5 – My Son & Da Nang: il vecchio e il nuovo

La mattina ci alziamo presto per andare a vedere l’alba tra I temple in mezzo alle colline presso My Son. Anche qui la guerra si è fatta sentire: su templi e statue I proiettili hanno scalfito la pietra, le bombe hanno distrutto interi gruppi di templi e lasciato profondi crateri ora ricoperti dalla vegetazione che rigogliosa riveste queste colline. Il ruscello che corre attraverso i templi forniva un tempo l’acqua utilizzata nei riti religiosi durante i quali veniva bevuta; oggi quell’acqua risente ancora degli agenti chimici rilasciati dagli americani.

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5 – My Son & Da Nang: the old & the new

 

  We woke up early in the morning to go to see the sunrise up on the hills in My Son, where there are groups of ancient temples. Although up on the hills, the war got here too: bullets are still visible on the ruins of temples and statues, bombs have destroyed groups of sacred buildings and left deep craters now covered by vegetation that completely dresses these hills. The streams running through them used to provide the water that was being drunk during religious rituals: today that water still has chemical agents due to the bombs dropped by Americans.

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