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Change of itinerary

Hello everyone!

We are writing this time not to describe what we see or live but you report a change of route from what we originally planned.
When we were in Phnom Penh, we took the opportunity to make our visa applications to the Chinese embassy. To our surprise we will not give us a Chinese visa. We were then told to go try our luck at the Chinese embassy in Bangkok in principle more flexible. We went back to Bangkok to make our request. There, we also refused to give us our Chinese visa. Reason? China closes now its doors to any backpacker traveling on a date too close to the Olympic Games (our case because we wanted to go to China in July just before the games), especially if s acts french backpackers. The Chinese government is indeed concerned that there be demonstrations or other events of this kind.
The only visitors permitted to enter the country are people who travel in organized tour from A to Z. ..
So we first of all, try to see if it was possible to extend our Vietnamese visa (which expired early July) this was what we were told that C was impossible.
We then tried to change our ticket home, telling us that we get back so regretfully one month earlier, but this operation would have cost us over 1500 euros, so we gave up.
We then plans to go to Vietnam and then in another country and then reach Beijing at the last moment to catch our flight but it came back to take a plane ticket from Bangkok to Vietnam and Vietnam has another country and finally this country in Beijing. The fees also were too high (over 1200 euros). We
donations opts for a radical change of course. So we return towards Malaysia, yes it has been there but consoled himself by saying that it was not seen everything yet! Finally we return to a plane in Singapore at the last moment to join our original flight from Beijing.
So here for the latest news.
In addition, the school is almost over we will definitely make this blog less often that day before. Indeed it takes us a very long time (several hours per week) and is also a certain budget. However we metterons course all up to date on our return.
Thank you all still follow us in our journey, was soon
(return approach ..) and Gwen
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Cambodia is an amazing country, its people have suffered enormously his last years he suffered again and yet its population is in the whole dynamic and extremely cheerful. Indeed, the Cambodians have chained several dark period, when civil war the war in Vietnam (the country was divided between those who supported the Americans and those who were for the Vietnamese) and the infamous Khmer Rouge period. The population is currently extremely poor al (Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world), corruption reigns in the country, there are still areas not cleared as in Laos, so the bombs continue to wreak havoc every year and these accidents are increasing from year to year the number of maimed in the country, the streets of major cities such as Phnom Penh are filled with orphaned children often living on the street, begging to meet their needs, search the bins for find something to eat or pick up objects in plastic then sell them to companies that recycle all this. Despite
just as I told you the the population is incredibly cheerful, dynamic, there are hundreds of examples of incredible journey of people who have managed to get out, and especially lots of local associations which add s international humanitarian organizations who do a fantastic job. (In parentheses Cambodia is a country in which there is more humanitarian, more than 20,000 in all!)
Our stay in this country has not, therefore always been the moral obvious (not obvious to discover in more the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, for example) but despite all we had a very good month and we draw lessons from best Life! Hope for this country and its people than the situation improves s!

