Thai people are often referred to be happy people. Hence
Thailand called by the name of “land of smiles”.
They always have a smile in their face, well almost. If you go to a shop or a restaurant you will see how welcoming they are. It is very rare to see an angry shop owner when you ask the prices of 1001 goods and then not buy a single thing. If they don’t have what you looking for they will tell you where you can find them.
As soon as you go there they will greet you saying “kap koon kap” if it’s a man and kap koon ka if it’s a woman. They will join their hands together and keep it to their heart and bow to greet. Like we Sri Lankans say “Ayubowan” except the bow part.
In Sri Lanka people try to cheat, fool tourists and steal from them indirectly. That is very rare in Thailand. May be because there are many but anyway it is rare. This is my fifth time in Thailand and I’ve being in many towns, many places but nothing happened to me.
Whichever way you take it, there is sexual freedom in Thailand. That’s one of the reasons why many tourists come here. You can see 60 or 70 years old foreigners (Farangs as they call them) walk hand by hand with young Thai girls or boys.
Yes boys too. Thailand is a heaven for homosexuals. There are streets reserved for gay restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels. Anyone can go there even you are as straight as ….. whatever. But make sure you have your homophobia to your self. They will fight back. Last year a very big hotel group didn’t let a transsexual to enter to one of their hotels. Then (s)he threatened them that if they don’t apologize in public they are going to be sued. Well eventually this went on and on and then hotel had to apologize the way (s)he wanted. Its not that Thai people don’t have homophobia at all, some do. But comparatively is very less. Once I was in a night market and I was buying movies. There was a guy there who was going through all the gay movies there. He couldn’t decide which to buy I guess. And there was this foreigner with his American version of homophobia and he said “disgusting”. So then this Thai guy asked “what’s disgusting”. And the foreigner says I cant imaging how you can suck a cock. And then the shop owner said “same way we lick a pussy”. And everyone came for the help of them so the foreigner had to run away. So be careful.
