Landmines

While enjoying Angkor, the Khmer hospitality, the great food and all the sights and sounds, you easily forget that you're in Cambodia, a country that has been hit hard by civil war in the recent past. During the bicycle trip I visited the "landmine museum". This guy Akira cleared a piece of land of landmines so that he could live there. He stored all the things he found in a shed, the landmine museum.

For an hour I listened to Mr. Akira tell me his life story. After that I felt numb by what I heard. You can see all the documentaries and movies about war and the atrocities that come with it, but when you see a glimpse of it yourself it really is a whole different thing. Only a year ago this area was not save to live in. He was the first to settle and fight of people that tried to rob him. Now some other people and families settled in the area and it seemes that for this small part of cambodia relative peace and happiness is around the corner. But don't forget that still every year hundreds of people get killed or seriously injured by landmines.