Despite its modern trappings, Bangkok is firmly embedded in tradition.All aspects of Thai culture are revered here, as they are in any rural orless urban part of the country. Rituals are carried out on a daily basis. Likeelsewhere in the country, Monks accept their daily alms and people of allages pray and make merit at one of countless temples. In Bangkok you canat one moment be in the 21st century, the next walking through antiquity.