A female French backpacker was branded 'arrogant' after she refused to remove her 'smelly feet' from a headrest while sat on a coach.

Narong Thaopanya, 21, was travelling on the coach from Bangkok to Sukhothai province in northern Thailand on March 30.

He was overcome by a rancid smell when the traveller was sat in the seat behind him and put her sweaty feet on top of the chair at his side.

Narong Thaopanya was travelling on a coach from Bangkok to Sukhothai province in northern Thailand when a woman refused to remove her feet

Narong politely asked her to take down her feet but she refused to listen - staring at him them and putting her legs up again.

The army reservist recorded the woman - believed to be from France - and took pictures of her 'arrogant behaviour'.

He said: 'This woman's face was beautiful but she had no manners.

'The smell from her feet was filling the whole bus. It was hot and made me feel sick, because her feet were next to my head.

Narong politely asked her to take down her feet but she refused to listen - staring at him them and putting her legs up again

'I asked her many times to put her legs on the ground and she would not do it. She just kept them in the air.

'Somebody will have to use the seat and put their head where her dirty feet have been.

'Would she have done this in her own country? If think that she thought she could get do it because she is a woman.

'People should be more respectful when they are visitors to other people's countries.'