Moving and touching episode of our trip to Vietnam. But first I have to tell you something about the travel solidarity agency - Viaggi Solidali -that organized the whole thing. I’ve already gone with them to Zambia, Mali and Argentina. Their destinations are always very interesting and their programs are always very attentive to the social aspect before that of tourism. Travelling with them gives you a real idea of the country beyond stereotypes. With Travel Solidarity I visited missions, projects of development of local realities. I ate on the floor of the houses where kids who had drug problems lived. I slept and ate in communities created by brave priests or volunteers to various ong.
Travel solidarity is not an commercial agency. Its peculiarity is in what they show you. In Vietnam, for example, we spent more time in the rice paddies and farmers' gardens in the northern mountains than in the elegant skyscrapers of the south. Moreover, in the total amount to be paid there is always a share to be allocated to a solidarity project. For Vietnam the fee was 70 euros per person to be paid to an orphanage in Huè led by Buddhist nuns. And so we went to visit the 150 children and the head nun by the impossible name, tich Nu Minh Tu. We ate with them, we cuddled the little ones, we picked up Annhien, Nam, and they smiled at us and didn’t want to give up and they wanted to keep playing with their little fingers on the ipad and they sang their little songs. It was an oasis of serenity and joy in the middle of the journey. We got back on the bus taking their smiles with us and couldn’t take away the little Vietnamese.
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I know you wanted to see the pictures. But it was impossible for me. As soon as I return to Italy I promise to repair.Claudio
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my previous posts:
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/11/claudios-trip-vietnam-2345.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/11/claudios-trip-go-with-vietnam-6.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/11/claudios-trip-go-with-vietnam-7.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/11/claudios-trip-go-with-vietnam.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/12/claudios-trip-we-danced-ethnic-dances.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/12/when-man-with-scooter-meets-man-with.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/12/claudios-trip-neandertal-mattress-via.html
https://free-libbberamente.blogspot.com/2019/12/on-fiery-arrow-of-south-via-col-vietnam.html
