Yesterday we dismantled bullets and cleaned landmines at the museum. Today we walked in awe through the temples and ruins of Angkor Wat. In order to make Angkor Wat accessible to the public the area had to be throughly combed for landmines. Thousands of mines where removed from this site and yet this clearing respresents only a small portion of the mines that exist today in Cambodia. Landmine experts estimate that there are up to 6 million landmines still in the ground. The picture above shows a portion of the landmines that Museum owner Akira has cleared from the countryside. Such is the irony of life that beauty must coexist and rival for position against destruction. Tomorrow we will awake for sunrise at the temples. In my many moments of cynicism regarding human's capacity for unspeakable destruction, these megaliths of art and innovation built between the 13th and 16th centuries speak wonders for the resilliency of beauty.