Hello everyone, I wanted to share my solo trip story in Thailand.

It's in fact my first ever solo travel in a country 11000 km away from my home country (France). I'm 23M.

Initially my friends and I had planned to go together but friends eventually had important stuff to do so I said to myself why not go alone, it would be a crazy adventure.

Took the flight and landed in Bangkok, it was a morning, around 9-10 AM. I stayed in the airport for 1 hour trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do next (I had already booked a hostel). I had to rely on Airport's wifi to figure things out, downloaded the necessary apps like Grab and Bolt, trying to understand their metro, trying to not get scammed. So I took the metro in the airport and got out at last stop in Phaya Thai. With the lack of sleep and jetlag, when I saw those tall buildings surrounded by me and the countless motorcycles with crazy traffic, I thought I was in a dream and was telling myself "am I really witnessing this?" because this trip was a dream to me and it finally happened.

Shortly after I went to a 7-Eleven to buy a sim card, it was a success now I have internet, the most important part of the trip.

The next day in the early morning I took the plane and went to the south in Krabi (didn't even take the time to recover from jetlag), because I had only 12 days to spend in the country.

The whole time in the south I spent my time in hostels, I just couldn't see myself in a private room all alone, and private rooms are also quite expensive. For me hostels were comforting, despite the noise, I like that there are people next to me, it's psychological and may not be common to everyone. I did socialize with some people from the hostels, it was interesting, but did not hang out with them. I preferred to be alone at that time.

I spent 8 days in the south (not only Krabi) before returning back to Bangkok by a bus.
Arriving in Bangkok, it was early morning (5 AM) and the check-in was in the noon or afternoon. I had already booked a Condo Airbnb + rooftop pool with an amazing view in Sukhumvit district. Not knowing what to do in the morning, I searched for areas to take a nap, which I found, making Bangkok such convenient city for me that I later fall in love with it.

I don't know why but Bangkok was a turning point for me, I enjoyed it so much and wish I had returned a bit earlier. I had only 3 days left to spend in the city. I installed a dating app though (many might be against this idea), I met genuine people and hung out together. Overall my experience in Bangkok was a 10/10, might not be for everyone but I had a blast. It was overwhelming for me at first but I started getting used to it, the BTS/MRT started to be familiar with me, and taking Grab rides on scooters, it was such an unique experience and very chill to go out at night.

Is anyone else feeling the same way for this city? I'm definitely going back to spend more time there.