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Published: February 12th 2008
Lelde /11/02/08/
esam jau tikushi lidz Saigonai (tagadejais nosdaukums Hoichamin city), iedaramies vakar velu. Viss shis celjojums pa Vjetnamu mani ir izsaucis daudzejadas ne vienmer (parsvara ne..) pozitivas izjutas... Cilveki ir ljoti naudorienteti un centisies no Tevis izdabut cik vien iespejams... Principa visi celjotaj tiek sava zinja diskrimineti sheit - mes netiekam uztverti ka cilveki, individi, bet ka slaucamas govis😊 Un turistu sheit ir daudz un visi dara vienu un to pashu - celjo pa vieniem un tiem pashiem marshrutiem, dodas vienas un tajas pashas tures, ed turistu vajadzibam izveidotas vietas... Droshvien ir gruti fokuseties uz ko vairak ka tikai naudas iegushanu, ja ilgu laiku ir nacies dzivot nabadziba, bet, ka jau mineju, shini valsti vinji ir ipashi nadzigi uz balto cilveku finanshu ekspluateshanu 😊 . Tapec es sheit nejutos labi... Ne, nu viss jau parasti ir attieksmes jautajums, bet gruti to attieksmi turet uz pozitivas stigas, ja ljoti biezhi juti ljoti izteiktu merkantilo vibrejumu no vietejo puses.
Laiks sheit ir ljoti karsts- kas ir vienmer labak neka auksts 😊
Atkal jau paspejam izstaigaties lielus attalumus shodien, ta ka jutos nedaudz nogurusi.
Principa jau ljoti skaistas vietas un lietas esam redzejushi - peldejushies dzidra zila udeni (es jau butu gribejusi, lai
udens temperatura butu siltaka, bet ista vasara te vel nav sakusies), gozejushies baltas smiltis zem palmam un ko tik vel ne, bet ari sheit tapat ka Kjina cilvekiem rupeties par apkartni neshkjiet tik svarigi, visi atkritumi tiwek mesti zeme un , piemeram, pludmales, kas ir nomaljak no turistu atputas vietam ir briesmigs paskats...Mani ljoti ljoti skumdina shada cilveku riciba un ignorance- to, kas nodroshina vinjus ar iztiku (edienu, dzeramo udeni un citam lietam) vinji piedirsh (maigaks vards man nav ko piemerot) uz vella paraushanu.....Es varu mierigi iedomaties, ka atri vien vel viens fantastisks pasules nosturis bus sagandets lidz nepazishanai...
Cilveki ir tik egoistiski, vairak par savu dibenu vinji talak aizdomaties nevar (es te nerunaju tikai par vjetnamieshiem) un nesaprot vai negrib saprast, ka mes visi un viss ir saistits - nav iespejams kopt un zaljumot savu mazo kaktinju un uz parejo vai parejiem shkjaudit virsu - tas ir ljoti tuvredzigi, ja tu piesarnjo visu, kas ir metru attaluma no tavas majas, tad nevajag brinities, ka tas viss laika gaita ljoti ietekmes Tevi pashu un Tev tuvos. Bet laikam shi brizha modelis ir dzivot shodienai un sapirkt labas mantas, izdekoret dzivokli, iegadaties mashinu un vai nav vienalga, kur visi atkritumi nonak,
cik daudz piesarnjojuma caur transportlidzekljiem tiek palaisti atmosfera, gaisa, ko mes elpojam, lai dzivotu; cik daudz plastmasas maisinju un izstradajumu mes katru dienu pargalvigi sagrabjamies veikalos un velak metam ara, nedomajot, ka tie jau nekur nepazud, nesadalas, bet krajas shausminoshas kvantitates kaut kur netalu, nu,- pietiekoshi attalus, lai mes to briesmu skatu neredzetu un lidz ar to varetu turpinat patmiligo, ignoranto dzivesveidu. Nu bet, protams, sev par mierinajumu mes varam skandinat, ka viens cvilveks jau neko neizmanis un bla bla bla, bet, ja katrs no mums daritu kaut ko, tas jau butu kaut kas. Mes visi esam viens un viens ir visi! un, ja viens var - var visi!!! Bet nav ko skatities uz visiem, jo mes katrs esam viens un katrs mes esam atbildigs par visu....Es katru dienu velos, lai cilveki saprastu, lai cilvekiem rupetu, lai cilveki rikotos......Un ticu, ka kadu dienu visa pasules sadosies rokas, lai tas piepilditos... cerams, nebus par velu...
