beautiful, small wat. We stopped in at a wonderful wildlife sanctuary.
They actually had a pangolin that had been rescued from poachers.
Pangolins are a critically endangered mammal somewhat similar to the
armadillo. Our last stop was at the Land Mine Museum. That was a tough
thing to face. Unknown to most Americans, the US carpet bombed
Cambodia during the Vietnam War in an attempt to drive the Viet Cong
out. That bombing cost 600,000 Cambodians their lives and in many
ways, ushered the Khmer Rouge into power. Cases were filled with land
mines and unexploded ordinance dropped or placed by the US, Russia,
China and Vietnam. Behind the museum, children missing limbs played
soccer.
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