Day two of motorcycle trip with my son, Paul. Location: Preah Vihear City to Preah Vihear Temple on the Cambodian-Thailand Border and back. Distance Traveled: 300 kilometers (10 hours driving) The second day was the temple we were really looking forward to visiting: Preah Vihear temple. If you Google this name, you will see it…
Day one of motorcycle trip with my son Paul. Location: Phnom Penh to Preah Khan Temple to Preah Vihear City. Distance Traveled: 400 kilometers (12 hours driving) My son turned 12 years old last month and is quickly becoming a man, so on my latest teaching trip into Northern Cambodia, I decided to take my…
We were broken down in the middle of the jungle with no hope of getting out. It was nothing short of a miracle to get to the next village. It took a miracle and all of us working together.
The T’moan people literally live in the middle of nowhere. They are 50 km (35 miles) to the closest village in any direction. Our journey there was uneventful, but our journey back brought us to utter dependence on God.
It is seven in the evening at the T’moan village. There are children playing outside running around little campfires. I am sitting in on a little log enjoying the nighttime noises with a little breeze keeping everyone cool.
There are many ways to get through a jungle. The easiest way to travel is to follow those who go before you. Usually they just walk on a path which becomes warn over time. The path is narrow and small, and is hardly ever straight, because a person is constantly adjusting his weight and movements according to the obstacles he faces, so the path reflects the journey.
Apocalypse Now was one of the historic Vietnam War movies starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in 1979. The story was about tracking down a maverick colonel who went rogue and set up his own kingdom in Cambodia where he was running operations. Most of the movie was traveling through the jungles. About half way through the movie they stopped at a French chateau in a remote border region between Vietnam and Cambodia. Off the beaten track where Lonely Planet guide books dare not even travel, I know of an abandoned French Plantation house. It sits up on the spine of a hill called “Crocodile’s Back”.