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Chomsky & Co.

Chomsky & Co.
Olivier Azam, Daniel Mermet

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Special Session at 16:30
in the presence of Olivier AZAM



Daniel Mermet is well known, the sympathetic producer and host of the show Over there if I am . Here in the company of Olivier Azam at the camera he made up his mind to paint a portrait of Noam Chomsky. The latter having its days are numbered - he worked one hundred hours per week then he will be eighty years ago this December 7 - the sketch opened with two other scholars (hence the title), the Belgian Jean Bricmont and Quebecers Normand Baillargeon. In these interviews, not so much scientific knowledge of these three scholars who are interested Mermet their ability to escape the conventional wisdom. So here Mermet en route to Boston in April 2007, almost apologetically, that he usually preferred "rather than disposable notable road rather than rentiers. Not easy to classify Chomsky, "which falls somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Subcomandante Marcos." But soon, the thought fuse, while Chomsky compares the differences in treatment between the various press events that occurred here and there, the thousands miners killed in Chile, Iquique in 1907, died policies have left no trace, while the thirties caused a deranged Virginia Tech fills page after page of newspapers. In France, Arlette Chabot, Carole Gaessler Louis Laforge and David Pujadas, to whom the question is asked, but feel free to Chomsky, stakeholders from one machine to brainwash, it is giving them a " possibility of heated debate in a specific context. " This by means of liberal democracy: "Get free from violence that totalitarian states to get a stick." To point, the film develops a lot of work on the language of mass media. Then there are issues that have upset or angry, the contrast between the treatment of the Cambodian question and that of East Timor and, more importantly, the controversy with Pierre Vidal-Naquet result given by Chomsky's preface to Faurisson's book. Where is the limit freedom of expression? Fascinating question that the film travels in all directions.
Jean Roy

language theorist, born in Philadelphia in 1928, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics with the "generative grammar". There is also a political analyst involved in all political battles for decades. His clear and rational analysis of ideological mechanisms of our societies is a crucial resource for critical thinking today.

author of ten books, thousands of procedures and items that make him the most cited author in the world, "the intellectual planet's most popular" as stated Alain Finkielkraut, is much less known in France. By consulting such as archives of Radio France for 40 years, the name does Chomsky only five times for brief interventions on France Culture in the 70s. It has never been heard on France Inter.
What is this passage in silence?
Although in recent years his works are followed passionately by a young French audience, a series of media thinkers bent on maintaining the suspicion. Chomsky would have been well pleased with the revisionist historian Robert Faurisson, as to the genocidal Pol Pot and Cambodia. In its analysis of information structures as U.S. foreign policy, Chomsky would be a paranoid archaic inventing a fantasy "Conspiracy theory". Despite the tireless

Chomsky replies to his "Parisian critics" for almost thirty years, nothing helped. The recent publication of a comprehensive study on the books by Chomsky of Herne (*), with complete and accurate records that dismantle all charges, had no echo in the French media.

But if our scholars are content to disqualify and obscure without arguing, after all surprising. This is precisely the ideological mechanisms that shape the world order now Noam Chomsky continues to expose in deciphering the unspoken and the manipulations of ambient speech. For it is the thought control in democratic societies, it seeks to reveal. Thus at the end of a student conference calls Chomsky:
"I would like to know how the elite control the media? How to control
Does GM? The elite did not control General Motors. It belongs to him "

" By the power, scope, originality and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky Perhaps the most important intellectual alive "This sentence from an article in the New York Times, appeared on the cover of one of his books. "But beware Chomsky says, in the original text is followed by this:" If this is the case, how can he write such terrible things about American foreign policy. " It never quotes this part. When in fact, were it not that second sentence, I begin to think seriously that I'm wrong. "That

long as the small team of Yonder hoped to meet Noam Chomsky. At almost 80 years, he worked a hundred hours per week, between books, articles, public speeches and exchanges with hundreds of correspondents around the world. If it meets all the demands his schedule is timed for several months in advance. It welcomes visitors in his office at MIT. On the wall a large portrait of Bertrand Russell and a rag doll depicting the Chiapas Subcomandante Marcos.

