Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Prey Lang Trip in Presh Vihear 2015

A Long Unforgettable Journey To Prey Lang

Day I : Departure Time 
Tit, Tit, Tit… the sound of our car is ringing and telling us that we’re going to leave to Prey Lang now. I’m so excited and passionate to see great trees and various species especially to see the situation of illegal logging and deforestation in Prey Lang soon. Everyone got to know each other enthusiastically. Of course, it just took us a few minutes to know one another since we have the same interest of loving nature and want to protect it. We never forget taking a selfie !!! Ohhh…some participants had already slept without knowing we’re taking selfie! Look, everyone seems hungry now and yeah, we had breakfast at Skun and lunch at Kampong Thom. Now we’re full and it’s time to continue our long journey. Ohh…we had to buy some food for the three days at Kampong Thom market too. I went to buy too because I want to see people lives there and so on. A few hours later we’re a little bit shock knowing that one of our cars if broken. Oh My Buddha! Please bless us! We had a solution by adding those on the broken car to our existing cars. Actually, it’s a bit crowded now but it’s not bad at all since we brought some singers along with us! We sang and sang and sang happily and hopefully especially the songs about Prey Lang, this makes me feels very delighted and passionate more! We arrive, we arrive, someone screamed out loud! No we not arrive yet, another followed. In fact, it took us almost a full day to reach our home-stayed site. 

Day II III IV : Get into the Forest Get up, get up!!! 
Good morning to the new day of going into the forest. We had breakfast and packed some food for the 3 days and 2 nights in Prey Lang. How did we get into the forest? Actually, we got there by Kor Yun. It’s a new experience of riding it for most of the participant including me. We jumped up and down; up and down…what’s wrong? Nothing wrong! we just jumped up and down because we can’t control our whole weight of riding Kor Yun when it reached the hills. I laughed scarily thinking about safety while feeling that it’s such a great adventure. Along the way, we saw that green is everywhere there. They’re tall but slim trees, many trees that we never see before. Our villagers told us the trees’ names and their uses accordingly with smile on their faces. We heard the great voice of some birds singing, it seems like they all welcome us to Prey Lang. How about the big and big trees? We saw only the base of the big trees. It’s actually a tragedy for that. It would be very great if those big trees still exist! It would be beautiful and peaceful if those big trees still stand in front of us! We felt very disappointed with that especially seeing the best tree types of our Prey Lang such as Beng, Neang Noun…left only their base. Where are their leaves and whole bodies? Who did this ugly thing? Some dirty guys did this, they deserve the bad deed some days. And one of our purpose is to see this and find the solution to protect our Prey Lang too. Our days in Prey Lang were full of joy in challenging a new life in the forest, full of sorrow in seeing our thousand-year-old trees were cut, full of memory in doing all actions with all participants…We won’t stop here, We won’t just go and see by doing nothing. We won’t let those dirty guys do whatever they want. We won’t let Prey Lang be alone and cry. We won’t leave the villagers there hopelessly especially Prey Lang Protectors! We’ll spread this news to the world, we’ll get their attention on Prey Lang, we’ll be there when Prey Lang needs us! So how? There’s only unification, there’s only love, there’s only commitment, there’s only passion can help us. Together we love and protect Prey Lang! 

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