Bad habit... again...

I'm always like this...

If I want to do something, I'll keep thinking about it a lot and a lot... And pause what I'm doing for awhile even though it's quite important thing.

Like this time...

I start to think of traveling again... and pause doing my thesis.

Yeah, I know that my thesis is important... but I can't help! I just can't stop thinking about going somewhere again.

What a bad habit!!
I DO know that I should finish the thesis before entertain myself!!

OK... let me tell you about my plan.

Actually, I have some money and I'm planning how to spend them.


1. A watch

I get use to having something on my wrist, and it's a watch. After my favorite one's straps were torn, I couldn't find any straps that were alike. So I think it's time to get a new.

It seems hard to find a watch that fits my wrist... Well, because my wrist is small, so the watch I want has to be small, too.

Anyway, forget about watches and follow me to another choices.


2. A volunteer camp

It's "5 days 4 nights" camp. It's about teaching hill-tribed children Thai and English in the north of Thailand, Chaingrai.

The camp is managed by a Thai NGO which their purpose is to develop hill-tribe communities around the north of Thailand. I wished to join them once and I think this camp would be a good beginning.


3. An extra class

"Huh?? Say again??" That's what my mom said when she heard me told her I wanted to take a class of baby massage. Also my ex laughed when I told him that I wanted to take a Thai food class. I told them that I just want to learn something new and the class (any classes) would give me something excitement.

But finnaly, I didn't take any yet. Maybe this time would be a good chance for a class?



OK...

Forget all of those 3 choices...

The most fragrant choice is here...


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4. Trip!!
Yeah!! I want trips!!

After my last trip to Koh Tao, I want another and another and another...

See where I wish to go...



4.1 Samui and Phuket

Credit to : http://www.bloggang.com/viewblog.php?id=chettapat&date=24-04-2009&group=36&gblog=8

Samui is an island in Suratthani, a province in the south of Thailand. Also Phuket, it's a south province and the biggest island. There're long white beautiful beaches there. I want to go there since I never had any chances to visit there and I love diving and canue trip!

Going there must take several days so that I could visit all attractions. Also... high budget... which I'm not sure if I could afford. :-S


So now.. I'm trying to convince some people to go with me, so the budget would be shared and there'd be some companions so that I wouldn't be lonely like the last trip I had.

4.2 Phu Soi Dao

Credit to : http://www.ezytrip.com/webboard/images/10000/00800/00781.jpg

Phu Soi Dao is a national park in Pittsanulok, a province in the north of Thailand. The national park consists of high mountains, beautiful virgin forests and flora fields. The trip to Phu Soi Dao is kind of hiking and adventure which is my favorite!!

4.3 Chaing Khan

Credit to : http://www.tessabanchiangkhan.go.th/indexcopy.jpg

Chiang Khan is a district in Loei, a northeast province. Nothing interesting if you want shopping or hiking here. All you can do around this area is just treking, bicycling and sight seeing.
This little district is famous for its culture and lifestyle. As I said, nothing much to do here, but for a girl who loves peace and silence as myself, I can spend the whole day escaping bobbery in Bangkok, sitting by a river, breathe breezy air in while waiting for the sunset into Mae Khong river in the evening.
Going to Chiang Khan only takes about a few days with lower than 2,000 Baht budget. So if I'm impatient, I could pack my stuffs and take a bus ride there tomorrow!!


Oh uh...
I should concentrate on my thesis...
But tell me how I can do it when all of those places keep whispering into my mind...
It's saying "Come, Khwan. Come......."


Fine!
Guess I know what I'm gonna do...

I'll plan my another trip right now!!

It's on my bday!!

Alright...



Guess my this year birthday would be more exciting than the past years ones. There'll be a partial solar eclipse here on July, 22nd.



I remember when I was 6th grade, there was a total solar eclipse in Thailand.



My family and I went to Nakhon Ratchasima, a province in the north east of Thailand to saw this natural phenomenon. We all were so excited.



