26 March 2006

People of Strength

The people of Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos - this was gonna be one of those vaguely intelligent posts, but really a summary has more effect:
  • Extreme poverty set side by side with hotels catering for the super rich tourist - uncomfortable viewing in all three countries.
  • Nixon's secret war that's not very secret anymore which royally f***ed up Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • Western influences - the bad ones - drugs, alcohol at the extreme end of abuse.
  • Pol Pot being a psycho - watch the "Killing Fields" and you don't even come close.
Most locals still have a smile for you anyway. Bloody amazing.

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