the royal urn will be carried on a large palanquin with three poles, travelling around the grand palace to the wat pho temple complex. there, the urn will be transferred to the royal chariot of great victoryring the reign of king rama in the 17905 and has been used to carry royals ever since. the elaborate pavilion throne will then travel nearly 900 metres over about two hours to the royal crematorium. there, the royal urn will be loaded into a cannon—equipped chariot, and the procession will circle the crematorium three times in an anti—clockwise direction. people holding pictures of their late king. joining me from bangkok is our correspondentjonathan head. jonathan, hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to pay their last respects to the late king bhumibol adulyadej, why is this so important to the people? there are two events going on of sorts, this is the possession which is hierarchical arranged at a great expense and effort by the military government, this is probably a kilometre away from the cremation site where i am, these people have been waiting for at least a day, some longer, the ones behind me now have been told they have very little chance of getting into the c

the royal urn will be carried on a large palanquin with three poles, travelling around the grand palace to the wat pho temple complex. there, the urn will be transferred to the royal chariot of great victoryduring the reign of king rama in the 1790s and has been used to carry royals ever since. the elaborate pavilion throne will then travel nearly 900 metres over about two hours to the royal crematorium. there, the royal urn will be loaded into a cannon—equipped chariot, and the procession will circle the crematorium three times in an anti—clockwise direction. joining me from bangkok is our correspondentjonathan head. jonathan thank you forjoining us, i can see behind you a long line of mourners who want to pay their respects to the late king, why is this process is so important? it's really, the ceremony is a mix of the very personal, these people have come from all over the country and have been waiting some of them for several days. people came over the weekend. quite extraordinary enjoyments, we are in the middle of the rainy season. there has until now been, it's like a giant picnic now been, its like a giant picnic as people have shared sleeping spaces, huge numbers of volunteers dr

the royal urn will be carried on a large palanquin with three poles, travelling around the grand palace to the wat pho temple complex. there, the urn will be transferred to the royal chariot of great victorys built during the reign of king rama in the 1790s and has been used to carry royals ever since. the elaborate pavilion throne will then travel nearly 900m over about two hours to the royal crematorium. joining me from bangkok is our correspondentjonathan head. jonathan, can you just tell us what the mood is like on the streets? you can probably see around me, there is an enormous crowd. these people have been waiting overnight, some earlier. they are hoping to get a chance to get through a number of security gates that take them into the inner sanctum of the old historic quarter which is dominated by this glittering gold pavilion where the cremation will take place in the complex around them. it seems unlikely they will get in. they are hopeful. to give you a sense of what this means, it's been a very quiet, relaxed atmosphere, almost like a giantfamily relaxed atmosphere, almost like a giant family picnic but people are sensing they are coming into the final hours and everybody wants

procession as they move around the funeral site will take around three hours to complete what we're seeing now is the transfer of the royal on to something known as the great victory chariot a chariot that was built back in seventy nine hundred five and has been used in every royal funeral since it was specially restored for the funeral of king when we want to do a new day at the moment ruled over seven decades wayne and people have different ideas remembrances about what he achieved for his country jory that time and what is the general theme that people are coming out with of the moment. and i think the main one so is that he was a very visible king he was a constant as well you have to remember that because he came to the throne at the age of just eighteen seventy years ago in one nine hundred forty six and he is the only king the most thais civil it done the end he's been a calm. didn't throughout those seven decades always visible always on the television screens always in the media traveling around the country going to far flung communities talking to farmers talking to villages about the problems about the challenges they were facing so that was the message that wa