"I'm not trying to persuade but to inform. I do not want to get people to believe me, any more than I want them to follow the party line, what I am saying - university officials, media, propaganda of the state attorneys, or others. By speech as the writing, I try to show what I believe to be true, that if one wants to put some of his and use his intelligence, we can learn a lot about what we cover the political and social world. I feel I have accomplished something if people want to meet this challenge and learn by themselves "


Not surprisingly Chomsky is not alone. A world of activists, researchers, journalists, or citizens find themselves engaged in its own way of laying the socio-political problems. Thus we meet in Montreal Normand Baillargeon, professor of education and author of "Small intellectual self-defense training" with drawings of Charb. In Brussels, Jean Bricmont, professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain author of "In the shadow of the Enlightenment," with Regis Debray (Odile Jacob, 2003) and "Humanitarian Imperialism" (Aden, 2005). At Cape Cod, Michael Albert, a survivor of the great ferment of the 60s, host of the network Z Net (**) and designer of "participalisme," one of those vast utopias as more daring (or not) by design.

"The power wants us sad," said Gilles Deleuze. The last question focuses on the progress and what we can hope to change. "Progress in human affairs is a bit like mountaineering, meets Noam Chomsky, you see a peak, you hardly go up and suddenly you discover that most other nearby peaks that you had perhaps not imagined. "

PRESS:

The Manufacture of Consent
Noam Chomsky, and some players well placed to comment on the subject, we explain how and why the media to manipulate public opinion by selecting information. They dissect the functioning of the media and update the subtle techniques they use.

A den dedicated to the film by Olivier Azam, Daniel Mermet Chomsky et Compagnie :

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Power and Terror
Noam Chomsky

few books to address Noam Chomsky, Jean Bricmont, and Normand Baillargeon ... And the other films.


Noam Chomsky

Since the 50s, Noam Chomsky has published thousands of articles, hundreds of books, lectures and interviews have been reproduced worldwide in all languages ... Here are just a few news articles, for addressing just critical thinking Chomsky:

- The Manufacturing of Consent (complete edition - Agone - Oct 2008) NEW

- In war as foreign policy of the United States * (Agone-2004) Prologue Howard Zinn - Afterword Jean Bricmont.
- Understanding the Power, the indispensable Chomsky (3 volumes - Editions Aden)
- Cahier de l'Herne No. 88: Chomsky (edited by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck - 2007)

- The intoxication of power (Fayard - 2008) NEW
- The doctrine of good intentions (Fayard - 2007)
- 11-9 Anatomy of Terrorism (Feathered Serpent - 2002)
- Two hours of lucidity: Interviews with Denis Robert and Weronika Zarachowivz (Bullring - 2001)


Movies
-Manufacturing Consent (Mr. Achbar and P. Wintonick) - 1992 (Ed K-movies)
- Power and Terror ( J. Junkerman) -2002 (Ed K-movies)


Jean Bricmont


Jean Bricmont is professor of theoretical physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. It is also the author, with American Alan Sokal of Nonsense, which demystifies the cavalier use of scientific language and "unfair extrapolation of the exact sciences to the humanities (Ed. Odile Jacob, 1997). In 2003 he published In the Shadow of the Enlightenment, with Régis Debray (ed. Odile Jacob). If

be "Chomskyan" had a meaning, it seems Jean Bricmont it is one of the busiest in Europe. Jean Bricmont prefer simply to defend the usefulness of an intellectual "to suggest otherwise, out of a rationalist frame of mind sufficiently, to dismantle the dominant ideology. »

En janvier 2007, il codirige un Cahier de L'Herne avec Julie Franck (ouvrage collectif) consacré à Noam Chomsky. It is this work which was the trigger a series of interviews for Yonder if I am.

