fragrant vagrants: What is left of the Vietnam war

Monday, February 20, 2006

What is left of the Vietnam war

An unexploded mortar shell surrounded by stones on the site of the Khesan Fire base in the west of the former DMZ. Khesan offensive drew American forces away from the intended targets of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive. All that is here now is a Coffee plantation and a museum of war detritus. We didnt go to the museum but had walk around the site. Khesan saw some of the fiercest and most intense fighting of the war. Our guide told us that veterans who come here to look on where hell on earth was for them 30 years ago are shocked to find nothing, no trace of that titanic struggle. No markers beyond the museum. The carnage subsumed by the highland scrub and coffee plants. It almost feels as if someone in the museum left this shell here, so that Veterans can gather round it , something tangible of the danger they lived through. In that, the marker stones placed there are more than just a warning, they are rememberances of the time they lived through as well.

// posted by Solène @ Monday, February 20, 2006

Comments:

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fragrant vagrants

Monday, February 20, 2006

What is left of the Vietnam war

Contributors

where we've been - ou nous sommes alles:

France (Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille, Corse)

Italia (Rome, Napoli, Salerno, Siracusa, Palermo, Aeolian Islands, Taormina, Bari)

Malta (Valetta, Zebbug, Gozo)

Greece (Ioannina, Metsovo, Meteora/Kalambaka, Volos, Delphi, Athens, Syros, Naxos, Amorgos, Rodos)

Turkey (Marmaris, Silifke, Taşuçu, Göreme, Ihlara, Güzelyurt, Şanliurfa, Mardin, Hasankeyf, Tatvan, Van, Doğubayazıt, Kars)

Cyprus (North and South)

Armenia (Yerevan, Sisian, Tatev, Sevan, Dilijian, Vanadzor, Alaverdi)

Georgia (Tbilisi, Davit Gareji, Kasbegi, Gori, Batumi)

Russia (Sochi, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk, Khuzhir, Ulan Ude, Vladivostok)

South Korea (Busan, Gwangju, Gyeongju, Seoul)

China (Beijing, Xian, Chongqin, Wuhan, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Shenzhen, Yangshuo, Nanning)

Hong Kong

Macau

Vietnam (Hanoi, Bac Ha, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Saigon, Ben Tre)

Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kratie)

Laos (Don Dhet, Tad Lo, Thakhek, Vientiane, Luang prabang, Luang Namtha)

Thailand (Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Lo Lipe)

Malaisia (Penang, Kuala Lumpur)

Singapour

links - liens

vignettes:

hospitality networks - reseaux d'hebergement:

you can host fellow travellers? you might find a couch to sleep on in China - vous pouvez heberger des voyageurs? vous trouverez peut etre un sofa sur lequel dormir en Chine

maps... so that we know where we are - cartes... pour savoir ou nous sommes:

artists friends - amis artistes:

fellow travellers - voyageurs:

plus

food highlights - delices culinaires:

Gianluca's pike cooked with garlic and porcini mushrooms in Vietri - le brochet aux champignons porcini de Gianluca a Vietri

Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Turkish coffee - cafe grec, armenien, ge n et turc

Turkish mantı: small fresh meat and herbs raviolis served in a yoghurt sauce - manti turc: pe raviolis frais a la viande et aux herbes servis dans une sauce au yaourt

an Armenian salad: sliced mushrooms, onions and gerkins with a lot of dill: amazingly fresh and light - une salade armenienne: champignons de Paris, oignons et cor eminces avec plein d'aneth: fraiche et legere

Armenian sour cream, as simple as that - creme fraiche armenienne, tout simplement: veloutee et epaisse comme les meilleurs fromages blancs

Georgian khinkali: big spicy meat dumplings - khinkali ge ns: gros raviolis de viande epicee

Georgian badridzhani: aubergines slices and fried with a nut and garlic spread - badridzhani ge ns: aubergines coupees en longues tranches et frites, couvertes d'une pate aux noix et a l'ail

