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Good morning Vietnam was the title of an acclaimed American film that immortalized the good of Robin Williams. Vietnam is a country that is inevitably linked to the memory of that tragic war with the United States, and perhaps it is a country about which we have heard on many more occasions than any of its neighbors in Southeast Asia.
Words like Vietcong or Charlie are not unknown to the average Spaniard, though that ancient Indochina left us in the ass of the world, but we know the power of the cinema and the influence of the Yankees on us all.
Those were very hard times during the Cold War, what happened there is part of the American trauma at being defeated by the elusive and seasoned soldiers / peasants of that distant China. Vietnam is a name that evokes too much, and that that country has been impregnated and conflict in the cinema and Hollywood like few other places on earth.
Vietnam is why we had a place of reference for small and distorted it was, and that before walking as a traveler, there were many movies and series on views that sad race war. Having been twice to the country I inevitably come to mind memories of my travels, but also mythical legendary films as "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket" or "Apocalypse Now".
In those decades of the sixties and seventies, Paris lived its golden May 68 and from London out of a traveling caravan whose fate was a mythologized Asia . Were times when many young people lived Western and l hippie dream traveling East to meet cultures, smells, aromas, experiences and people of mythologized places like the beaches of Goa in India or Nepal Katamandú. Those were fighting for utopia among the pleasures of free sex, drugs and rock and roll good background. But it was also a time of blood, pain and tears for others, such as ending in a distant Indochina was a slaughterhouse for hundreds of thousands of human beings, both Vietnamese and American .
In the jungles of Vietnam, in their rice paddies, in the villages and in the cities a war that is part of the history of the twentieth century and the power games that were up to the United States took place, the Soviet Union and nearby China.
That time seems extremely distant time, but just half a century has elapsed. The world has changed much in a few decades, the Soviet Union is no more, China has gone from being a Third World to become the second largest economy in the world country, Vietnam has become an emerging country that is part of the tourist destination of choice both by wedding couples as Western backpackers.
When you think of all this you realize that time flies and swings that gives us the world in a couple of generations. Although today all that seems far away, there is nothing more fascinating than go to Vietnam as a destination with a good history book to understand something of what that was until recently too.
Vietnam was also a turning point for my special trip around the world. And it is that during that trip, both my brother and another friend of Oviedo joined me and me to travel from south to north through the country.
At that time I came to Ho Chi Minh overland from Cambodia six months of travel in the backpack, and now instead I did by plane from Shanghai on a business trip. Two trips separated by time and have allowed me to return to this fascinating country.
Breakfast each day while I remember the unavoidable Good Morning Vietnam, but also look back and I can see the inexorable passage of time. In the mirror of life and I can see my face six intense years with everything done, seen and felt, but also with the change in the country after my first visit.
Six are almost nothing, but in Asia lately changes occur too quickly. Now back to a city that still many remember and call them by name Saigon, a the local Ho Chi Minh is perhaps too complex much more cinematic and literary name.
I am soaking in sweat awake and find myself on the table with his tie aside and bermudas other. Still asleep I look in the mirror and think of the six years, and while on the road I can feel the sound of roaring motorcycles continues as ever in Saigon ...
Good morning Vietnam was the title of an acclaimed American film that immortalized the good of Robin Williams. Vietnam is a country that is inevitably linked to the memory of that tragic war with the United States, and perhaps it is a country about which we have heard on many more occasions than any of its neighbors in Southeast Asia.
Words like Vietcong or Charlie are not unknown to the average Spaniard, though that ancient Indochina left us in the ass of the world, but we know the power of the cinema and the influence of the Yankees on us all.
Those were very hard times during the Cold War, what happened there is part of the American trauma at being defeated by the elusive and seasoned soldiers / peasants of that distant China. Vietnam is a name that evokes too much, and that that country has been impregnated and conflict in the cinema and Hollywood like few other places on earth.
Vietnam is why we had a place of reference for small and distorted it was, and that before walking as a traveler, there were many movies and series on views that sad race war. Having been twice to the country I inevitably come to mind memories of my travels, but also mythical legendary films as "Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket" or "Apocalypse Now".
In those decades of the sixties and seventies, Paris lived its golden May 68 and from London out of a traveling caravan whose fate was a mythologized Asia . Were times when many young people lived Western and l hippie dream traveling East to meet cultures, smells, aromas, experiences and people of mythologized places like the beaches of Goa in India or Nepal Katamandú. Those were fighting for utopia among the pleasures of free sex, drugs and rock and roll good background. But it was also a time of blood, pain and tears for others, such as ending in a distant Indochina was a slaughterhouse for hundreds of thousands of human beings, both Vietnamese and American .
In the jungles of Vietnam, in their rice paddies, in the villages and in the cities a war that is part of the history of the twentieth century and the power games that were up to the United States took place, the Soviet Union and nearby China.
That time seems extremely distant time, but just half a century has elapsed. The world has changed much in a few decades, the Soviet Union is no more, China has gone from being a Third World to become the second largest economy in the world country, Vietnam has become an emerging country that is part of the tourist destination of choice both by wedding couples as Western backpackers.
When you think of all this you realize that time flies and swings that gives us the world in a couple of generations. Although today all that seems far away, there is nothing more fascinating than go to Vietnam as a destination with a good history book to understand something of what that was until recently too.
Vietnam was also a turning point for my special trip around the world. And it is that during that trip, both my brother and another friend of Oviedo joined me and me to travel from south to north through the country.
At that time I came to Ho Chi Minh overland from Cambodia six months of travel in the backpack, and now instead I did by plane from Shanghai on a business trip. Two trips separated by time and have allowed me to return to this fascinating country.
Breakfast each day while I remember the unavoidable Good Morning Vietnam, but also look back and I can see the inexorable passage of time. In the mirror of life and I can see my face six intense years with everything done, seen and felt, but also with the change in the country after my first visit.
Six are almost nothing, but in Asia lately changes occur too quickly. Now back to a city that still many remember and call them by name Saigon, a the local Ho Chi Minh is perhaps too complex much more cinematic and literary name.
I am soaking in sweat awake and find myself on the table with his tie aside and bermudas other. Still asleep I look in the mirror and think of the six years, and while on the road I can feel the sound of roaring motorcycles continues as ever in Saigon ...
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