Continuing the analysis of Noam Chomsky, Jean Bricmont published in 2005: Humanitarian Imperialism. Human rights, right of interference, law of the jungle?

- Humanitarian Imperialism. Human rights, right of interference, law of the jungle? (Aden -2005)

- Nonsense, co-authored with Alan Sokal (Editions Odile Jacob, Paris -1997)

- In the shadow of the Enlightenment, co-written with Regis Debray (ed. Odile Jacob, 2003).

- Coordinating Papers Herne the No. 88 (with Julie Franck)


Normand Baillargeon


Normand Baillargeon is a Professor of Educational Sciences at the University of Quebec at Montreal, essayist, activist and contributor to libertarian alternative journals. Pursuing the idea of Noam Chomsky ("If we had a real education system, there would self-defense classes intellectual"), he imagined what it might look like and wrote a little lesson of intellectual self-defense which been a successful book in 2007 (Lux List).

In 2004, Normand Baillargeon had issued the order less power: history and current events of Anarchism (agonist), in which Noam Chomsky found a pride of place between Bakunin and Kropotkin.

In 2005, he attacks the first volume of Education and the same year and then Freedom Dogs crave (Lux List).
He is also passionate about translations, including The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll (Bilingual Edition, Lux), The memoirs of a slave Frederick Douglass, and recently the amazing and always Propanganda news, how to manipulate the opinion in a democracy by Edward R. Bernays, Normand Baillargeon aptly prefaced (Zones).
Between classes, two conferences, two publications, the hyper-activist Norman Bailey is a regular contributor to Le Quack and review the port side! (Quebec), and joined the contributors of the French magazine Sine Hebdo.

- Small intellectual self-defense course (Lux editors-2007)
- Order less power, history and current events of Anarchism - Revised & augmented (Agony) NEW
- Education and Liberty (Lux edition)
- Dogs crave (Lux edition)
- Preface of "Propanganda, how to manipulate public opinion in democracy" by Edward Bernays (Zones)
Normand Baillargeon is also passionate about translations, including, he helped unearth "Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll (Bilingual Edition, Lux) , "the memoirs of a slave" by Frederik Douglass ...


INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL MERMET
about his show there if I'm

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Cinema, a meeting

... What 's is played there, like a "big bang" not covered by any distinction of taste or culture, but attending the meeting in its uniqueness, unpredictable and astonishing.
She holds in the instant certainty that this film, waiting for me, knows something of my report to the enigmatic world, I do not know myself but it contains in him as a secret to decrypt (...) confirmation of this truth that the important meetings, movies, movies are often those who have a head start on our awareness of ourselves and our relationship to life.

During the meeting, it simply collects the riddle with astonishment and acknowledge the blow, the power to shock.
time elucidation will come later and will last for twenty, thirty years or a lifetime.
The film works on mute, its shock wave is spreading slowly. Philippe Arnaud wrote: "Any image light, symbolic of the famine in childhood: not only itself but by the anticipation of instant proceeding that is foreign, it lays the foreshadowing of a possible ourselves by which we are chosen: it is a stand of images required to designate and we make up a kind of destiny that awaits us, know confusing since it is ahead of us, marked each time a punch where irremediable we know this about us without understanding why. " ... Alain
Bergala (The assumption cinema ed Cahiers du Cinema 2002)


The Spirit of the Beehive
Victor Erice



Spain, 1973, 1:38 with Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria Copy Newfoundland Restored 2008

"Everything flows from this primordial scene: that of meeting a girl with a monster, contemplated in turn by an eye that observes the world for the first time . »Erice



Spain, 1940, shortly after the end of the civil war. A mobile cinema plans Frankenstein in a small village lost in the Castilian plateau. Children are fascinated by the monster, and among them, the little Ana, 8, raises a thousand questions on this frightening character. Her older sister, Isabel, has tried to explain that this is a "trick" of cinema, she claims not to have met the spirit of Frankenstein prowling near the village.

incredibly rich, The Spirit of the Beehive opens like a fairy tale ("Once upon a time ...") and place in a magical realism. It is also well a film for children, and sensitive exploration of the magical world, a hidden symbol of devastation left by the war. Its multiple reading levels make it an inexhaustible source of fantasy and mystery, a haunting masterpiece carried by the play of his actresses and beauty images.



