Meeting-Jakarta, Indonesia

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Phchum Ben Day 2008

I and other people give alms to the monk or we say in khmer word "Rab Bat". Do you know how many monks stay in this pagoda? It is unbelievable that there is only one monk who stay here with a few clergy man. The pagoda located at the disperse area and flooded, so there are not many khmer people live there, in contrast there are more Vietnamese people live there.


After the boat arrive at the destination, I come here and take a picture in front of the the gate of the pagoda. I want to tell you that the former name of the pagoda was "Ban Nam Pagoda" but now it changed to "Khemarak Reachea Karam Pagoda". This new name was changed after H.E Dr. Heng Tai Kry, went there and help develop that village with his colleague a few year ago, I don't remember the exact date, sorry for that.

Now I am on the boat with many people including Vietnamese that we will go to the pagoda together. It takes us about forty minutes to arrive there. We travel across a small Canal and through the large lake behind the village because the pagoda located in the west of my village. We left at 8:00 AM and we arrived at the pagoda around 9:40 AM.



This is my house at my hometown. It located in Kaam Samnor Krom village, Kaam Samnor commune, Leuk Dek district, Kandal province, Cambodia, Southeast Asia. My aunt cooked for me and I am about to go to the Bak Nam Pagoda with other people in the village.