First of all, we pass the border at Poipet, a town fearful, imagine the context of dozens of casinos all more beautiful, larger and more luxurious than each other in the streets and hundreds of beggars, mostly children ragged, extremely dirty, mafia everywhere, women pushing carts filled with more than each other dune border to another, and by way of gravel roads and mud out of sight.
Obviously we're eager to continue our path and go directly to Phnom Penh. We stayed a few days in the capital s time to adapt to new rules of this country, including traffic regulations that de facto limited to: There are not many rules! We take this opportunity to visit a little town: the royal palace (since there is a king in Cambodia), the genocide museum located in a former Khmer Rouge prison where photos can be seen as instruments of torture etc., horribly difficult ! some temples, the colonial district, and we also went to see two films on Cambodia, the first on the Khmer Rouge period and the second on mines in Cambodia and their damage. Very poignant! Traffic is crazy in this town, a real anthill, people are very poor there enormemement motorcycles or bicycles on the roads people can not afford to buy a car. The extremes are clearly visible and therefore shocking, we can regularly see children sleeping in the street and just next to a Mercedes go ... But here, no huge shopping malls like in Thailand despite the existence of a leisure class . Phnom Penh is a city extremely dynamic, lots of things are permanently organized exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, etc..
We went a few days in Sihanoukville, a seaside city in the south, the lower we mainly been marked by dozens of children who spend their mornings and after school al noon on the beach selling things. These children have a timetable but not incredibly dependent once we heard a complaint. They are incredibly resourceful and intelligent, they have an amazing level of English when we consider that they learn through the tourists! They keep joking and tourists to defy any kind of games, saying that, if they lose they must buy them something. The challenges are all kinds of games, speed, reflection, general culture as the capitals of countries, for example ... So amazing!
We then went to Kampot colonial city, today a quiet little town, clean, on a river. The city is beautiful and very alive: No we have constantly come across organizations or sports events of all kinds: athletics, basketball, football, volleyball, etc.. We also visited the region, including the surrounding countryside or you can see rice fields out of sight, pepper plantations (Kampot pepper is deemed internationally), and salt marshes. We went for a ride to the town of Kep, old seaside villas for the rich, completely abandoned during the Khmer Rouge, we can observe today a lot of beautiful buildings in ruins, some of them being inhabited by families extremely poor who are trying somehow s house. People have come here regularly recommmencent we can observe Khmer picnic or come across to the beach every weekend but not everyone lives n in the reality. We take this opportunity to visit the famous march to the crustaceans of Kep and enjoy an excellent crab pepper.
We also alles in Bokor National Park, at the top of the mountains, see an old station altitude created by the french, it also completely abandoned during the Khmer Rouge. That day there was thick fog everywhere, c was very strange to walk among all these abandoned buildings in ruins, a true ghost town, a real film set!
Before leaving Kampot We also went to visit a school run by the association Khrousar Thmey. The humanitarian organization in question is intended to educate the deaf and blind in the country, c is the only association have to take care of that audience. In Cambodia, people believe that we have several lives, all our actions, good or bad condition the next life, the goal being to earn the maximum good deeds for one day to reach nirvana and then finally stop the cycle of life . For the Khmer fact have a child who is blind or deaf or disabled means that we have done wrong in his previous life and therefore that we "pay" in this life. And c is not only a shame for them, so they try to hide most often these children but there s nothing more to do except to behave in this life and await the next life. The mission of this association is not obvious n at all because it goes against local customs al. They need plus a minimum of equipment to carry out their missions, including Braille books, teachers who can speak sign language etc ... This meeting was amazing!

We then returned to Phnom Penh where we spent the majority of our time to visit all humanitarian organizations as remarkable as each other. No unfortunately we have not much time to talk about today because our time is limited on the internet but we intend to remedy it as soon as we get home and we will make the blog date!
Here are just a few names and words
- the association friends (or Friends International): n occupies the Taking street children orphans, they are weaned s drug (Often the case ...), accommodation and feed them, give them a level and into school. The partner has also created its vocational programs for refugees (mechanics, hairdressing, aesthetics, food, electronics ...) so that they can leave with practical training in your pocket immediately exploitable, it also helps them find jobs. L s assoc holds also train mothers of street children who are lucky enough to have relatives still has a trade practice as a seamstress by example and helps them find a job behind in exchange for what moms s commit to educate their children .
- the association "For a child smile" has the same overall objectives and the same field of action, but it works with children working in the municipal landfill (they spend their days alone for orphans or accompanied by their parents collect and sort plastic, wood etc and then sell it all).
total there are 20,000 street children in Phnom Penh, these two associations has come to support about 5,000 of them every day, see the work that remains to be done ...
- SIPAR, the humanitarian group aims to promote the creation (story, graphics, layout) and the publication of books in Khmer. Indeed, al Khmer Rouge all that closely or remotely to the culture was destroyed, after this sad period there remained not masses of resources to the few who had the chance to be letter. The objective of this assoc is to develop reading in the country and thus support the education effort. To achieve the assoc created especially school libraries or as bookmobiles that circulate in the villages.

We then went to spend a few days in a small village, Kompong Chnang, a village in Tonle Sap Lake, which has the particularity to be floating! The houses, shops, garages, schools are floating! C is an awesome show! C was much more fun than this is not a tourist place at all, no one spoke English, but then everyone was watching us with curiosity, the children followed us running to say hello in Khmer They burst out laughing that they took photographs and that they then showed their heads. A great time!

We then went to Battambang, a town farther north. The lower we visit other temples and markets, another school of khrousar Thmey which we talked about earlier, we had the chance to attend a course of aerobics outdoors in a park, very nice and we did our most beautiful boat trip to go up in Siem Reap along the Tonle Sap to admire the many birds and fish, there are even crocodiles but we only saw in a cage (this tells the kids swim in the lake without problem in their place ... I m worried!) and very many floating villages! A long journey but super nice ...

