I am close the largest archaeological site in Cambodia and the Guinness Book of Records sccondo the largest in the world, I paid forty U.S. dollars to enter inside the area for three days even though I think I'll stay only two but the price was identical.
Esco hotel and take the first tuktuk to catch up and stretch a one-way trip to Angkorwat, two dollars and we leave after ten minutes we arrive, I make a picture and I will print out a personalized card with photo and again approaching the first temple, the greatest.
begins shooting the first pictures and start walking around there is a large lake or river, you do not understand, then cows and monkeys and even Chinese and Japanese tourists in droves, seem to be the biggest attraction, but as I can challenge, as even I am a tourist who shoot lots of photos.
Here again start thinking about the concept of "tourist" by refusing, and walking I get nervous seeing the tourists who give the candy to the monkeys, down with me and snap some pictures of our first-born, for then approach the first part of the temple, hence the lack of respect for what the present is meant and should mean even further destabilizes me, I guess sometimes closing his eyes what was happening here during construction and in later centuries, I try to imagine the scene, realizing that the vegetation should not be taken into account except for some trees that at the time it was a small young tree. I continue my journey and I sit down every now and then to touch the stones, take pictures, to imagine the past and calmly through this site, luckily I discovered it really is great for tourists and fortune can not fill all space, in addition to main temple there are other children, I approach one of these and sit for half an hour, the weather is nice, hot sun and some clouds so much so that every breath from the heat, accompanied by great gusts of wind ... I got hungry, but unfortunately I forgot the biscuits and tea also bought specially.
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look up and see the stalls, I approach and I also offer food, sit down and start a stressful negotiation for a dress that I will not part from eighteen dollars to get to five, I order sprint roll Kemner that are vegetarians and Angkor beer, I look in the eyes of a heavy person tired, the woman selling clothes that followed me and sat in front of me, I eat the spring roll and drink beer, I write this text and observe the landscape behind me, Angkorwat reflected in one of the pools that surround it.
I shut the machine to finish eating, finish the beer, buy pants at least it's happy, I'll give them to someone at the end are not bad and then I am heading for the second part of my visit.
I walked a little and I found myself in a pagoda, a Buddhist monastery and orphanage, it hosts children from nearby villages and are taught the use of certain instruments, including though in principle the idea is good, not very much in the context of this tourist site, the children are sitting and waiting for the passage of tourists and a sign asking for tenders, the image reminds me of a zoo where it is shown that do not see near your home, I wanted to make a video to show it also for your readers, but the fight for privacy, the approval does not and will not look like all lobbies characters around me keeps me from falling into the usual payment of an offer and then shoot a video, nothing different from Western television rights here bought cheap as anything else. I put an offer and I'm the only photo in the cartel.
Now I'm sitting in the middle of the courtyard of the pagoda and around me there is no one, apart from a few words to the bargaining order in a restaurant before and have not spoken with anyone yet and I have no intention of doing so listening to the birds that seem to join the music of children that begins with each passing tourists, and also to dozens of street children trying to sell anything, postcards, hats, shirts, paintings and harass anyone who passes.
I fell asleep and later woke up early I feel a little tired, I stay here a while to observe the pagoda full of paintings and clouds flowing slowly over me ....
The tour continues to close the first temple without any situation to describe, take pictures, think and understand the specific details of these magnificent buildings.
Angkorwat I go out and once again tens of tuktuk assail me to give me a "passage", politely refused and walked up a long driveway through a lot of scooters, tuktuk, bicycles and a few bus load of tourists on a trip organized, the road is long but pleasant journey took some photos and decide to make another self-timer, use the small camera mounted on my monopod, I smile at the thought of people who see me.
shot and go on.
finished the tour does not feel like having to walk back, I met two girls who I took a picture while the picture is a friend jumping from a rock, then I asked them if they had ; TukTuk to Siem Reap, I said yes and I asked him for a ride, we met and I found that they are Vietnamese, I explained that I was in HCMC for the adoption of Alice Minh with the family and I showed him Photos from the handset.
We walked toward the TukTuk and we made a few more photos including two self-portraits to be typical tourists, we held to have a photo with the Italian friend who knew in Cambodia.
Self-timer and then TukTuk way to the hotel, I have left under the hotel and greeted're gone, I left the mail and I have to remember send the photos that we did.
