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The world is full of wonders waiting to be discovered

Last weekend we were exploring the bicycle side of Leijonakaupunki. Believe it or not, but behind the glittering facade of shopping malls, all the bling bling and superfast highways, there still ARE things to discover!!!

We found an old pre-war Chinese cemetary some 15 min away from our home!!! It is a HUGE piece of land, or should I say forest, full of old, some abandoned, graves and tombstones.

We never found it before, because, we tend to stick to the main roads and highways if we take public transportation and you can't walk more than some 20 min before you want to get to some air-conditioned place (at least you would never venture off the "beaten track" if you're not completely sure that its worth it). Bicycles opened up oportunities to access quiet residential neighbourhoods and huge areas of unexplored undeveloped land for us! I'm sure it will take quite some time before we exhaust those possibilities to wander around... Bicycles is one of the best things that happened for us here!.. :)

This doesn't look like Leijonakaupunki, now does it? I'd say more like Bali? As we were cycling around in the graveyard we saw strange people that looked as if they were living in the cemetary. On some roads there was a lot of garbage and these people were dragging plastic bags full of stuff. They had bicycles too and some kind of shelter above their heads. We immediately started fantacising that they must be some outlaws that don't belong to the society and are doomed to live in the cemetary. It was quite thrilling otherwise too, it wasn't the kind of place where I'd go alone or after dark. People are very superstitious here and it is contagious. Almost everybody would have a story to tell about a ghost in the movie theater or a skeleton in an MRT train.. This place felt weird for me. As I was taking pictures, I felt that I am interupting, taking something out from the place, stealing something? Brrrrrr... Rest in Peace, people...