Bangkok is a vast modern city with 10 million inhabitants, where pollution reaches imposing dimensions, where circulation is delirious, where are also gathered all contrasts of a country still stunned by one half-century of wild occidentalization. Bangkok, from its Thai name Krung Thep (the city of the divinities) is not a dream. Beyond tempting exoticism that the temples deliver to it, the coloured markets, the easy pleasures of " merry Bangkok ", the tourist must accept the reality of a city which undergoes major upheavals.