Where we are

We have made it to Battambang though, a sleepy city with run down French colonial architecture. I keep looking for Angelina Jolie but she is nowhere. Only monks in bright orange robes and Battambang's residents moving up and down these quiet streets in Cambodia's 2nd largest city where all of the store signs and advertisements are spray painted on small wooden signs placed near the road side and where pig's face is sold along with veggie's at the sandwich stands. This is one of the heaviest mined regions in Cambodia, one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. We are in former Khmer Rouge territory, the once heart of their post-1979 movement stretching from the surrounding countryside into the border region. Today the area is calm though last night's fireworks gave me a brief pause.

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