At that time, I was picked by my elementary school to join the Thailand junior astronomical quiz competition. So I had little knowledge about this phenomenon (which have been totally forgotten.) I told my uncle and cousins how to make hand-made solar ecliptic glasses. I can recall that it's quite fun. We bought blackwhite film and made it sunbathed for awhile. Then we used a cardboard to make glasses and stuck the film on the paper as they're lenses, then decorated the glasses.



For astrology, this phenomenon means something bad. This belief is influenced by Hindu. People who believe in this should find black edible things (there should be 8 things -- don't ask why, I don't even know!) to make offerings to the spirit called "Pra Rahu." I recall that there're black-coloured oblations everywhere.

Pra Rahu

(Want more information, ask Mr.Wikipedia-->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahu)

Those black edible oblations could be --

black chicken

One of my favorite dessert, Chau Kuay.

It's a black sweet Chinese jelly dessert made from a plantkind.

(Picture credit to : http://www.bloggang.com/viewdiary.php?id=cojilovekimji&month=07-2008&date=01&group=10&gblog=1)

Piak Poon, Thai sweet blackened jelly
(Picture credit to : http://www.bloggang.com/mainblog.php?id=jjbd&month=24-09-2007&group=23&gblog=28)

Century eggs
(Wanna know what it is, also ask Mr.Wikipedia-->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg)

And for modern people who have this belief, it could even be...

Essence of Chicken!!

The other could be...
- black coffee
- Cola
- boiled black sticky rice
- dark red grapes (Not black?? Well... try to see them black, then!)
- black whisky
and etc...

Some people believe that if the solar eclipse takes place on anyone's birth date, that ones would be unlucky for the rest of the year.

And my this year birthday, I'll turn 25... which is not good for Thai belief. (We have many believes, don't we.) At this age, Thais believe that it's unlucky year, also include ages 35, 45 and 55.

Or... should we be called... superstitious??

So... my age 25 doesn't seem good in people's thoughts. Though I'm not one of those people. But there's a Thai expsession, "Even though you don't believe it, but don't disrespect it." So I won't do anything against these believes just for making my family to be happy.

Back to the topic -- the solar eclipse

This solar eclipse will be on 22nd July. It'll be a total eclipse in India, China, Japan and south Pacific ocean. For Thailand, this phenomenon will be just only a partial solar eclipse -- since around 7am and will last for about 2 hours through 9.20 am. In bangkok, the sun will be mostly covered about 42.2% around 8.03am.

Hope I'd be awake in time. :-P

An almost forgotten trip.

It's about 2 months ago that I've traveled to Tao Island, an island in the south of Thailand. I've planned to go there for awhile before this trip could become true.


Let me tell you a story of the idea of this trip.


It's happened when I surfed for something (which I can't remember what it was) on the internet. I found the trip on a website of a tourism agency. And when I looked at the price of the trip... the day after, I went to a bank to check the amount of money I had in my account. Then I found that... I could go... and I did want to go.


I didn't tell anyone about this trip since I knew what they would reply me.


"How can you go alone?"

or..

"It's too dangerous for a girl."

or even..

"You're not allowed." (Of course, that would be from my mom.)


So I kept it secretive and meant to let everyone know when I would be on the bus which was the beginning of the trip.


Well... I did feel guilt when I thought how much my mom and family would be worried about me... So about few days before the trip, I decided to tell mom about this...


And... what I was worried became true.


Mom asked me, "how could you go there alone?" Then she sulked... and said, "You don't have to tell me. You already planned to go on your own without asking me, didn't you."


So.. before I went on my trip, one duty that had to be done was to reconcile with my mom.


Anyway, in case you don't know, I'll let you know something about me. I'm stubborn enough to insist what I want to do. And you know what? I went on my trip finally.


While enjoying the trip, I just knew that there's an exchange - the trip with mom's allowance. It's that she would call me every 30 minutes... However, the trade was acceptable.







I left Bangkok around 9.30pm on... well... it's so long time that I can't remember the exact date. So.. just take that it's one Friday in the past May.