In both dark and bright, The Spirit of the Beehive is a timeless and unforgettable experience, a film that can not grow old and still exerts a fascination indelible.



The Spirit of the Beehive upset because every spectator not only relives his "First" film, but also his own childhood ...



Especially suitable for younger audiences, the film addresses the awareness of danger and death, through imagination and rich inner world of a child. The little Ana - Ana Torrent proved by this film three years before Cria Cuervos Carlos Saura.

The spirit of the hive is also a great film about Spain. According to Alain
Bergala "Eric is not only a filmmaker, he is also aware of his country's cinema and film in general." Indeed, if for Victor Erice reflection on the past policy Spain's expressed through the personal journey of the little Ana, the presence of the repressive ideology that undermines Franco's Spain is no less strong.

The confrontation between the universe of childhood and adulthood, "the constant interference between the real and imaginary, allow the viewer to form his interpretation, see other monsters of Other causes to defend the all-powerful weapon of the imagination. " (Marcorelles Louis, Le Monde, 17-05-1974).

When, in the guise of Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster meets a little girl and killed, the filmmaker manages to capture an incredible expression on the face of the little Ana Torrent (which, we recall, the unforgettable heroine of Carlos Saura's Cria Cuervos) that we would define as an imperfect mixture of awe and amazement.



One time "documentary" fiction in a beautifully composed, this plan of incredible beauty made the rare density of the sequence, not just because Eric has managed to "steal" an emotion the little girl but because it is the keystone of the whole work, a wonderful proof of this belief unwavering in the "fiction" that the viewer can read in large black eyes of the child.



first feature film a rare filmmaker (Erice has only three feature films under his belt since his debut in the '60s), the spirit of the hive is a magnificent novel learning Taking its source in the memories of the author (at least, we presume) and recounts, in a metaphorical form, suffocation of an entire society bursting under the yoke of Franco's dictatorship. Filmed during the last years of the reign of Caudillo, the film continues to outwit censorship punctilious and develops a language full of imagery, preferring the unspoken poetry and metaphor in direct confrontation with the regime.



Hence the admirable work of Victor Erice plastic: the frame is a breathtaking beauty (a constant frontal who favors symmetrical composition elements, lines of flight that "open" framework to another place far away ...), photography is beautiful (the filmmaker does not begrudge some pictorial and some plans refer directly to the Flemish and English painting) and a highly developed sense of the ellipse and off the field (particularly with very particular attention to the sound) it avoids heaviness demonstrative, any explanation highlighted in bold.



Ana and Isabel, two toddlers in the film, have a beekeeper father. The image of the hive can offer a first metaphor (there are also the geometric shape of the cells on glass honey color of the house), that of a society living under a leaden and obedient, without apparent reason, a power omniscient but invisible (this "spirit" mentioned in the title). The adult world is reduced to a mute father (Erice discusses his "internal exile") and a mother also prostrate, crushed by the oppressive nature of the universe in which they live.




First, the world appears to be huge and full of dangers: these are footprints in the earth to awaken the mind the image of the ogre, it is these trains which pass close to girls or these poisonous mushrooms against whom their father warns.
While her big sister makes him believe in the existence of mind and confronts the monster (fictitiously) to death (the sequence where terribly strong Isabel pretends to have been killed), the belief Ana a world "shadow" will allow him to escape the yoke of daily life.
This path will be marked by two steps that the director will set the scene with a breathtaking intensity. The first is an encounter with a soldier escaped from a train.



keeping with its strategy blueprint (the film contains little dialogue), Erice underline nothing, explains nothing but the viewer can easily imagine that this is a resistance to the regime and the terrible images of an end support this idea.
Through this meeting, Ana made the experience of death and finally leaves the world of children by running away into the forest. Then she saw the pictures of James Whale, until his encounter with the Frankenstein monster.



she living then really what you see? Is it a mere fantasy ? From that moment, the film plunges into a kind of reverie that combines the unconscious and childhood fears. The beauty of the plans of Erice is such that we think of some passages in The Night of the Hunter Laughton: it is the level where is the spirit of the hive!



