Day 5: Friday, January 27, 2012
In the early morning, all of BELTEI team leaders prepared to tour Samuth Chhoeu (Sea Wood), Putann minority village, Dos Kromom mountain (Girl's Breast mountain), took picture at Chamkar Srol (Pine Tree Farm), and had lunch at Angkor Forest restaurant. Then we turned back to Phnom Penh capital.
We, BELTEI team leaders, went to a restaurant where we had breakfast a day before. That morning I had break fast with my wife. In the breakfast desk there were a campus director of BELTEI 2 and his wife, Mr. campus director of BELTEI 1 and his wife, and my wife and I. They talked about work, experiences, and their relatives who are living in the USA or abroad. We thought that it was the last of our tour.
The bus was changed because the previous one was old, and it was unable to move to the hill of the mountain. The bus moved to Putann minority village because we would like to know about their culture. The tour guides said they didn't have their own language. They just told their new generation from person to person.
When we were there, the bus was packing at a safe place, and all of the team leaders got out of the bus and walked straight to a thatch house.
Its shape looks like a big mushroom. We took many photos with it.On the other hand, we also felt strange with the pigs that look like the wild boar.
When I asked the resident about it, they said the sometimes the pigs crossbreed with the wild boar that why their head as like as wild boar.
We were standing in front of the thatch room of ethnic minority about 10 minutes. There were some of minority people come to see us because they have known clearly that we were tourists.
My H.E. Ly Chheng, a director-general of BELTEI Group told his son youngest son, Mr. Ly Bun Chhay, to offer money to them. I wasn't sure how much did he gave to them for each. I estimated the amount of the ethnic minorities were around 30. They were very happy to get a charity from our Director-General.
About ten minutes being there, our director-general ordered to tour manager to move to The Wavy Sea Tree (It is the thick forest that we were standing on the hill of mountain.
We saw it as like as the see when the wind is blowing on the top tree). The tour bus was moving about 30 minutes from the ethnic minority to be there.
We took out of the bus to see it, but I have seen nothing about the wavy sea tree because the weather was hot and there wasn't any windy.
Accordance with the folk tale about Phnom Dos Kromom said that Phmom Dos Kromom wasn't the real history of it.
It has different word that coming from the ethnic minority words (It is a Mountain of God who taking care people when they have problems they always come to that mountain to pray to the god for help), but one of the driver of a high ranking officer was asked by his master about the name of this mountain because it is higher than the others.
He didn't know how to tell his master because he didn't know, too. Hence, he decided to tell a lie that it is a Phnom Dos Kromom (Breast Girl Mountain).
From that day on, the people coming from Phnom Penh or the other province called Phnom Dos Kromom although they have been told the original words (ethnic minority words) because it was hard to say.
Before taking pictures of Phnom Dos Kromom mountain, we entered a small shrine where is a place that the residences strongly believe to the god who are taking care them to escape from unlucky. Furthermore, they also believe that god is able to help them when they pray and ask to do something successfully.
Lok Chum Teav Ly Chheng called all the campus directors to take photo with her to show our children that we have been there. The place that they were standing is in front of the shrine of Mountain God.
After taking a photo with Lok Chum Teav Ly Chheng and the other campus directors's wive, I took a photo for my wife where was standing at the left side of the shrine.
We can see a good view from the top Dos Kromom mountain especially the the city of Mondulkiri and beautiful mountains that are similar with the mountains along the National Road #4 from Phnom Penh to Sihanouk province.
The thing that I couldn't forget was the fresh air on the top of the Dos Kromom mountain. We would like to stay her for long hours but the time wasn't allowed us because the fresh air is able to release the stressful from our mind.
We took the deep breath into our lung many times. The environment is so good although the sun was shining from the East, but the blowing wind still made us comfortable.
I told my wife to take deep breath into her lung because it also can help her from the sickness.
Her healthy isn't good enough because she was operated about 6 years. Moreover, she also got accident and broke her rib that why she always get ill especially at the rainy season.
