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Yes, yes, still China, and i love it!
Time flies and the weeks are added one after another, leaving wonderful memories, emotions and much more difficult to define, and every day the world 'on my palm!
In these other two months we must stop looking for answers and definitions on this country, let's just live it and the conclusions at the end, which sounds much more 'logical!
So we were left in Chengdu, China another huge megalopolis, but much better in Xian, at least here I saw the sun! Some immigrants and chat with the locals, very open-minded and decidedly outside the usual patterns seen so far, everything is' as possible!
Just buses, the new way to shoot in the city 'and electric scooters to scrounge steps: zero pollution, a few words in Chinese and so on, we cross the city to the next traffic light, then under another! Big laughs and ubiquitous'!
But the big city ', at least in China, it turns out that you can not wait to leave behind and go round in search of less Chinese and more' adventures, in the south, next stop Leshan: l ' 70 meters high and huge Buddha 'attraction, but to stay on campus, causing an uproar among students and scaling the walls of the temple and evading the guards and the cameras' was the adventure, adrenaline and a few scratches but especially my little revenge against the regime!
But the best is yet to come: Gonggar Shan, mountain high 7500, at the eastern Tibetan Plateau, with glaciers reaching down to 4000, there I was with a Chinese borrowed to walk on it, trying not to remain in a crevasse and hoping to be able to see the top, perpetually cloudy.
In fact, after hours of walking in the ice by jumping here and there to the summit the clouds ... that du maron two days that I'm here you can not do this to me god of the mountain ...
But the Chinese friend makes with joined hands reciting the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum", imitates him full of hope: the prick all over Tibet and 'with me c'mon, c'mon .... after 15 minutes of prayer with my eyes closed the crazy Chinese rejoices "Gonggar Shaaaaaan "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Clouds slowly open the top and there before my eyes!
Like two idiots to jump on the ice, singing and rejoicing, and for the first time since the first communion I have prayed and worked, and it scares me much!
alone to contemplate for a while eating stale cookies, then greetings to the village at the foot of the mountain and away, first on a concrete mixer autostopping then two unfortunates who were traveling in motion with amplifiers on the shoulders, shoulder electric guitars and microphones working! Well, these Chinese
... And here I am in Litang, Tibetan area, is not 'officially but the population and Tibet' Tibetan 99% (a little ' as in Bolzano in Italy but they are all six Krauts), a beautiful village in a beautiful landscape with beautiful people, smiling peasants and beautiful children I decided that before I want to conceive a photograph everyone in the world!
I spent two weeks between Litang and Dali as well as a valid travel companion French, a great friend, villages and monasteries tractors and riding scooters, and for two weeks I was in China, I was in limbo in the sunny high altitude, all those different people and those fantastic landscapes!
The only clouds I've seen in Deqin, elevation 4000, and will more than clouds: snow storm!
By bus it took 6 hours to make a hundred kilometers to Zhongdian (Shangri-la), but after 5 hours we were trapped at 10 km from start to shovel snow to replace the bus lane, panic!
Equipped with gloves laundress at the foot trying not frost, I had the brainwave to send fuck off the bus and jump on a 4x4 in a couple of hours brought me out of cold and the frost! Ass rescued and hot tea that warms the throat and feet, and of mountains I've had enough!
Shangri-La and Lijiang in Yunnan Province, are citadels Belline iperturistiche but with beautiful scenery in the area but clouded by bad weather, then a bit of rest and chat with many other backpackers and foreigners and Chinese, yeah Sometimes is nice to Have a rest.
then slowly leaves the Tibetan area and enter the heart of Yunnan, where the mentality 'and nature become more and more' south-east Asia, there are a lot of nationalities' diverse and all, and 'much more' exotic, palm trees and bamboo canes to go goo.
arrived in Dali unaware of what 'waiting for me: a beautiful and peaceful old town, surrounded by walls, by a lake to the east and west by a mountain, as in microecosistema subsidiary. In
Dali live several local people, some stranger looking for relaxation, and artists fleeing the chaotic Beijing: Why '? Why
'plants growing along roadsides of Ganja! then I was in Amsterdam a little Chinese waaay more 'polleggiata, shawls and pergiunta smazzante!
I took advantage of bad, take 2 weeks of leave on this journey together with a bunch of Japanese hyppies I did my first performance of juggling in the street, pagandomi dinner and learning to walk on the rope like a tightrope walker! Ah Ah Ah!
Bonghi women juggling guitars digiridoo spliffs and time flies, great week!
One day I had the bright idea to climb a small mountain with a bicycle on his shoulders, the lungs in 3 hours with hands and tongue to the floor, really: I thought I would not make it ... with difficulty but then I saw, perhaps deluded, the source of a river and a path leading to the valley, salvation! A bit of relaxation under the roar of the waterfall mega down and then no brakes on the gravel, half an hour at sunset in fast-paced downhill like a fool, yeah sbraniamola fuck this life!