Through the eyes of this child, the filmmaker offers a vision of the strongest and most distinctive of the English company subject to the Franco dictatorship. By supporting the belief to the end of this girl, we offer a movie extravaganza sailing between fantasy and pure poetry ... Vincent Roussel

TEACHING FILE:

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Nearly 80 years have passed since the release of Frankenstein, 80 years during which the impious creature and shaped by the tragic mad scientist has profoundly marked all the fantastic imagery of the collective imagination. But if the makeup forever recognizable Jack Pierce had crossed a century of cinema without a wrinkle, rediscover Frankenstein today can realize to what extent, by the use he made of his references - and that of his predecessor in the Chair director Robert Florey - Director James Whale was deeply codified the world of fantasy to come.
James Whale's Frankenstein will be screened at the Renoir in February the same author this month: The Invisible Man.


Erice



Victor Erice was born June 30, 1940 at Karrantza Spain. Fascinated by the film he discovered child, it becomes both a major critical and a great director.
With only three feature films, THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973), SOUTH (1983) and THE DREAM OF LIGHT (1991) and more than thirty years, he is without doubt one of the rarest English filmmakers of his generation. One of the secrets too, but who knew exactly how the secret of a country held in the shadow of the Franco years, the secret of a work where the mysteries of childhood, as far as the discretion of art, appear the incandescent core to which it has given shape.
Since the late 1990s, Victor Erice has shot three short films, including the beautiful children (2002). While it is unfortunately very rare, Victor Erice although one of the greatest filmmakers working. His three feature films, both fiction and documentary, are milestones in the history of modern cinema. They have influenced and continue to nurture the work of many filmmakers.
Victor Erice has written extensively on film, including an essay on the films of Nicholas Ray (Nicholas Ray y su tiempo, by Victor Erice and Jos Oliver, Madrid, 1986). Some of his texts were published in French magazine "Traffic".
Knowing his taste, his sensitivity and intelligence of other movies, the importance and influence of this cinephile always on his own films, the Centre Pompidou gave him carte blanche to present to the public twenty films that have singularly counted for him. FILMOGRAPHY

LOS DIAS perdidos, Spain, 1963, 41 ', nb
LOS DESAFIOS, Spain, 1969, 35' (for the episode), col.
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (El Espiritu de la Colmena), Spain, 1973, 98 ', col .. New print in February 2008 by Carlotta Films.
SOUTHERN (El Sur), Spain 1983, 93 ', col.
THE DREAM OF LIGHT (El Sol del Membrillo), Spain, 1992, 135 ', col.
PREGUNTAS AL Atardecer, episode of omnibus film "Celebrate Cinema 101, Japan, Spain, 1996, 12 ', col.
CHILDREN (Alumbramiento), an episode of collective film "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet ', Germany, 2002, 10', nb
APPROACHES. NOTES ON THE WORK OF ARTIST ANTONIO LOPEZ AT MADRID DURING THE SUMMER OF 1990
(Apuntes. Sobre el trabajo del pintor Antonio López en Madrid en el verano 1990), 1990-2003, video, 29 ', col.
THE DEAD RED (Soliloquio), Spain, 2006, 33 ', col.
MATCHING, 6 letters Video Abbas Kiarostami, 2005-2007, shorts, col.



TEN MINUTES OLDER: ALUMBRAMIENTO, 2002 Víctor Erice

Duration: 00: 10: 00






Víctor Erice as Abbas Kiarostami are filmmakers childhood.



