Miss Thailand Universe entrant Nutthanit Towan

Nutthanit Towan came away from last year's Miss Thailand Universe pageant with the "Beautiful Like Thai" award and is now working hard on her master's degree at Chulalongkorn University.

She's in the Labour, Economics and Human Resources Management Faculty. She's also worked as an intern, the better to realise her dream of becoming a businesswoman.

Where would you like to be if you weren't in Thailand?

India! I had lots of my Indian friends come over for the New Year. They're amazing people, all of them successful but all ready to party. They've invited me there.

What's the big draw in India?

The culture - things like a girl's parents having to ask the guy to get married. I find it funny!

What's the plan?

I want to go see the Taj Mahal. That's a must. I want to see the differences in our cultures, too. They have a big gap between rich and poor and I want to find out why. India has the fourth-largest economy in the world. The country will have a big influence on the rest of world, just like China.

Where else do you really want to go?

Egypt - I've been there once, but I'd like to go again. They have a unique civilisation that's 5,000 years old. I want to know how they built the pyramids and created such beautiful art, and how civilisation really started, from Greece and Egypt.