Drosahvien kadam shis viss, ko es te sarakstiju ir kakja murgi vai jaunibas maksimalisms, bet tas jau ir katra pasha zinja.
Nu tad par Vjetnamu atkal, ja, turisms zelj un plaukst - un hotelu, mortelju te ir uz katra stura, dahas ielas ir tikai un vienigi
ar hoteljiem pieblivetas, viens blakus otram un, ja ir pacietiba, var droshvien pa ljoti letu naudu kaut ko tiri pieklajigu sadabut. Ari parak nemeklejot cenas ir tiri ok, vairak neka "Lonely planet" gramata minets, kas norada cik strauji viss "attistas". Mes videji maksajam 10-12$ pa istabu, kur parasti ir gan televizors, gan gaisa kondicionieris, gan ziepes un toletes papirs (kjina parasti tadas ekstras neredzet), ka ari pieklajiga vannasistaba ar normalu podu (kas Kjina, parasti bij retums 😊). Saigona viss ir kaut ka dargaks neka citur, bet nu ta tas laikam ir parasti lielas pilsetas.
Sheit vinji ari svin Kjinieshu jauno gadu, kas nu jau teju ka teju beidzies, bet tas ar bija viens makten labs iemesls, lai paceltu cenas visam uz to laiku, es gan shaubos vai tagad, kad svetki beigushies, are cenu paaugstinajumi pazudis 😊) Mes ar labi nosvinejam kada bara, kad bijam Nha Tranga, kopa ar citiem celjotajiem. Rit megjinashu uzsakt taizemes vizas dabushanas provesu un tad vel mums ir plans aizdoties uz Phu kok salu, kur esot ljoti skaisti un neturistigi (tas gan butu visnotalj neierasti un neraklsturigi Vjetnamai) un tad uz Kambodzhu.
Labi, vakarinju laiks ir pietuvojies! Bildes no shitiem kompjiem ieladet nevaram ta, ka ta
droshvien drizuma sekos😊 Lai Jums laba diena shodien.
Lelde - english version/11/02/08/
Hello everybody, I hope wherever you are and whatever you're doing you are truly happy. We are in Vietnam - Saigon. I want to be happy, but the place and people over here holds me back. I'm thinking a lot about traveling recently and there is something not right about it... Maybe it's just me... First of all everything is very overpriced (still rather cheap compaired to the Western World), and it is so because local people want to make money (which is fine), but somehow the way they do it, makes me feel like I'm nothing but a cash cow for milking . I'm a guest in this country, but all I feel welcome for is my money (or the idea that I should have shitloads of money) and they are doing as much as possible to part me from my money in many different ways... It's hard to explane, but it's very weird not to be a person, but a white face who needs exploiting. People over here are very crafty and very forward.
Probably the best way would be not to think about
it, accept the situation and just make the best of it (hey, it's still cheaper!) and have major fun as most of the travelers do, but I cant... I like traveling, but I like it when I can really get to know the place, be part of it, contribute, help, interact, share, care...etc., but this is just moving from one place to other, from one hotel to other, from one beach place to other... It's nice to experience all this, but it doesn't fill me up... sometimes I don't even know what I'm doing over here and why.... And all I see is how people fuck up the best we have - our planet and ourselves... I've seen beaches a bit further from main tourist sunbathing parts dumped with rubbish, plastic bags and all you can imagine, and all this booming new industry made, built to entertain tourists and earn money- without the slightest thought of how it will all influence the environment and our surroundings. It hurts, it really does, to see people being so careless and ignorant. And it's not just Vietnamese people or Chinese people I'm talking about (even though I haven't seen any other nations to
pollute their countries with such intensity), but people in general. We are so ignorant, self absorbed and happy in our little bubble we have created around ourselves - our main prioprities are to go shopping and buy a car, we don't care where our rubbish goes, or what's happening behind the walls of our flats or houses, or to other people, as long we have our own little comfort. but I don't believe we can genuinly be happy and fulfilled with all this madness happening around.... Look, what we have done to the world and ourselves - it's easy not to look, not to see, but if we will carry on like this I doubt there be much left to see at all....... We are all conected , we are a little part of each other, we always have been and will be - we can't survive by cherishing our material possessions and wellbeing. If there is no clean drinking water left - we all get poisened, or die (but this is just a little example). Just think about it - what do you do? And don't say, "but nobody else is doing much why I should. It's just me-
Hoi An
A lot of people really wear these conical hats in Vietnam!I can't change things."