The bus took about 8 hours to get to Ban Toong Makham Noi pier. There's a German women who I thought she didn't realize that the weather in Thailand was much differ from her home country. I guessed... she might forget to shower. And I also guessed... she must have forgotten to do it for few days.


Her scent was so nice... that made me got a headache and couldn't sleep. What a bad time I had on the bus!


I arrived at the pier around 5.30am. All I did when I was waiting for the boat was trying to find new friends. Luckily, I got 3!! One was a girl who went there to meet her friends. Another two was a couple taking vacation there and stayed at the same hotel as me.

5.30am at Ban Toong Makham Noi pier

One thing that I prepared myself to face with was the price of stuffs on the island. It would cost more about 50% or even two times of the normal price on the mainland. There's a good preparation for tourist before the real situation... It's the breakfast I had... 90 Baht for a 15-cm.-long ham baquette sandwich!

The boat took about an hour and a half - 2 hours to Tao island. I had to wait for the hotel's car to pick me up.

After I've checked in, I was thinking about renting a motorbike to ride around the island. I knew that I wasn't good at riding this vehicle but it's much cheaper than an AVT car. After took awhile to make decision, I decided to pick the cheapest option, my feet.

I walked along Sai Ree beach, round walking trip, about 2 times. There's a lot of foriegn tourist and very few Thais. And well.. because of that, I had to confess... I had a good time there. :-P

In the evening, the couple I met at the pier invited me to a pub on the beach. I also made new friends there. They're 3 guys from several countries and just met there. I always think that this is a good thing of being guy. They can make new friends easier than girls.


After taking a walk along the beach at night, I was thinking about walking along a track back to the place I stayed. There's not electric lights on the track but only the light from restaurants and hotels at the both sides that could light it. So some parts of this tiny walking street were dark. The couple asked me to ride with them. They said... it's not any good if there something happened. Also there's a warning written in Tao island guide and some signs said, "Don't walk alone in the dark. We warn you!!" So they told me, for a girl who came travel by herself, "safety first" was the best.


It's unusual to see me watching TV. But this night on the island was an exception. There's nothing to do in the room since I couldn't go hang out alone. (The reason is in the above paragraph, plus... I didn't dare to walk alone in the dark for many reasons.) All I did was talking on the phone with someone (thank you to him, he made me feel less lonely) and went to bed earlier than usual.

I woke up so early in the morning. Well, I'd rather say I didn't sleep well and was awake almost every hours. I guess it's because of it's different place and... I had nothing to cram. Those always are the reason that I couldn't sleep well when I have to stay at different place but home.

It's a little bit disappointing morning. It's raining and cloudy, I didn't expect to have cloudy and rainy day at the sea. I walked on the beach again. It's quite quiet and there's a few tourist was awake.

In the late morning, a truck picked us (the couple and me) up at the hotel to a pier. We had diving trip today. And, YES!! the sun came out finally!!

Though I loved this snorkeling trip but I couldn't say I enjoyed the boat ride much. I got a bad seasick. But the worst thing was... well, it's mix feeling. Maybe this picture could tell you what I felt...

I didn't want to be alone...

The last place we went dive was Nang Yuan island. It's very nice place!! I wish to go there again. Of course, next time I'll take someone with me.

There's a Thai expression, "Finally, the party has to end." The vacation was over and I had to back home.

I said goodbye to the couple. I really appreciated them. They're nice, had good heart and were worried about a stranger like a stubborn girl like me.

The hotel truck drove me to the same pier where I've arrived. I didn't have a good time on the boat... There's a foriegn couple sit by me. They hugged and kissed each other while The Lord of The ring #2 were playing on the boat. After I've tried to focus on watching the movie for awhile... I felt like I lost my patience. Hmmm.... Well... Hey!!! Can you just stop doing that??? I envy!!

When I was at the pier and in the line to pick the seat on the bus, I told myself to pick carefully... since I've learned lesson on the way came here... that I should be aware of people whom I would sit near...

The ticket seller was surprised to hear that I traveled alone. She repeated 3 times if I really came by myself. Finally, She picked this seat for me.

