Bangkok

Every tenth tailandets lives in Bangkok with its six-million population (the city of Chiang Mai following it - almost in fifty times less). Krung Tep (the city of angels) - so on-tajski sounds a name of an enormous Asian city on the river Manam-Chao-Praja, mortgaged by the king the Frame I in second half XVIII centuries. Bangkok occupies the space from above 1,5  thousand both  sq. and  the m. Through its port passes the bulk the foreign trade conveyances; 90 % of cars are registered here. In its hotels 20  thousand rooms expect visitors. Hundreds the Buddhist temples serenely lifting to the root spikes and ostroverhie of a roof, and transhipped by transport and the people, choking in a stench of exhaust gases a megacity - all is interweaved together. Canals-hlongi embrace a semicircle half of Bangkok, it is its lifesaver of the streets driven by stoppers.

  Business on hlongah prospers - the floating market already has almost decreased to zero, but grocery stores, restaurants, trays with ice-cream, zaplyvalovki by boats everywhere. Till now in a city of boats more than cars. Magnificent limousines and razvaljuham in streets of this city-ant hill are confronted with rickshaws-samlory.

the Greatest concentration of trading establishments - in CHajnataune. Silom Roud - main bank street of the country, and Sukhumvit Roud - a place of residing of middle class. Ratchadmoen the Avenue is a centre of the ministries and official bodies, and also the international agencies. Shows and the attractions, a different stem of entertainment - about it neon light of advertising declare Patrong and Nju Petchaburi Roads on which hundreds bars and restaurants are had. Inhabitants of old Bangkok live in private dwellings, in plotnozaselennyh regions, such as Duzit and Bangkapi. Apartment houses of the western phylum are occupied mainly by foreigners. However more and more tajtsev are relocated in the same dwellings by the whole neighbour's communities. In main streets there were many three-and four-storeyed department stores.

Poor men huddle in hovels on suburbs and round port. Nearby 10 % of the population of a city Chineses and the Indians which patriotic observances bring in the special colour to city life compound. And Japanese and inhabitants of other countries of Asia give to a city a cosmopolitan tincture. The western agency is expressed first of all in extending to Bangkok a new mode of life, emersion of modern aspects of architecture, art, sport, restaurants and boutiques.

In a city some museums, a planetarium, art portico, the cultural centre. In several parks of the entertainments which have been had in neighbourhoods of Bangkok, it is possible to find attractions for all tastes. In the Sunday market domestic animals, fruit, vegetables, Buddhist amulets and many other things are sold. Park Chatchuak nearby is had. The new park of the Frame IX was discovered by the king. In Bangkok - the most brisk night life in Asia: ballet, dancing and folklore bunches (aboriginal and from Europe, Asia and the USA). At each large hotel there are night clubs. At restaurants and street snackbars of a city it is possible to meet kitchen of all world.

Hotels Manohra, SHangri La, Asia Bangkok, Mariotti Rojjal and many other things have not only perfectly riged rooms, but also everything, that facilitates life in tropics - basins, the health clubs, the obscured bars and so forth In a city are an aquapark with the greatest in the world basin with an artificial wave.

In many dwellings of Bangkok there are rooms in which Buddhist relics are stored. Round a city many Buddhist monasteries where spends a certain time significant enough part of inhabitants. Many temples and monasteries have lists on subjects of life of the Buddha and historical plots (Bat wools Suthat, Thon Buris Bat wools, etc.). Certain art altitudes were attained by a secular sculpture, in particular monuments to kings, the modernist compositions installed before museums, however it does not compete to old sculptures of the Buddha.