After vising the Phnom Dos Kromom (Breast Mountain), We moved to Mondulkiri we moved back the hotel to relax about 30 minutes. Then we gathered all properties to keep in the bus because it was the last day of our trip and also the last day to stay in Mondulkiri hotel, too. The tour bus has moved to a restaurant called Mondulkiri Hydroelectric where is a place that has waterfall the strong current water to be able to create hydroelectric for the resident to use.
All of us were moving to Angkor Forest Restaurant to have lunch there before we left Mondulkiri resorts. The bus took around 23 minutes from hydroelectric to Angkor Forest.
In the early morning, all of BELTEI team leaders prepared to tour Samuth Chhoeu (Sea Wood), Putann minority village, Dos Kromom mountain (Girl's Breast mountain), took picture at Chamkar Srol (Pine Tree Farm), and had lunch at Angkor Forest restaurant. Then we turned back to Phnom Penh capital.
We, BELTEI team leaders, went to a restaurant where we had breakfast a day before. That morning I had break fast with my wife. In the breakfast desk there were a campus director of BELTEI 2 and his wife, Mr. campus director of BELTEI 1 and his wife, and my wife and I. They talked about work, experiences, and their relatives who are living in the USA or abroad. We thought that it was the last of our tour.The bus was changed because the previous one was old, and it was unable to move to the hill of the mountain. The bus moved to Putann minority village because we would like to know about their culture. The tour guides said they didn't have their own language. They just told their new generation from person to person.
When we were there, the bus was packing at a safe place, and all of the team leaders got out of the bus and walked straight to a thatch house.Its shape looks like a big mushroom. We took many photos with it.On the other hand, we also felt strange with the pigs that look like the wild boar.
When I asked the resident about it, they said the sometimes the pigs crossbreed with the wild boar that why their head as like as wild boar.
We were standing in front of the thatch room of ethnic minority about 10 minutes. There were some of minority people come to see us because they have known clearly that we were tourists.
My H.E. Ly Chheng, a director-general of BELTEI Group told his son youngest son, Mr. Ly Bun Chhay, to offer money to them. I wasn't sure how much did he gave to them for each. I estimated the amount of the ethnic minorities were around 30. They were very happy to get a charity from our Director-General.
We saw it as like as the see when the wind is blowing on the top tree). The tour bus was moving about 30 minutes from the ethnic minority to be there.
We took out of the bus to see it, but I have seen nothing about the wavy sea tree because the weather was hot and there wasn't any windy.
We, team leaders, took pictures about 15 minutes. Then we started to move to Phnom Dos Kromom (Breast Girl Mountain).
It has different word that coming from the ethnic minority words (It is a Mountain of God who taking care people when they have problems they always come to that mountain to pray to the god for help), but one of the driver of a high ranking officer was asked by his master about the name of this mountain because it is higher than the others.
He didn't know how to tell his master because he didn't know, too. Hence, he decided to tell a lie that it is a Phnom Dos Kromom (Breast Girl Mountain).
From that day on, the people coming from Phnom Penh or the other province called Phnom Dos Kromom although they have been told the original words (ethnic minority words) because it was hard to say.
Lok Chum Teav Ly Chheng called all the campus directors to take photo with her to show our children that we have been there. The place that they were standing is in front of the shrine of Mountain God.
After taking a photo with Lok Chum Teav Ly Chheng and the other campus directors's wive, I took a photo for my wife where was standing at the left side of the shrine.
We can see a good view from the top Dos Kromom mountain especially the the city of Mondulkiri and beautiful mountains that are similar with the mountains along the National Road #4 from Phnom Penh to Sihanouk province.
The thing that I couldn't forget was the fresh air on the top of the Dos Kromom mountain. We would like to stay her for long hours but the time wasn't allowed us because the fresh air is able to release the stressful from our mind.
We took the deep breath into our lung many times. The environment is so good although the sun was shining from the East, but the blowing wind still made us comfortable.
I told my wife to take deep breath into her lung because it also can help her from the sickness.
Her healthy isn't good enough because she was operated about 6 years. Moreover, she also got accident and broke her rib that why she always get ill especially at the rainy season.
