We entered BiH from Croatia Wednesday evening. This first day of the real travel was filled with bad impressions from the war still visible everywhere along the road. We drove from Senj on the Croatian coast to Bihač in Bosnia. Inland Croatia was the worst with empty and roof-less house-ruins in every village and shell marks on the walls of schools and churches. When we entered BiH it was a bit more hopefull, more reconstruction done but still bad. Some of the bombed houses looked even worse in contrast to the new pink and white buildings. We saw cemeteries with cloned white stones all dating from 1993-95 along the road. Two girls about forteen years of age went to put lilies on one of the graves, to a father or brother maybe.
This last picture shows the beautiful landscape aswell as the men who are demining it. Signs warned us to enter the fields, "Mines!" and a white scull.
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