My opportunity came while sitting in a Business class my junior year at Washington State University. We were greeted by two students who had just returned from the previous summer study abroad in… Thailand. The photos of the scenery, people, temples, and animals were amazing, but the song is what brought it all home for me, Moby’s Porcelain. This song may seem innocuous to most, but I had recently watched “The Beach”. It brought me to this beautiful island and I thought, I could experience the zen of “The Beach” in Thailand, so decided to sign up to study abroad that started in Chiang Mai.

My Thailand experience is the driving force behind Knutson Travels and the reason we provide cultural immersion tours.  Sure, we visit the temples, palaces, monuments and the like, but we also dance at festivals, cook with locals, chant in ancient monasteries, and feel what it means to truly belong—if only for a moment—in a place far from home and become apart of the culture!

Over the next several blogs, I will chronicle my first journey to amazing Thailand, a place unlike any other I have ever been.

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