Happy to have made even this knowledge.
eight twenty-two p.m. Hours
After two hours of skype with Italy decided to go to eat, and this evening I will try to change, I find that a particular restaurant on every table plate induction where they put a bowl with the broth, then order the ingredients that you prefer, which in my case were babycorn, shitaky mushrooms (the ones that we made and they cost milano forty-six € per kilogram) and other vegetables, but I know that good India that it is better to eat tomorrow.
had finished eating I try to find out where are the thousands of tourists who crowd the temples during the day, and ask a TukTuk brings me to the usual U.S. dollars in bar street, thousands of tourists everywhere, fortunately, they seem Alpitour style but not too different from Rimini ten years ago, for most of northern Europe, Japan and Korea (at first).
chiecchero and walk a little with some seller, but I'm a little tired trying to understand and explain things in English, I turn to the inside of a bar and I hear two Italians who are discussing some canon lenses, I am interested the topic, people seem interesting, I approach, I wonder if I can sit down and join the debate in front of a beer.
The characters are three, Alexander lived here three months and three months in Italy, working for an NGO here in an orphanage, said Massimo
Map was here last year and took some photos, back in Italy made a calendar and picked tremiladollari about this year is back to lead them in an orphanage which vorrebbecomprare a land, is not an easy path but is confident of being able to Travor money and trust in people who want to help that will make good use of his gifts and the third is a photographer accompanying the map to do a story
Lorenzo.
more and more I realize that people who help those in need is broad, but I do not hold back from raising the question that Stephen Kon Tum gave me the mind and I ask them the question, if Is it not true that those who come to Asia to help people who "need" does not really do it for themselves itself, not waiting for response and I admit that I realized that I help others to do good to myself. Map says that he has this doubt, but if everyone to feel good helping others, surely the world would be at least a bit better.
Then we can think of the show the guy with the list of things to adjust to his karma and all burst out laughing.
CONOS in that bar that David also runs a guesthouse with a English friend in town, and then a tuktukman that tomorrow I must take to continue the tour of the temples, drawn for the day tomorrow and I put a switch to home this evening, do not bother waiting invite him to the table with us and we offer first and then a coke coca & whiskey.
beers are increasing and the time is getting late, we decided to go home, tomorrow we'll meet at sixteen to go to the orphanage where Alex works in the evening and dinner in guesthose of David on Monday, will instead go to 'another orphanage, I added to my trip stops and I am glad I finally reached them next week in the capital, where probably it's off to Thailand to the north to visit some interesting villages, but excluding the idea of \u200b\u200bgoing on the Map Burma border to see the armies arrayed, as many people have been arrested recently exchanged Burmese dissidents to flee.
Now I try to rest for at least an hour
Night. K
SECOND DAY: Hours of twenty-five twenty duemilaundici January
I turn off the alarm goes off and then called me to warn me that the recep my tuktuk is waiting for me, unfortunately I I go back to sleep and wake up at seven, realizing that his friend the night before he left, I call the phone and he has another client, but no matter, I make a big breakfast at the hotel and then go out.
Contract with another tuktuk and for ten dollars will take me around all day, we leave and tell him what I saw yesterday, the sky is overcast and there is a mantle of hot, keep the camera in your backpack because the light is bad to photograph, we visit the temples first and then I choose one a little isolated.
Now I'm here, I'm ten twenty-five and sat on one of the highest points of the temple with his legs crossed in writing, a few steps and ask me what I do, I said that I write, but I know that I have realized that the writer and a Japanese couple I wanted to take a picture, perhaps as Bea says, the small Kucciolo
of Buddha and adding technology, here is an absolute peace, and very few tourists pass through the temple inspires me like writing, though in reality I'm stuck in a story that seems too detailed and do not even know why, a story that most likely will finish in the short to return to do more analysis trying to express more briefly the concepts I want to share.
Every so often comes a ray of sun, but is weak and then disappears, snap some photos, now in black and white, then reach the temple tuktuk and change, maybe in the next write something different.
Greetings
Public
two photos but I have taken so many, I must choose how to display them for review.
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PS: I drank too many beers yesterday, now down with the media because I want to be more shiny and have less weight in the head and stomach.