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… and next year we`ll go and see Basra
This phrase sounds like holiday planning and there`s much about tourism in this picture: longing for foreign lands, people who look different, strange cultures, sunshine and needing to feel good. Curiosity and the hunger for new experiences cause strange blossoms. Since not just tourists, but also the people of the countries travelled to, have their desires, which they hope to fulfil with the cash from those passing through. So they try to show the man everything possible to make some money. The odd time it`s as if history is being huckstered, mutated into a profane article for consumption. The hunt for a special holiday experience stops before nothing so the bus in the top left of the picture page is bringing tourists to Cambodia`s Killing Fields. There`s plenty of business around the mass grave. The parasols are opened out and the first busload of tourists is settled comfortably into the deckchairs. They have bought a portion of chips and are enjoying their box view of the mass grave on the left of the picture. The skeletons are cleanly laid out and in some of the skulls you can see the bullet-holes. The guide tells his customers that in the Pol Pot era 4 million Cambodians were murdered. The members of his own family lie here and in other graves too which will be visited on the next stage of the day tour. Some of the tourists find the trip so interesting they decide to visit Iraq next year – there`s been a big war there with over 100,000 dead.