[OGOGOogoloshennya]

Where is the real Thailand? If you yourself are not Thai then how can you answer the question objectively? As an 'outsider' you can only ever campare what you see and experience to what you perceive or expect Thailand 'should be'... If someone is born and bred in Bangkok, Chiang Mai or Isaan then for them that is the 'real Thailand' as that is all they have experienced.

For me the 'real Thailand' is everything I experience from the moment I get off the plane to when I depart, whether it be watching a cockfight or feeding a pig in our village, or eating KFC or McDonalds amongst Farangs in a Bangkok shopping mall.

David