{"id":7519,"date":"2013-09-20T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T03:58:42","slug":"thai-homestay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/thai-homestay","title":{"rendered":"Thai Homestay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thailand is an amazing country however you take it on, and so much of it is geared towards making things smooth and sabai for tourists that you could spend years here and never see or do any of the things locals do and see every day. Maybe that isn\u2019t how you want to spend your time, you\u2019re satisfied with the glossiest expressions of Thailand\u2019s race to globalization. If you\u2019re not satisfied with that, homestay may be something worth checking out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Thai<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Homestays are exactly what the name implies \u2013 you stay in somebody\u2019s home. They will still be there too, doing whatever it is they would normally be doing. And this where the homestay experience gets interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are essentially two kinds of homestay \u2013 single family homestays and multi-family\/village homestays \u2013 but there is one common thread. With the exception of those places where it is more or less just a family renting some rooms out in a fashion similar to a hotel or hostel, they are set up to try and give you an opportunity to live like a Thai for a few days and really step outside your box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the trend amongst tourists has gotten more popular more Thais are setting rooms aside and opening up homestay all over the country, but for the most part you will find homestays in rural areas. And this is really where you\u2019d want to find them. For one thing rural areas can be hard to get around if you don\u2019t have your own transportation 24\/7 and a command of the Thai language, for another that is where you will get the best picture of life for a Thai<\/strong> as it was before the wave of global modernization crashed against the shores of the kingdom and as it still is for its rural folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Thai<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Depending on how it is set up, single family homestays<\/strong> tend to feel considerably more personal and the experience you have is much more like that of a visiting relative than a paying foreign guest. You will be invited to join in on the activities that family is interested in and thinks a stranger might enjoy, you\u2019ll probably meet some of the extended family and be the subject of great curiosity at a cookout, and you\u2019ll often leave with a real friendship or two you\u2019ll maintain forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Village homestays<\/strong> are great too, and you will surely make friends and enjoy people\u2019s personal suggestions about things to eat, do, or see. Unlike the single family homestays though they are often very organized with lots of activities, classes, and group things like this that you will participate in with other travelers who are staying with families in the village which makes it feel much more like a tour. In some situations they are the best choice though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill Tribe homestays<\/strong> and farming community homestay villages are some of the coolest escapist holiday fodder on the planet. Nothing will take you out of your life and stressors back home like them. Waking up with the sun to go harvest tea leaves on the grey mountainside before the cool mist rolls away, watching the sun sneak back behind the peaked horizon with the baleful melodies of hill tribe spirit songs ringing down from the mountaintops, and sleeping on a bed made from leaves will see you waking and retiring with a mind unblemished by thoughts of stock exchanges, inflation rates, political unrest, traffic lights, or your neighbor\u2019s dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thailand is an amazing country however you take it on, and so much of it is geared towards making things smooth and sabai for tourists that you could spend years here and never see or do any of the things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212,607],"tags":[310,565,563,564,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12031,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}