Finally we spent a week in Siem Reap, where we visited a few schools and spends the rest of our time to visit the famous temples of Angkor! What a pity that there is so many people, so many vendors who harass you until in temples! Despite all this remains a magical place, awesome ...
We also saw a dance very well: cultural week!

Bre resume in a very good month goes Cambodia, full of encounters and beautiful scenery!

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Cambodia Cambodia: The school.

L School in Cambodia ...
Where to start? Nothing is clear or identical from one city to another, each adapting the basic system has its own way, so tough you clearly describe all this! Well then first of all, children from primary school have al school Monday to Saturday morning, the children have generally only Sunday to rest, I generally accurate because in some schools, they don not have classes on Thursday as well. Officially they have classes all day but during the after noon like in reality has more support classes, the majority of children will therefore underway that morning, the school n is not required here anyway.
In Cambodia, unfortunately, many children work, they are certainly less likely to work in factories because the regulation becomes more stringent over the cons are crossed by very regular street children now sell all sorts of things. Thus Sihanoukville eg balneaire tourist town in the south, al school children attend the morning, eat something quickly pick up their goods for sale at home and then spend the after noon at the beach trying to sell a bunch things to tourists (bracelets and other jewelry that they manufacture themselves, scarves, fruits, some girls of ten years even offer the same services than their elders to learn hair removal, massage, manicure / pedicure). So they return home late at night and have had that moment to help their parents with chores, making bracelets for those who sell and of course homework.

Regarding the holidays, we were certifies that Cambodia is the country where children are more holidays in the world and that in order to prevent children deserted the school too (c unofficially give them a maximum of free time to let them work and thus enable them to go at the same school al.), they in effect three months of the summer vacation of ROW, when the monsoon season, not counting a few weeks here and there, for Khmer New Year in particular.

As in many countries of Asia there are two types of school as widespread as the one the other: private schools and public schools. The two types of school are secular. The private schools charge fees, parents must pay a monthly sum al school. Cote staffing and equipment of this type school looks to ours, they are also of generally held by a foreigner, expatriate and c is often in these schools that the children of expatriates will. Classes are held in English and rated programs these schools have to follow the national curriculum defined by the state but have the permission to add material (for example English, sport or art are not signs in public) or to broaden the program (eg history or geo). The teachers of these schools are fairly well paid. In public schools
cons by the conditions of teaching and learning are not the same. Rating of staff first, instead of being about 30 students per class as in the private one located within 50 to 100 students per class depending on the schools. No rating equipment these schools have generally not much except painting, chalk, paper, pens. No teachers were not always available educational resources for two reasons, one being that books are expensive, the second being that there is little in Khmer, or all teachers especially in public does not speak English. State schools are supposed to be free but in reality they are paying informally. The teachers of the public are indeed very poorly paid (20 to 30 dollars per month in private wages rise to 150 to 200 dollars per month) and therefore require additional salary unofficial from parents, they must So pay 500 riels per day (equivalent to 4,000 riels a dollar) per child for the teacher s occupies the child, if the sum is not paid the teacher simply ignores the pupil, and in a class of 90 students it is easily drowned in the mass. Teachers are also pay for photocopies that they distribute (and in the secondary almost all courses are in the form of photocopies). In addition, papers distributed during exams to pass from one class to another are also paying if you do not pay the teacher does not distribute paper and the pupil to zero. The tutoring I told you about that after noon the place is regarded as a hand, if the child wants to attend must therefore pay a supplement.

In both types of school, the wearing of uniform is required (often high white shirt and blue socks, trousers for boys, skirts for girls), and the hygiene of children is controlled regulieremment (teeth cleaned, nails cut, etc. .) If children are not dressed properly or s are not impeccable the teacher taps the tips of their fingers with a ruler, square iron, it is the same whether the child is questioned and is wrong or does not know well his lesson. No law allows teachers has not hit the children but in reality c is a fact accepted from the time the child or had "merit".

In both types of school there is only one teacher per class that teaches all the materials (though there are Sometimes a teacher has to teach English part in private schools whose teaching is exempt in Khmer). In public schools the subjects taught are: social (this includes moral education, history, geography ...), science, literature, Khmer, mathematics. In private schools are added generally sport, art, English, computer sometimes.

Whatever the school, there is no canteen. All children come into effect at noon to eat at home, the few remaining al school lunch and after the principals would not have time to go home at lunch to buy something from street vendors and then eat in their classrooms.

