Temples and Landmines

Angkor Wat at sunrise

Defused Landmines at Museum 

Today we were up and on the bus by 4:30 am to go to Angkor Wat to watch the sunrise over the temple. It was an eery experience walking into the place in total darkness. For $1.00 you could get a mat to sit on and a coffee. Slowly as we watched the temple began to reveal itself. Spectacular. Then we went into the temple - lots of bas reliefs and buddha's. Afterwards we went to Angkor Thom which was nearby and part of the old city of Angkor. There were tourists riding elephants at $50.00 each. Made for some good photos. Then a short stop at another ruin - more rocks and Buddha's. After lunch we went to a landmine museum founded by Ari Ra a 2010 CNN hero.During the era of genocide he worked with the Khnmer Rouge as a young boy and he laid 1000's of mines. He then switched sides and fought against the Khmer Rouge and now is working on demining all of Cambodia.   People are still dying from left over mines although not as many as years ago.  Tomorrow we are off to Battanbang where we will start distribution of some of the bicycles over the next five days.