The future...

...may look shy...

Yangon earlier yesterday

Looks like any other morning in Myanmar...monks going out to get their food for the day...

But this was the big picture in Yangon yesterday...



Pictures from
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00455.htm

Shopping in Madrid

Tour around Europe...how could I avoid shopping?
First stop: week end in Madrid.

House in Kachin

The Garden



The House



The Living-room

Do you really think I go out there without my creams????

...or without a proper pedicure in the field???? No way!



And a local tailor made dress ;-)

Going out for a typical kachin dinner

Better not driving at night...good experience to take a tuk tuk



Some people are not totally convinced by the chop sticks...



And this is the Kachin food

Kachin...the Irrawady

Now after Cambodia and Mongolia a few pics of Kachin, Northern Burma...

The Irrawady river...biggest one in Burma




The bunch from MDM for a farewell




The driver...yes the car is the 4 wheels in the back! I drove it :-)

Toilets in Mongolia...

In this picture you will find the Mongolian toilets....



Ok let me help you...another picture. Did you find the similarity????



Well these were the emrgencies toilets...here are the proper ones!!!

Sand dunes

Don't dream too much...only 3% of the Gobi desert looks like this...

Yes I did milk a goat!!!!

Isn't she cute???



No kidding these hands are mines...




And this what happens to the milk...youghurt!

16 Luglio

Non mi sono dimenticata...in una ger nel desert di Gobi!

Giro Giro Tondo

Maybe I should change work plans and become a kindergarden teacher????

Sinusitis in the desert

It was a bit cold out there sometimes (for my Italian perception)

What do you do when you have a sinusitis in the middle of the desert???




I personally sniff my favourite Burmese stuff ;-) Nothing illegal of course!

Pedras nu caminho...in Mongolia

This is what happens to stones found around out there...

You have to turn around the pile 3 times and each time throw a new stone...
After a while they become real castles...for Buddha in this case!

MONGOLIA the land of the Eternal Blue Sky

Not surprising that Mongolians call the sky the Eternal Blue Sky and place their God right up there. Which such wide spaces you can see the sky all around you. Travelling by 4 wheels (a Russian one...) you always have the sky in front of you...

Have to run for my pedicure, will continue tomorrow ;-)

Inspiration and Perspiration

"Pedras no caminho? Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo..."
Fernando Pessoa

Copied from Menina Azul ;-)
http://meninazul-reciclada.blogspot.com/

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Sakura Towers view in Yangon

Internet connection is so quick and smooth here in Poland that I couldn't resist in downloading a few pics from end of April.
It is not yet the rainy season down there however we had a few major storms and floads around town!
Good to be in a dry environment for a while...
Shwedagon Pagoda before a storm...



Sule Pagoda and downtown...



Inside eating chocolate cake and drinking cappuccino while outside it started raining cats and dogs ;-) After a very hard working week...

Special report from Harm reduction Conference in Warsaw, Poland

What are the differences between a scientific congress and and harm reduction conference?

First of all you see many more men wearing suits that you almost never get a chance to see in a scientific meeting...UNODC (Drug and Crime organization), WHO, policy makers and stakeholders. But you have also dressed down people...NGOs, networker of drug users and other activists!

Political games are at the rendez-vous just as in any conference. While in science you would be fighting for one project here they divide the planet...like this director of a big Institute of harm reduction telling to an UNODC guy: "Sorry man you arrived to late, we got the mission there, no space for UNODC!"

The poster sessions as every where...the ones you want to see are not in front of their posters!

But what is great is that I am going around with a myth of the harm reduction field, the French chairwoman of the Harm reduction network who kindly introduces me to all the other stars. In addition, and as you may know me by now, I am not afraid to introduce myself and ask questions during the sessions...so I have met quite a larger bunch of people, from US, Australia, India, Serbia and of course the Italian network ;-)


N NPL POZDROWIENIA ... should mean something like Greetings ;-)

Motorcycles in Cambodia

Why being two when we can be at least 5 on a motorbike?

Angkor Wat

Genocide

S21 prison
Victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide
What is the world doing for other ongoing genocides?

http://www.genocideintervention.net/index.php
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes

Cambodian Kids

If you go to Cambodia of course you have to visit Angkor but don't forget that 70% of the population is under 18 years old. Check the websites for NGOs to help them, like Friends or Pour un sourire d'enfant. Without these NGOs the risk are prostitution or kids begging in the streets...

For Vanesa ;-)

I haven't seen the famous macaque eating crabs but they do exist! They live in Cambodian's islands and really eat crabs!!! Well I have tasted the crab and it was great, one of the best I have ever eaten around the world.
Love xooxxoo