I believe in the good in each person, but I'm pissed off at peoples stupidity and narrow mindness... I'm weak myself, I have my fears, but I know it's not right what's going on and I pray (to the universe - for me there are no Gods ) that I will gain more strength to do more...
There is more to life... there is the prospect of all people and other beings (animals, plants) living as friends - loving and respecting each other...And my biggest wish is for people to realize , to understand this...
Ok, it's late, the lady is closing up our otel - I'm going to sleep.
12/02/2008
We went to the war museum today- another horrifiyng witness of how low peope can sink, all this killing, torturing, humiliating, abusing............. And we do it all over again. Will it ever stop? And why don't we stop this? Why do we judge and hate and despise? People with different skin colour are not good,people of homosexual orientation are bad, hadicaped people are scary, HIV positive people are dangerous and disgusting ..and so it goes on.....And we hate and we judge and we are scared
and unwilling to understand and to accept and enjoy the differences. And we limit ourselves that way.
I want to be free - spiritually free- without greed or fear or prejudice... There's a long way for me to go, but that's the only way.
Steven/
Heading South has brought us into a tropical belt of weather. We have enjoyed lazing on beaches, swimming and lots of sunshine along Vietnam's coast. We're now in Saigon(or Ho Chi Minh) with balmy heat and the ever present crazy traffic- just walk slowly, face it down and you'll survive a road crossing!
People in Vietnam seem to be much less shy than Chinese. They will pat you on the back and look you in the eye. They're not shy when it comes time to pay the bill either- I hope to learn some kind of inner peace with each passing swindle, passing it off more easily each time- after all, penny pinching is not the true reason for travel.
Still discovering what it is that drives many- young and old alike halfway across the globe to foreign lands. Perhaps it's the smoggy, crazy, near miss existence in the cities or
Surf
Nha Trang the moments when you're floating in warm sea water and gaze at the coconut palms on the shore and the sunlight in clear splashes of water. Between these moments are sometimes long periods of waiting, frustrations and misunderstanding. There are also the physical strains of travelling as any long legged Westerner crambed into a tiny sleeping bunk on an overnight bus will tell you. My personal thing is that my skin is peeling like a snake after a little too much sun.
Tues Feb 12th
We went to the War Remnants museum today which gives a very sobering look at the American conflict in Vietnam from the Vietnamese perspective. The pictures and discriptions were graphic and heart renching.
The museum also has many captured pieces of US military machinery in good condition form tanks, fighter jets and a helicopeter to bombs and mines- there was one bomb that was over 2m tall and a meter wide- WTF?. The thing that is striking about these objects is that they are technologically advanced and designed and built for the singular purpose of exterminating human beings- horrific and cold when you think about it.
One thing that the museum brought
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Nha Trang to my mind is the idea that the USA has a responsiblity to the Vietnamese people who continue to suffer from the effects of their wide scale use of experimental chemical weaponry in the Vietnam war, and that they owe these people as much care as they have given their own soldiers who suffered ill effects after they came into contact with these chemicals whilst dropping them on the heads of the Vietnamese.
I realise that we're probably getting a rather one sided view of that war, but it is chilling none the less.
We're off tomorrow to the Viet Cong underground tunnels at Cu Chi. Should be interesting.
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Caroline Bury
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yes....
Yes... from playground politics to world domination, the people of the planet are cruel, wicked and vile and also amazing,loving and compassionate... there's no escaping the dualities and the awareness of them helps you to make the choices you need to take. May you always sip from the sweet side! Much Love, Caroline xXx