Uh, how many stories! And a Sunday night, cradled in space cake and Japanese electronic music, I get the draft to learn kung fu! Kung fu? Fuck do I care? I did and let's try!
7 days to clean interior: no vices, vegan food, jogging at dawn and 6 hours of daily exercises fucked in a monastery in the mountains with stunning views lago.Lontano from everything and there is cleaned internally and all you learn to handle all the energy you have. Ok not everything, say 5%. But me and 'enough, a bit' like Karate Kid: from the wax, remove wax ... power and 'in my hands!
Ok, good, now we leave: 2 weeks more to spend, and I decided to spend them on the road, like the old days: thumbs up and away to the south.
Trucks, vans, 4x4, SUV and sports deluxe made in China have brought me before in Dehong, a stone's throw from Burma, and I've still heard the call for the mountains (bastaaa!): once again after 30 seconds I'm way, bravo coglione!
I found myself at the foot of the mountain with muddy feet and decide which side to climb to 4 hands, "when in doubt go left," he said at the airport ... barely arrived on the top I saw the monastery where I was sleeping, sin that was in the other mountain! Bravo fool!
Eventually I did, get Straddle Up and the other side, in time for the rags with Daoist monks, and my Chinese is definitely improving!
"Ua Sh IDALIDA" Yes, I am Italian, though it seems!
Then I literally walked on the border, the dilation 'of the bridge was in Burma I chimeras, but red tape has prevented me from crossing it, but I'll just make', Burma remains the goal, especially after an encounter with a family Indians-burmesi too far: they spoke to me in the third person rather than "Do you want coffee?" I asked "This brother wants coffee?" Number 1.
Then: afternoon spent drinking vodka Chinese with off-duty policemen who escorted me home with a police van, 1000 steps with 1000 cinesotti funny guys, a day spent with a film crew and actors who turned a movie (terrible) on the battles of the Chinese Communist Party against the "Japanese aggressors" (in the 'iphone icons stand out actor customized Mao!) trip to the rolling hills shaped cake and photonics in a cave with stalactites and then lights and shadows, arrived in this tiny country with no name, I found myself in the middle in dancing girls dressed in fluorescent yellow and drum roll, I thought it was a marriage or similar, I eventually discovered it was a funeral ... but the crowd seemed more 'interested in me that the ritual mah ...
And here I am in Xishuangbanna, far south, a land of elephants, but unfortunately 'I have to run, my visa expires tomorrow, oh yes, and' Time to move air. The
sorteggione wished that the next destination is .... Laos!
So, barring unforeseen circumstances, the next day I set sail on the Mekong and start a new adventure: South-east Asia!
Goodbye China, world of calculators, speakers, neon lights, ugly buildings, tiled pool, a process for each village, hot meals so that in the end you feel like a fire-breathing dragon, hectoliters of the 'boiling water, toilet paper on the tables instead of napkins, Bonton office fuck, people smiling, goes, that spitting, smoking, shouting, playful children, crying babies in my view, many, beautiful dams (in China there 's a lot of dam!), mountains, mists, smog masks, electric scooters, carts, decrepit, suv aircon minibus, martial arts, communism, capitalism, Buddhism, atheism, Daoism, psychological terror, and much, too much.
The only regret and 'have not had time to tattoo my name in Chinese on the biceps, a good reason to come back!
In China I have coined my first two aphorisms (!), Modifying some already existing
Skeggiotti Aphorisms:
1 - No matter where you arrive, but where shares
2 - I'm not looking for myself but the rest
solution enigmatic and metaphorical you the savings, you can ponder if you will, say that in both the end and beginning are connected in a circular process, metaphysical but basically simple and straightforward: do not forget your roots and keep your eyes wide open ...
Finally, to close this pedantic vein, let me say one thing, frankly speaking I have the whole world that are certainly not the first to say they do it, but if you have something that will blend in mind, projects or crazy ideas ... if you want to travel around the world or start a family, send everyone to fuck off or stand in politics, open to the North Pole or an ice cream shop in the Sahara sun, Believe it: do not let the fear you fuck like a slut or that time will crumble like a statue, and everything 'possible, really, just wanting to.
For my part I believe and I hope to have realized in time, both in front of a monitor that render lobotomized by a Tibetan in a cart to chase the sun trying to squeeze and make it my own, which continues this great Bazza, changes and surprises , goes round and round: life.
If you want everything to remain exactly as is ', well it would be nice, but that' the toughest challenge ... Good luck!
absolute relativism of the new millennium brothers!
Xie Xie China, fuck you all!
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