Two very different excursions today — one highlighting a major problem for modern Cambodia, the other visiting the past. Unexploded mines are a menace in Cambodia.  Many have been cleared but the efforts are ongoing.  A former economics professor from the US has teamed up with Cambodians to organize and fund these efforts.  They have a museum exhibiting many of the bombs, missiles and mines uncovered. It is difficult to imagine living in a landscape so riddled with danger – even harder to imagine how and why they all got there.

On to a temple built of pink limestone in the 10th century.  The walls at Banteay Srey showcase the workmanship  of its builders with intricate bas reliefs and sanskrit carvings