Under a firmament of swirling, illuminated clouds, the vista is of a wondrous coastal city constructed from a fusion of neoclassical and traditional Thai architectural styles. The stucco walls of buildings topped with red tiled roofs proliferate, as do golden nspires nand domes; and promenades lined with marble colonnades dominate the foreshore. The inhabitants - man and mythical beast - live side-by-side as they go about their peaceful pursuits, untroubled y the concerns of the previous life, and being joined by new arrivals, who alight from the vessels that had conveyed them from the last world, to delight forever in the eternal atmosphere of convivial contentment.