reading, and Slough landed in a hotel in the commercial district of Seoul.

As they left the site, a spokesman expressed a 'moment of reflection' in the blog, saying that they were ‘gutted it was cut short from what was planned for the young people’.

The spokesman wrote: “We have been blessed as I said. But others have not had that experience and had we been dealt a different deck of cards we may have had a different story to tell.

“We traveled here as a contingent, one body of UK Scouts and IST members to deliver and enjoy an unforgettable jamboree. I think the latter has happened, but not perhaps as had originally been anticipated.

“As a contingent, we have left the site, I think on balance that is a wise decision for the young people of the Baa-kshire Monarchs, we shall never know if we had stayed if it would have been different.”

After the unit arrived at the hotel in Seoul, volunteers have organised an itinerary of activities for the young people including a trip to the hotel pool and day trips to nearby tourist attractions.

The spokesman said: “There were smiling faces and laughter everywhere, as we had had many times on site too, but without the tension that the heat and dust of the site had brought.”

Although each young person had raised over £3000, relocating 4,500 UK Scouts and volunteers to hotels has cost the organisation over £1 million which was taken from their reserves.

Chief executive Matt Hyde said: “We feel let down by the organisers because we repeatedly raised some of these concerns before we went, and during, and we were promised things were going to be put in place and they weren’t.”