De tous les voyageurs que j'ai croises au cours de mon periple asiatique, pas un de ceux qui s'etaient rendus au Laos n'a prefere un autre pays que celui la!
Le pouvoir enchanteur de ce pays de sourire et d'hospitalite ne date certainement pas d'hier: c'est deja de la que le parrain de ma mere, meilleur ami de mon grand-pere et qui bourlingua dans toutes les ex-colonies francaises, rapporta ses meilleurs souvenirs.
En decidant d'anticiper mon retour en Europe, j'ai egalement ajourne la decouverte de ce pays. Mais j'aurais tout de meme profite de la venue de ma famille et de notre passage oblige par Udon Tani en Thailande pour pousser jusqu'au mythique Mekong et rejoindre Vientiane, la capitale du Laos, de l'autre cote de la riviere.
Meme si notre sejour n'a pas dure plus d'une journee, la visite de la "Cite de la Lune", ses vielles maisons coloniales et ses temples dont le tres beau "That Luang" nous ont enchantes!
Quelques photos souvenirs d'un jour au Laos.

Seguramente unos volontarios ya os pararon en Plaza Calalunya para pediros se por casualidad teniais ganas de sostener bimbos del tercero mundo. Mi madre, desde hace unos anyos, envia dinero a una asociacion que finanzia proyectos sociales desarrollados en el pueblo donde vive Nud Charee, una pequenya chica tailandese de unos seis anyos.
La venida de mis padres y mi hermana aqui rapresento una buena ocasion para visitar el pueblo y tener una idea mas concreta de los programas desarrollados por la asociacion. Esta visita nos encanto realmente! Nud Charee, su familla, los abitantes del pueblo, todos nos acogeron tan bien! Los tailandeses siempre han sideo muy carinyos con nosotros, aqui quizas aun mas!
Tambien fue una buena oportunidad para llegar a un sitio lejos de las solitas rutas turisticas, un lugar donde nunca habriamos llegdo sin esta razon. Los chicos de la escuela como unos adultos del pueblo nunca habian visto "farengs", es decir estranjeros, de todo su vida!
Un dia memorable!

There is no need to stay long in Thailand to notice that one person every three bears a yellow T–shirt. When moving from one place to one other, you soon realize too that yellow is not only the uniform of a given school or bus company. The feeling that yellow deals with King’s matter is confirmed when you can get a little closer and read the words “WE LOVE OUR KING” written with small letters on the T-shirt, exactly where the heart is beating,
When I asked to Pitak, our guide during the safari at the Um Phang Park, the reason of the yellow color, he explained me that their King was born a Monday, which is associated to the yellow color. Curious to know whether it was a tradition to dress with the color of the weekday the King was born or if it was specific to the current King, I asked what color will Thai people bear as the reign of the king’s successor will begin. Pitak eluded my question, answering that Thai people does not like the prince, which is said to be a “Playboy”. So I asked what was the color associated to the day the prince was born, but Pitak said “Really, we love our King and we do not want him to die”.
I did not insist. Actually, I asked the wrong question: I should have asked for the color of the previous ruler, the King’s father…

Qualche settimana fa, ho letto nella stampa francese che il governo e la societa italiana sembrano concordare sul fatto che il tempo dei fannulloni che non rendono l'administrazione del bel paese piu efficiente ormai e passato. A coloro che criticano di piu la burocrazia italiana, vorrei regalare questa foto, scattata il giorno stesso in cui ho letto il detto articolo.

In Thailandia, l'administrazione sembra talmente corrotta che qui, "Italian Managment" suona come un label di qualita! Cosi, dopo le scarpe, il cibo ed il calcio, ecco l'ultimo nato della grande famiglia "Made in Italy" ;)

Bueno raggazzi, senza che nessuno se la prende, era solo motivo per scherzzare, ok?