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1 Phnom
Penh
2 Killing fields
3 Tonlè Sap
4 Ankor
5 Battambang
6 The forest
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The travel begins on the 2nd November 2001, from Milan Malpensa.
Passing thourgh Rome and Bangkok, I arrived to Phnonm Peng.
The objective of the travel is a trip in solitary of Cambodia,
in order to know the Far East, in order to visit its famous
ruins in the forest, in order to enter in contact with the
local population. Moreover, to do something useful, before
leaving I contacted Emergency (association that takes care
to assist the civil victims of war), that in Cambodia has
a hospital, and they asked me to carry the medical stuff to
the hospital of Battambang from the headquarters in Milan.
My knowledge of Cambodia was much limited, just some documentary
on its sad history of last the thirty years.
I can tell you that it has been the most beautiful experience
of my life, and are only convinced that sara' the same one
for you if you will have the possibility and it wants to face
a similar travel.
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| 1 - Phonm Penh |
2 - Killing Fields |
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My visit starts from Phonm Penh, capital of Cambodia.
Chaotic like all the cities of the Far East, characterized from
the complete lack of whichever rule of circulation for the cars
and motorbikes, arrange one increasing modernity with a fascination
only legacy to its roots. The real palace, with its courtyards,
its stupas and its pagodas is the most tourist attraction. But
its ways, its mercatini, and its atmospheres from ancient colonial
city cannot be lost. Photos. |
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Memories of its recent past, the extermination
camps and the prisons as S.21 remains as indelible mark for
the future generations, in order not to forget and not to repeat
all this.
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And the heart push-button of Cambodia. This lago
is expanded and ritrae with alternating itself of the seasons
of the rain. The transfer in boat from Phnom Penh to Seam Reap
e' an only experience, than allows you to enter in contact with
the various rural truth of Cambodia. Photos. |
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Declared patrimony of the humanity from the Unesco, Angkor
covers a wide area, even if the greater part of the temples
is regroups inside a 10 kilometri radius from Angkor Wat and
the fortified city of Angkor Thom. In these ruins you can
have the unique feeling of being an exploratory inside unexplored
ruins. An unforgettable experience.
Take a look to pictures
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The thirty years of war, that have bloodied Cambodia, have left if possible
a more painful result. All the factions in the years have scattered to
the land of mines antipersonnel.
After years from the end of military operations these mines continue to
produce victims, every day, leaving on the ground cripple persons.
The mines are not designed in order to kill, to the contrary
they are scrupulously thought in order to tear horribly to
pieces the limbs and leaving the persons alive but cripples.
The hospital ' Ilaria Alpi' in Battambang, created and managed
by Emergency , is engaged to help these victims, trying before
to save lives, then to still give an existence with dignity
to these persons, children, often forced by mutilations to
a life without a future... [follows]
Emergency Hospital in Battambang
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In Battambang the CIAI , association based in Milan, manages
a orphanage. It was first orphanage I visited in my life,
and for the moment the only one. I have always imagined them
as sad places, where ill-fated children lived in the pity.
Even if it will seem impossible to you, this is a wonderful
place, where happy children run everywhere. Merit of all this
is for sure to debit to how this istitute is organized. There
are many small houses, all rigorously in Khmer style, where
the lifes of little groups of boys are organized as in families,
where the older ones help the Grand Mama who manages the house
to attend the younger ones. I have visited the orfanotrofio
with one of the managers, Lucia, and with some members of
the Emergency staff.
CIAI Orphanage in Battambang
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| 6 - The Forest |
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Ake, the manager of the Hospital of Emergency,
offers me the fantastic opportunity to follow him in the check
visit to the First Aid Points to the inside of the forest. A
young Spanish photographer, who was living in Cambodia in order
to realize a reportage photographic, joined us. With to driver
and an assistant we have crossed for 3 days the forest to east
south of battambang, on improvised instable paths, bridges and
smallest villages completely isolate.
First Aid Points and the Forest
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