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When I was camping in Albania I usually pitched my tent were the sheep were. I figure out that if there were some mines, than sheep had already cleared them...

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When I was camping in Albania I usually pitched my tent were the sheep were. I figure out that if there were some mines, than sheep had already cleared them...

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I have done quite a bit of resaerch and I was not aware of mines in Albania, where I will also be visiting.
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I spent some time on foot in a heavily mined area of Mozambique right after the end of their civil war. What impressed me most was the fine line between what was known to be ok and what was not: there'd be a narrow path on which everyone walked, but stepping even a half-meter from the edge of the path was totally unsafe. In villages there were fields where crops were being grown just inches from identical fields which had maimed children. The locals knew, but I sure didn't.

I also remember seeing "minas" warning signs in some very unlikely places near the Chile/Argentina border. It turned out that mines had been sown in the passes, then carried long distances by flash floods and deposited unpredictably. Just because an area was never mined, or used to be safe, or had sheep grazing it last year, doesn't mean there aren't mines there currently.

For me, under any similar circumstances, that would render wild camping out of the question.

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Edited to not cause confusion with the later..more indepth post.

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