Apparently a day to day account of a student of one of Asia's premier technological institutes - the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand - Away in the Land of Smiles in fact is a short, serene and soul-lifting narration of daily events, activities and experiences that come in the way of a sensitive, sensible and sanguine student of this esteemed institute. In the book the writer seems to take his readers smoothly all along with himself in the colourful, interesting and eventful ambience of his physical environment as well as the deeper realms of his mental and at times spiritual thought processes and experiences.