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Thursday, 11th December 2008 - Kota Kinabalu market and....headhunters' village!
Hi!!!!
How are you? At school as usual? For us here this has been the day on which we have seen a part of the city in the morning (market with a lot of people, tropical fruit, spices, fish, clothes, bags, pearls, shells and also.....some mice! Wonderful place full of life and messages: these are places where extreme wealth and poverty are mixed together. I do not want to express any evaluation, just repectfully observe. Strangers should be always respectful of the countries that host them, don't you think so? The hotels on the coast are incredible, and even if the temperature is so high that it seems you are always inside an oven, in the lobbies they always play Christmas songs which speak of snow and white Cristmases. It is for tourists of course. But from the balcony of my room I can hear the muezin singing his prayers five times a day, it is not the first time I hear it and I always like it. It's a prayer, anyway, and it makes you think. On the taxi the driver is playing the same music, muslim prayers and in the hotels some Malay people play and sing for the guests, what? Christmas songs, American or English. The people are friendly, really very friendly and helpful. At the market some boys are curious about my Italian sigarettes (mild MS!) and they tell me they want to try one and I offer them some, then they want to give me some Malboro, but I say it's Ok, I don't want anything in change.
Afternoon: visit of a village, a headhunters' village. Borneo is famous for this pospulation of cruel warriors. The village, the visit and the show is for tourists of course. There are no headhunters anymore, but the place is suggestive and the house with the skulls of the enemies hanging from the ceiling is a bit scaring.
Tomorrow the conference starts, so....at work.
Here are some photos:
How are you? At school as usual? For us here this has been the day on which we have seen a part of the city in the morning (market with a lot of people, tropical fruit, spices, fish, clothes, bags, pearls, shells and also.....some mice! Wonderful place full of life and messages: these are places where extreme wealth and poverty are mixed together. I do not want to express any evaluation, just repectfully observe. Strangers should be always respectful of the countries that host them, don't you think so? The hotels on the coast are incredible, and even if the temperature is so high that it seems you are always inside an oven, in the lobbies they always play Christmas songs which speak of snow and white Cristmases. It is for tourists of course. But from the balcony of my room I can hear the muezin singing his prayers five times a day, it is not the first time I hear it and I always like it. It's a prayer, anyway, and it makes you think. On the taxi the driver is playing the same music, muslim prayers and in the hotels some Malay people play and sing for the guests, what? Christmas songs, American or English. The people are friendly, really very friendly and helpful. At the market some boys are curious about my Italian sigarettes (mild MS!) and they tell me they want to try one and I offer them some, then they want to give me some Malboro, but I say it's Ok, I don't want anything in change.
Afternoon: visit of a village, a headhunters' village. Borneo is famous for this pospulation of cruel warriors. The village, the visit and the show is for tourists of course. There are no headhunters anymore, but the place is suggestive and the house with the skulls of the enemies hanging from the ceiling is a bit scaring.
Tomorrow the conference starts, so....at work.
Here are some photos:
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