At a Temple in Indochina, Placid Days, but No Peace

By SETH MYDANS Published: November 1, 2008 PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Brightly colored lines of washing hang by the gray stone walls. A vendor offers sunglasses, shampoo and cigarettes from a plastic sheet under a tree. A man with a Polaroid camera sells souvenir photos to the Cambodian soldiers camped on the temple grounds. Enlarge