As in Laos, the children were very little personal equipment, textbooks and school owned al are ready for a year (although there are usually one textbook for 4 to 8 students on average), then that they have no one or two pens, one or two books, a ruler, eraser and tidy all in a plastic bag.


here an example of uniform girl version.

A school or rather the hallway outside of ecole.Vous can see the bikes in front ranges.

The well of the school which children will draw the water here boils down to the toilet a hole way Turkish bath and poured a bucket of water in to flush with water, not tap so.

Here is the front of the school, you can see the roofs, sheet metal, which give you an idea of the state of the remaining buildings.

A book of high.


A class, precision small, it s here for a private school, so imagine the public.


an elevation chart.


The bikes parked outside the school, said onvous in the transport section that most children al go school by bike, on foot when they live really close as in cities such as boat and when they live in floating villages and that their school is also floating!



the school.



Another class.



The equipment of the teacher.



A course in Khmer, was to show you what it is like writing ...

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textbooks loaned by the school and shared by several students (within 5 ...)



The teacher's desk.


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Cambodia: Landscapes.


There are 95% of Buddhists in Cambodia, it is therefore enormous statues and temples in honor of Buddha throughout the country.



There are some wonderful beaches in the south. Pictured top left a woman fishing for crabs.


left the river Tonle Sap tributary of the Mekong, the right Tonle Sap Lake, the two are a real boon to the Cambodia, they are a real reserves of fish and is also one of the last places where dolphins live in the Irrawaddy (river dolphins).



The Tonle Sap yet. There are so many floating villages along this river, the inhabitants are predominantly fishermen's families in these villages one can see churches, mosques and temples floats, floating schools, grocery stores and floating houses, etc.. There are also boats / groceries. In short, a real village, but on the water.
As in Laos, a lot of rice fields throughout the country.

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Cambodia: Leisure and games.


left, these kids play slingshot, and no they do not play a snap anything but to aim at targets. At right, children who ask us to take pictures. Indeed, Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world, children are therefore very rarely cameras, c is a game for them to ask and then be able to see a photo, they burst laughing every time.



Cambodians are very sports as you can tell from these photos. Athletics, basketball and volleyball are just a sample of the sports we've seen the Cambodians practice among them: badminton, football, aerobics, etc.. All this outside of course and as you can see in the picture below each sporting event attracts a crowd was amazing every time!


dance. Here two types of dance: has left the dance from the Ramayana (the text that tells the story of Hindu gods), traditional dances, classic. Right: documenting a folk dance popular history. This one talks about relationships between boys and girls and growing rice.



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The dart is played in the same manner that we've kataw speaks for Thailand and Laos with more hands, it is just as popular as kataw. The players are still very agile and are able to enchainer impressive figures.

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Cambodia: Transportation.


As you can see from these photos roads in Cambodia are not always in very good condition ...


This lady is doing on fuel, here there is no sewage service at all street corners as in France, so many traders sell gasoline or diesel that they store in soda bottles, and to fill is used here with a funnel!


A hub of Phnom Penh (the capital) there is heavy traffic and circulation rather dangerous. Code point of the road here, at least nobody respects, each is more or less what he wants, some drivers traveling at cons-way, vehicles are parked on sidewalks and this is not because a fire that is redder than the people s ADOPT!



Passenger transport : Motorcycle doped so taxi (top left), whose seat is elongated in order to install two, three or even four passengers (plus driver of course). Cyclo-tuk tuk (top right), the tuk-tuk motorcycle (bottom left), minibuses (bottom right), and when there is no longer room inside al there is still the roof as you can see.


modes of transport for children: the bike course and the boat in the floating villages. C is impressive to see these little bits that the age of 4 to 5 years take the boat in the first sense, ie paddle, go for al school or running errands, etc..


Shops are often mobile and therefore as they are in Thailand sidecar vehicle type (left), or moles that must move to the force of arms and legs (right ).


The boat is a widely used means of transport in Cambodia (both for transportation of people for food) because the country is crossed by the Mekong, the Tonle Sap one of its tributaries, but also because the largest lake in Southeast Asia (Tonle Sap) is located in the heart of the country.




The bamboo train is widely used in the region of Battambang on the railways that the French had built in Cambodia to carry food or equipment from one village to another. The bamboo train is allowed in major cities because there are apparently frequent accidents since no rule exists for movement of bamboo train, it happens so that two trains are running towards each other at full speed and collide .