Man-made jars being destroyed by nature (erosion), nature destroyed by man (bombs and defoliants).

Visiting Phonsavon has been a somber visual realization that what the US did in Laos was a terrible thing. The visual impact is so much more sobering than just reading about what happened here. The pain inflicted on the people is bad enough, yet on top of that, scars have been inflicted on the environment that have lasted and will continue to last for a long long time. When a war is over, it doesn’t mean that everything is all neatly wrapped up.