Friday, March 11, 2011

Left and Right

From the hilltop, if you look left, that is, to the north, you see a collection of residential compounds and one factory, a gravel plant.  To the right, near the foot of the hill, is this cemetery.  It's common for the graves to be decorated with streamers and pennants.  This was one of two cemeteries we saw that had a wall around them.  During one part of the ride, we passed through a poorer-than-usual stretch where people gathered branches to sell as firewood, and there was a cemetery in the road itself.  The convoy had to slow down and veer sharply to the left in order to avoid running over any of the above-ground graves.  That cemetery had no pennants or streamers at all, just mounds of rocks over the bodies.

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