Alain Bergala proposed Jordi Ballo, director of the contemporary center of Barcelona, to achieve a first exhibition of cinema in the form of a correspondence between Abbas Kiarostami and Víctor Erice. He knows that last big movie buff, know the films of Kiarostami. The project took shape when asked Bergala Erice and Kiarostami on the latter declares his admiration for the dream of light, one of the greatest films on the relationship between painting and cinema.

The correspondence between the two filmmakers, while both born in June 1940, one week apart, one in Iran of the former regime, the other in Franco's Spain, has three Topics: childhood, the political situation and its impact on the difficulty of creating the possibility for other arts practice to regenerate their cinematographer.

Erice as Abbas Kiarostami are Filmmakers childhood. The spirit of the hive (1973), South (1983) of English filmmaker, The Passenger (1974), Homework (1989), among many other titles of the Iranian filmmaker, became absolute references in cinema childhood. For Victor Erice

, childhood is the focus of the sensations. But, as revealed by the Red Death (2006), the primal scene is deeply marked by Franco which probably generates in him a challenge to make films in contemporary Spain.

For Kiarostami, childhood is perhaps, despite the masterpieces he produced a theme circumstance. He became a filmmaker working at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and young adults (the "Kanun"). Where is the Friend's Home? and Homework (1989) provide an opportunity to speak anyway, while Iran's censorship banned in almost all dialogue and contact between adults. His main subject is, according to Alain Bergala, how the law is passed in a society. Thus there is very little difference between the films before and after the revolution. The passenger, probably marking the presence of the larger society as in Where is the Friend's Home? style more poeticized.

ERICE / KIAROSTAMI
Matches
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Mont Pinatubo - Subic Bay

Friday December 5, 2008

It has taken us half a day to take the flight Tiger middle of the afternoon we arrived at Clark (Philippines) 20.15. Thibaud and Greg go to learn the taxi counter for Alex and myself go out oxygenate our lungs. After 15 minutes of discussion, they returned to inform us. We would be 1 hour drive from Capas and should 1h more to arrive in Santa Juliana, registration point for trekking of Mount Pinatubo. The purpose of this trip, like so many before, of course, is climbing a volcano. Mount Pinatubo was also made famous in 1991 with a rash nine hours caused 800 deaths and the evacuation of thousands of Filipino and American soldiers who were stationed in the Philippines.

We do not really prepared for this trip, which is rather usual, but at this point it never happened. The only thing we know is that we want to climb the volcano as soon as possible because the routes in the Philippines take a long time, which would leave us little time to visit other things. Either we go by taxi to Santa Juliana and attempts to find a guide there for the next morning, we try to find a guide now. We choose the second solution and we call Edwin, recommended by Lonely Planet. The telephone conversation in English seems difficult, it is only 1 hour from the airport in Clark, we ask him to join us.

For those who know Clark airport, they should know just passing 1h makes already depressed, then spend 1 hour when you're the last flight of the day and everyone leaves the airport ... Well nay. We head towards the one small dispensary Pizza Hut to beg for pizza. Is closed .. I asked him if it is possible to call a delivery service to be delivered to the airport. Faced with the plight of our eyes, we released two pizzas I know not where. The pizzas are hot, they are taken (412 pesos).

A trip to the vending machine, and here we deal for a small dinner outside the airport amid a handful of technicians surface of the airport s afferent. Then we go on with our first game of cards (a small c tr .. ... or the president also called, it depends where it is located).

