The Kingdom of Thailand is a hospitable land, the unofficial name of which is “The Country of Smiles”. In recent years, Thailand has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world – here everyone can not only enjoy the nature of unearthly beauty, but also taste all the delights that they can only imagine.
The word “Thailand” is so often written as “Thailand” that proposals are already being made to make both spellings officially correct.
In Thai there is no word “hunger”.
In pharmacies in Thailand are sold not only drugs, but also all sorts of things like chocolate bars, sodas.
Many Thais park their motorcycles right in the house.
The most popular cars in Thailand are pickup trucks of different brands.
As in the Philippines, there are many people in Thailand who have changed their sex.
Driving license in Thailand can be obtained in half a day, after listening to a lecture on the rules of the road and riding with an instructor.
Street food in this country is insanely popular among all sections of the population. Dear “Mercedes”, parked near a cheap cafe with plastic chairs, set directly on the pavement – a common picture.
Thais often say that Europeans do not smell good. The Thai people are obsessed with hygiene – they take a shower every five times a day, if there is such a possibility.
Touching the head of a local resident in Thailand is a terrible insult. Thais believe that the head is the receptacle of the soul.
It is almost impossible for a foreigner to obtain Thai citizenship.
The Thai calendar is ahead of the usual for about half a thousand years.
Thailand became a popular tourist destination after the Vietnam War. Then the American servicemen rested here.
Raise your voice in Thailand means to automatically lose any dispute.
The alphabet in Thailand is the second largest in the world. More letters only in Khmer, akin to Thai, spoken in Cambodia.
Thailand ranks first in the world for the export of rice. By the way, this agricultural culture was “cultivated” here, about six thousand years ago.
Thailand – the birthplace of the world-famous Siamese cats.
For insulting the king in Thailand, even an alien can go to jail for an indefinite period.
One of the indispensable royal attributes is the fly swatter. Beautiful, true, but still it really is a fly swatter.
More than 95% of the population of Thailand are Buddhists. In this country there are more than 32,000 Buddhist temples and a third of a million monks.
The full name of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand is the longest name of the city in the world.
The names of the Thais came into use only in 1913 – before that they managed only names.
Unlike all other countries in Southeast Asia, Thailand has never been a nobody’s colony. For example, Ethiopia has never visited any colony from all the countries of Ethiopia.
