The Thailand You Don't Hear About On The News

When we arrived at the Bangkok airport I was a little nervous and again trying to get transportation from the Phuket airport I kept expecting for people to screw us over or something…boy was I wrong!

This is just my overall opinion after just 4 days in Thailand but I have to say that Thai people are some of the nicest, most welcoming, joyful people I have met.  The people in the airport that work behind the counter will bend over backwards to help you, the people in the market will joke around with you while you haggle, the people that you see walking on the street are always smiling.  Either there is something to be said for the sunlight or they are genetically predisposed to happiness.  When we told our cooking school teacher we were living in China her comment was “no one there smiles I asked someone why they don’t smile and it’s because they don’t have a job or money”.  I didn’t see anywhere in Thailand where it looked like the local people had money but they are happy anyway.  Never mind that we were on vacation, but walking the streets of Phuket with the smiling Thai people made me very happy.