An hour after the telephone conversation, a kind of jeep happens is Edwin. He moved with us and we start talking price. Rp 3.000 per person for the ascent and 2,500 Rp to guide and porter. The guide is mandatory, it will happen against the carrier. We decide to leave immediately for Santa Juliana. We stop at a gas station to buy some food, water and beer. And here we are, hair the wind through the countryside of northern Philippines. Just 1:20 drive, here we are already in Santa Juliana. Edwin invites us to sleep at his friend. It arrives in a small house located 30 meters from the registrar for the trek. People who live there, and despite our protest, release the two rooms of the house and go sleep on the floor or on a few couches. The walls are thin, the rooms have no ceiling, but it's quite nice to sleep with the locals.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

We wake up so the smell of frying at 5am. An omelette, fried eggs, coffee and very good rolls on the table waiting for us outside. It had indeed spotted a little bakery has a few meters left out of the house. Edwin

found us a guide to climb. Registrars for the trek do not open until 6am. No problem, we will register our return .. We start therefore with Edwin jeep and guide the direction of Mount Pinatubo. It is already beginning to emerge.

Jeep crosses large areas of ash and sandy land , remnants of the eruption. The need to have a jeep is felt for the few crossings of the main stream flowing in the middle of this ancient path of lava.

After 40 minutes of driving, the Jeep stops and we start with the guide for 2 hours of walking. Edwin stayed with our bags and Jeep. The trail to the lake does not rise very little. It's almost walking on the flat part on the end or it goes a little disappointing for the more adventurous we are. The only difficulty of the trek lies in the attempt to keep your feet dry when he must cross the small river about 56 times. Two very different techniques in pictures: balancing on rocks or crossing the schuss . Note that only Alex distinguished himself in the latter technique.

We were too late to lake. Turquoise water, hot sun, a small house (the "base camp"), vegetation surrounded by mountains ... just magical. At the time of the eruption, the Pinatubo has indeed sunk to 300 meters and gave way to the lake. 150 photos each, and later we repeat the path in the opposite direction. Along the way, we meet a few tourists, a dozen at most. Edwin and found the Jeep that took us to lunch restaurant (included in package). Rice, chicken, potatoes, .. the meal is quite rich. During the meal, we get information from Edwin on the activities we can do in the area. Baguio, among the beautiful rice terraces in Asia, is nearly 8 hours of road. Hundred Islands National Park is too far and the description of the Lonely Planet is bleak ... It was therefore decided to go to Subic Bay, southwest of Clark.

Edwin leads us to the station of Jeepney Angeles. The Jeepney, these are the transport of U.S. troops who have been converted into taxis. 40 minutes later (140 pesos for 4) and we arrive to the bus station in San Fernando. Right out of the jeepney, you get alpaguer by a minibus driver: 1,500 pesos for four. We know that the normal bus costs about 200 pesos per person, so it sends the driver politely graze and begin crossing the main street. It is up to us: 500 pesos for all, a reduction of 67% without saying a word .. So here we are the minibus at 11 and a dog. 2h card game later and we arrived at Olongapo. The city seems rather busy, it goes in search of a hotel. We put our suitcases in the Ridge Crest Hotel. The rooms are not given (2,000 pesos per room) for the standard Filipino but they are spacious, clean and well equipped.

We then dine at Sam's Pizza, Pizza Hut with sort of a platform which hosts the bands to an audience that is busier dining has watch the show. However, this singer has managed to hold our attention for her vocal .. if so, I assure you she sang well and more. The family-size pizzas are very plentiful, so we decided to walk to Subic Bay to digest. It falls on a night market and a dance. They ask for a beer before finishing the evening in a dance Traditional (:)) of Olongapo and Angeles you can find too. We do not accept invitations to private dance lessons despite the insistence of the manager and his employees.


Sunday, December 7, 2008

We decide to leave the hotel and spend our last night in Baloy Beach. It therefore takes a yellow jeepney (8 pesos per person) to Rontonda (small square with a statue of a head) where you can take the blue jeepney. The blue jeepney (13 pesos / person) takes us to Baloy Beach.

arrived at Baloy Beach it is regularly surrounded by sellers of blowguns, bows, CDs, sunglasses, .. We visit several resorts before landing at the Resort's Sheaven (3,000 Rp for a room of 4). It is now time to take an American breakfast (eggs, bacon, toast = 230 pesos) with a banana shake (110 Rp). The hotel's terrace, with views over the bay is quite nice.