Russian porridge, they really know how to make it - porridge russe, cremeux, doux, parfait

a Russian cold soup: kvas (drink made of fermented bread and water), stock, cream, cubes of ham, cucumber, potatoes, spring onion and dill - une soupe froide russe: kvas (boisson a base de pain et d'eau fermentes), bouillon, creme, jambon, concombre et pommes de terre en cube, ciboulette, aneth

sushi, sashimi etc

okonomiyaki

Korean food generally, the diversity is just amazing , from spicy to mild, plain, complex and so on - cuisine coreenne, toute entiere; sa diversite est incroyable

a Korean tea: basically marmelade and boiling water - une tisane coreenne: en gros, de la marmelade dans de l'eau bouillante

Korean bibimpbap: rice topped with anything you can find, sesame oil and chili sauce; basic and great - bibimbap coreen: riz et a peu pres tout ce que vous pouvez imaginer, evec une dose d'huile de sesame et de la sauce pimentee

a soup in Macau: fish stock an soya milk with bread, white fish flesh and chives tiny burgers - soupe de Macau: bouillon de poisson, lait de soja et petits passes de mie de pain, poisson blanc et ciboulette

beer fish in Yangshuo, China: river fish cooked in beer with ginger, garlic, tomatoes, green pepers and spring onions - poisson a la biere de yangshuo: poisson de riviere cuit dans de la biere avec du gingembre, de l'ail, des tomates, des poivrons verts et des oignons nouveaux

Amok: an amazing cambodian fish coconut curry - Amok: un curry cambodgien delicieux, au poisson et a la noix de coco

lap, Lao national dish: ground white meat or fish with lime, salt, chili, spring onions and sometimes mint - lap, le plat national laotien: viande blanche ou poisson hache avec jus de lime, sel, piment, onions nouveaux et parfois menthe

books - livres:

In the empire of Genghis Khan; a journey Amongst Nomads by Stanley Stewart - travels on horseback in Mongolia. Nice, funny and inspiring

What is Orthodoxy? - bought in the Varlaam monastery; basically why the Pope will burn in hell and there is no salvation out of orthodoxy. Oh, and other stuff as well like whether Christ was divine AND human at the same time or not, and why Peter WASN'T the favorite apostle

Amongst the believers: an Islamic journey by VS Naipaul - a journey in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the 80s, when islamic Iran and Pakistan were still new and to be built

Granta 84 "Over there: how America sees the world" - if you don't know Granta yet, try to get hold of one... new writing, art, photo...

Granta 64 "Russia: the Wild East"

Amongst the Russians by Colin Thubron - a journey in communist USSR in the 80's

I am a cat by Natsume Soseki

Harry Potter 1, 2 , 3...

A widow for a year by John Irving

Le portail de Francois Bizot - le Cambodge avant les Khmers Rouges, Duch, la prise de Phnom Penh... un recit autobiographique fascinant et terrifiant

The sorrow of war by Bao Ninh - Vietnam war from the Vietanmese side, what war does to a country and its youth

wildlife - nature:

legless lizard in Greece - lezard sans pattes en Grece

vultures in Paros - vautours a Paros

turtles, snakes, fruit bats in Cyprus - tortues marines, serpents et chauve-souris a Chypre

eagles and storkes in Turkey - aigles et cigognes en Turquie

camels, reindeer, eagles and monkeys in Russia; well, not quite wild... - chameaux, reines, aigles et singes en Russie; bon, pas vraiment sauvages...

cranes, kites, insects, jumping fish, salmon, dears, bears, tanuki(dog racoons) in Japan - grues, milans, insectes, poissons sauteurs, saumons, daims, ours, tanuki au Japon

thousands of geese in the Korean DMZ - milliers d'oies sauvages dans la zone demilitarisee coreenne

monkeys in the Three Gorges in China - singes dans les Tois Gorges du Yangzi en CHine

gekkos in Vietnam and Cambodia, clinging to any vertical surface - gekkos au Vietnam et au Cambodge

monkeys near Angkor

dolphins in Cambodia, in the Mekong - dauphins au Cambodge dans le Mekong

tamed elephants in Cambodia and Laos - elephants apprivoises au Cambodge et au Laos

fish and sea eagles in Thailand

monkeys in Kuala Lumpur

most useful - plus utile:

a compass for when we are really lost and have no clue which way the map is meant to be - une boussole pour quand nous sommes completement perdus et n'avons aucune idee de l'orientation de notre plan