Walking around the streets of Khao Lak and speaking with hotel guests was interesting too. The cafes and restaurants were filled up with foreigners, I just saw very few locals. On the contrary the hotel staff was mostly Thai and some of them Philippine. Thanks to teacher who helped me learning Thai in Langhemi school I could speak a little Thai and was able to have a conversation with them. Actually I enjoyed the contact to the staff-members more than to other guests. Moreover I got the feeling that some of them have visited Thailand a lot but didn’t know anything about it at all. At this point I want you to know, that I totally include myself when I speak about tourists. I’ve been traveling to various other countries and I made wonderful experiences, but never before I’ve been living together with the local community. Now I know that this is a very different experience, it is also different than reading information about a country. Living together with locals will make you experience a country, you will breathe in the country, you will feel it; its problems, its taste, its smell and its positive and negative sides will open to you.