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Going to Thailand was my first time stepping out Europe. It was a small trip of two weeks and sincerely I didn't know what to expect, but the excitement of leaving London and going to a warmer place was enough. It was my first time travelling a long distance alone and I confess that that idea was a bit frightening for me but it turned out being an experience that I definitely want to repeat several times. After a 14 hour trip with a stop in Bahrain, I finally arrived to Thailand. As soon I stepped outside Bangkok's airport I was invaded for a warm and heavy breeze and a load of taxi drivers screaming to take a random ticket so I could get my trip into the city. The language was a barrier at first, since my driver didn't understand where I wanted to go and left me in a random place. I didn't have service or internet, so I was lost in Bangkok and with very little resources to help myself. I felt like crying, but I composed myself and went to a little street restaurant by the road, no one spoke English in that place but the willing of that people in wanting to help amazed me in every way, I was not expecting it at all. With lost understood words someone took me to a nearby hostel, not the one where I was going to stay, but again a place where I was served with kindness. At the hostel I showed a screenshot of where I wanted to go and the lady automatically searched for the place online and gave the address written in thailandese so I could show it to the taxi driver and make the situation a bit easier for both. Again this second taxi driver left me in a random place (but MUCH closer to where I supposed to go) and again a dose of kindness was given to me. I found a couple selling fruits and local food in the street that a level of English that made communication between us possible, I showed where I wanted to go but since they couldn't leave what they simply did was to ask to a random stranger that was passing by to help me and then my mind just got blown. This not only agreed in taking me to the hostel as he also insisted in carrying my luggage. Nothing asked in return, no scam as thought it might be. Pure kindness, a simple gesture that I'll carry in my mind forever. That would be something I would easily do, but here in the west I'm not really used to it and that's why I got so mesmerized by this stranger's action. Finally I was with my friends after a few hours of struggle, I was ready for more adventure to come. Bangkok is a crazy city and not everything looks what it seems but fills you up in a way that when you leave even being tired from that craziness, something inside makes you crave for more, for coming back. And I'm sure that I'll come back one day. Better than Thailand's capital was going to the jungle, again there the guides warmed us with such hospitality... Plus the amazing views, eyesights, animals and plants species that I've never seen, the fresh air made me explode in joy and somehow I had the sensation of home in completely unknown place... Or maybe was just the need of being in contact with nature that I frequently feel since I started to live in London. After the jungle we flew to the islands. And if I thought that I blown for what I already experienced, arriving to the islands overcame that. Now that feeling was indiscreptible, paradise on this earth can be real and I was experiencing it. Travelling to Thailand made me realise how unconditional love is possible and kindness is a big demonstration of it, how this Earth is beautiful and that we need to take care of her now more than ever if we want to keep these paradise around the globe alive. Not only for their fauna/flora but also for people.