We went on a moto (motor bike) tour. Along the way we visited an old temple which were were told was built in the ninth century. Apparently this place was still standing until the Khmer Rouge shelled it in the 1970's. The story our guide told us is that they heavily mined the area then shelled the villages in the area. When the villagers ran to the stone walls of the old temple, many were killed by land mines. Hearing that story made it a little scary to walk around the temple. There are still many millions of mines lying in the jungles of Cambodia.
Walking to the temple.
Destroyed by the Khmer Rouge artillery.
A tree in the temple ruins.
Hard to believe this is over one thousand years old.
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