You can walk then Baloy beach, but the sun soon lead us to look a little dark corner. The beach is beautiful. The only problem remains tankers that sail off, but the water is clean.

It was therefore decided to rent for three one small cottage (200 pesos) which are alternated card games and swimming.

We returned to the hotel eat a burger before heading to the Bat Kingdom where it seems one can see the bats of two meters wide. This requires resume jeepney jeepney yellow and blue. The animation, as the Lonely Planet, starting around 17h, we decided to go by car chartered by the hotel (450 pesos one way). After half an hour, we arrive at the famous Bat Kingdom. The driver stopped us on an embankment overlooking a forest rather dense. No signs, no bat, we're pretty skeptical. So we head to a few people to confirm that the driver took us to the right place. They assure us that this is the Bat Kingdom but most bats are now visible on the side of the airport. It therefore incorporates the car and arrive at the airport 5 minutes later. Indeed, hundreds of bats hang from the top trees surrounding the airport. We got out of the car armed with our cameras. Vigils warn us that it is forbidden to take pictures of the airport ... noted. The wind picks up a few bats, but almost all remain in a vegetative state. According to the vigil, they only wake up to 21h. They are rather large, but very far from the two meters announced by the guides. He is 18h, it would take too long to wait. Moreover, the dark and speed of these cattle makes it difficult to take pictures. It therefore takes the car to Olongapo where we were the day before (another 450 pesos in the teeth). Some jeepneys pass occasionally, so it may be possible to travel by public transport. A

Olongapo, we go to Cor Pang, the casino main street. A sign at the entrance to the Casino invites guests to leave firearms in a kind of urn ... nice. Inside, a table ball, 5-6 blackjack and hundreds of slot machines. Their rules of blackjack seem very odd (only two packages at the center of the table, players play cards from the bank while the croupier plays the player's cards, a maximum of 3 cards, ..). The ball does not open until 20:30, so it falls back on the machines slot. Apart from 4 slots to poker, slot machines are other lines of symbols where one chooses the number of lines to make combinations .. incomprehensible too. We leave so quickly the casino for dinner. We will dine at McDonald's (Big Mac Menu Large = 150 pesos). It then returns the ball to play at the casino. I earn almost twice my bet before he changes me the dealer and I lost my fortune. Only Greg can recover his initial investment. It takes the jeepney back to blue and Baloy beach where we settle down to play cards.


Monday, December 8

Lever 8:30, we have two options: take the only direct bus to hotel to Angeles at 11 am or stay a little longer and go to the bus station in the Rotunda. We choose the second option, knowing that there is not much to do in Angeles. After breakfast, we return to the beach where I make my maiden jetski (2,500 pesos / hour). We then returned to the hotel to retrieve our belongings. The blue jeepney

brings us to the bus station where we take the bus from Dau to 13h (150 pesos / person). The bus is almost empty, everyone gets a seat and prick a small amount. After 1:30 drive, the bus fills up but luckily we arrived half-hour later Dau. It takes up a yellow jeepney Angeles. Victim of a traffic accident, we change jeepney. Then we get into the main street of Angeles : that is to say prostitutes in a bar every 5 meters. We choose a bar that seems a priori well in all respects. Within a pool table, perfect to fill some two hours that we have to wait. The bar still has a nightclub a little special Voodoo, as well as bedrooms each floor. It then arranges

a car from the bar (300 pesos), which brings us back to the beautiful Clark airport. Included are a few groups of French crusaders to go. Once the airport tax paid (700 pesos / person), we wait in the departure lounge with a final game of cards. The flight to Singapore will be unhindered.


Estimated budget for one person (excluding airfare):
Transportation: 550 pesos
Power: 800 pesos
Housing: 1750 pesos
Other (guide, jetski, taxes, bungalow) : 6,200 pesos

Total = 9.300 pesos (about 140 euros)

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