After vising the Phnom Dos Kromom (Breast Mountain), We moved to Mondulkiri we moved back the hotel to relax about 30 minutes. Then we gathered all properties to keep in the bus because it was the last day of our trip and also the last day to stay in Mondulkiri hotel, too. The tour bus has moved to a restaurant called Mondulkiri Hydroelectric where is a place that has waterfall the strong current water to be able to create hydroelectric for the resident to use.
This elephant was standing near me after she walked about two or the time around the area to bring the tourist people to see the forest. Near the elephant there was a store selling banana and the other snack. My friends and I bought couple of hand of banana for her because we found that she was tired, too.
At the gate of this restaurant, we could see a big monkey that was sculpted by a tree-trunk. Most of us had taken photos with it before entered the restaurant.
Some of us were mocking each other to make laugh such as he would abduct your wife if you allow her to stand and take picture with him because it is as big as human beings.
Furthermore, we were able to know the kind of food that was written on the two wooden board were standing at the right side of the restaurant gate.
The restaurant is decorated as like as a jungle, for it is in the middle of the trees, and a restaurant owner also use the green trees as pillars. It meant when we arrived there, it seemed that you were in the jungle.
I was standing near the wood board to take a couple of photos because I love the natural resource particularly the furniture making by wood.
To have lunch in the Angkor Forest Restaurant, we have to walk on the steps and hold on a stairway because we can called a top tree restaurant, too.
I asked my wife to stand in the middle of wood stairs to take photo. Some of us walked around the restaurant area before entering it.
On the other hand, they needed to go to the bathroom to wash their faces , cleaned their hands, and combed their hair before having lunch time.
For me, I sat on a tree-trunk chair to take fresh air because it was 12:27pm. It was a long time trip from early morning; hence, some of us felt exhausted.
There were three lunch tables for us. We saw nothing food when we sat on the chairs around the table because the food was preparing for us.
We were chatting about last couple days trip, and sometimes we have also chatted about our future work that we are going to commit after the long trip.
While my H.E. Ly Chheng were having some advises to all campus directors, who were attending lunch time with him. I was listening to him, and I was also watching the scenery around the restaurant especially I could see all the good views from the top trees. We were waiting for the food for lunch too late. It wasn't a fast service, but it was a slow service I thought.
Thinking the seeing the views in the jungle restaurant, I have heard one of a waiters said about the juices that made from the fresh fruit which was ordered by Mr. Ros Paradise, a campus director of BELTEI 6. He said that this fruit can reduce cholesterol in our bodies. I ordered her a cup of juice to test it. Unluckily, the waiters were serving too slow. On the other hand, it was time to start the journey so that I decided to leave it with grief.
The journey started from Mondulkiri province to Phnom Penh. Some of campus directors said it was our new year start. Everything will start from the first when we arrived Phnom Penh on Saturday, January 28, 2012.
On the way to Phnom Penh, we were sleeping on the bus without seeing the scenery anymore because most of us were exhausted.
When the bus stopped, some of us left it. I asked them what were they doing? They said, "We go to take pictures at the rubber farm trees at Kampong Cham province.
I got out the bus with my unstable steps and went straight to the rubber farm trees to take some photos. I took my Iphone 4 out of m pocket and handed to a girl who works as BELTEI Tour staff to help me to take photo. She was smiling and took my phone to take two pictures for me.
It was a big rubber farm trees that we took a short rest there. Some of us drank fresh water taking from the bus and some others were walking around the it to see the rubber trees because they have never seen to way how to get the resin from rubber trees.
After taking a short time relax, the tour bus started moving to Phnom Penh because we estimated time from Kampong Cham to Phnom Penh at least 8:30pm to be there.
The brighten light along the road show us that our trip almost finishing and the bus was moving on the national road step by step because there were crowd of people from the both side. Some people were crossing the road; hence, the bus driver should drive carefully to escape from the accident by chance.
We arrived BELTEI 6 where is near the Phsar Ouresey market at 9:15pm. All campus directors carried their suitcases and said goodbye each other. My wife and I called a Roeu Mork (Motor-three wheels) to bring me to a restaurant where is closed to Sorya Supper market because we need to have dinner before we got bed.
EVERYTHING CAME TO THE END!!!
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