The seat which there's no one sit by...

It's empty... the seat by me...
Anyone wanna take a ride beside me?

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What a quality of life I have!!

Where my house locates is called "Sena village." It's a big old village of Bangkok. My mom said that when they moved here, some area around were rice fields. And look at it now... no any fields but full of habitations as you can see.

This is what Google Earth shows the way to my house.

The red line is Phahonyothin road, a main road of Thailand from Bangkok to the North. It's my usual way to my University, malls and it's straight to the center of Bangkok.


The point that the red converge the blue is a bus stop, a market and it's an informal tiny taxi station which is necessary for people who live around the blue line, include myself.

The tiny taxi station

The blue line is an about-3.5-Km.-long road. (We call small roads that are branches of the main road "Soi.") It's where I need to rely on this transportation called "Pok Pok" or tiny taxi.

From what you see, There're seats for 6 people in the back of the coachwork. Three people have to sit opposite to another three and another one passenger sit beside the driver.


Riding in this car along the blue line takes about 15-30 minutes (sometimes it's even 45 minutes) to get to my destination, my house or the bus stop, depends on the speed that's the driver's satisfaction or the mood they're in.


Being a passenger of this vehicle type........ For many reasons, I can't say that it's quite safe.
Sometimes it feels like I'm riding a roller coaster; fast, extremely and scary. Sometimes it's like... it'd be faster if I walk instead.


Today I went out to a mall and took this taxi as usual. While I was on the car and it stopped at a red light, the driver of the car I took got off from his seat to check the tires. There's another car driver parked beside got off from his car to talk to him. Here's their conversation...



"How much they cost?"

"5,xxx Baht. I don't think there's need to get new ones."

"Hey.. be careful. It maybe explode like it has happened once."

"Yeah... I have no idea if we could even get to the market." (He meant the destination.)

"What if it explodes?"

"Well, though the last time that it exploded was while I was driving, but no one got serious injured from that."



Unexpectedly..., another passenger and I looked at each other... Well, we had nothing to say... since we had no choice to choose any other transpartations but only these thin tin cars.

At the end of the blue line, I have to get off the taxi and walk along the orange line. The orange is a side street to my place. It takes about 5-10 minutes to walk (about 500 meters.)

At the entrance of the side street, it once used to be called a "dangerous zone of Bangkok" !!!

During daytime on weekday, it'd be a bit quiet. But currently, thanks to a noodle shop, 24-hour minimart and food venders around, so during lunch time and weekend, there'd be many people there.

But if it's night time....... check out the below pictures...

Too dark to see??
OK, I'll use flash light...

Is it better now??
Maybe you can see clearer that it's bottomless??

Three lights along 500-meter side street..... Yes.. that's enough to call it a risky point...

Along this small road... I had bad experiences since I was young. There're several times I found sexual psychos. Once when my cousin and I walked along the street, there's a guy rode a motorbike and parked in front of us. He unzipped his trousers and showed us his ABC...!!!

Considering about my journey from the main road to my house, from the blue to the end of the orange line, and thinking about the safety the tiny cars provide us... plus the light side street..., I can't think of anything but move!!

Sattaheep temple fair

Yesterday I took my little nephew to a temple fair near my uncle's house in Sattaheep, Chonburi. This kind of fair usually locates in or near temple area. It's a fun time and place for people to enjoy. In the past, this fair was like a chance to hang out and find new people. Nowaday, it's hard to find a fair like this in Bangkok. I guess the bigest temple fair in Bangkok is about Loi Kratong festival period at the golden mountain.

The golden mountain fair

Picture from www.oknation.net/blog/petpetpe/2007/11/25/entry-1

Back to the fair which I'm talking about...


Because the fair was in a temple area, so I firstly walked and looked around. There's a Buddhist sanctuary in the center of the fair. As a Buddist, I went inside to worshiped Buddha statues.

White lotuses, 3 joss sticks and a candle to worship Buddha statues.

I also gilded golden leaves on the statues's hands to remind myself to always do good things.

Almost every temples, there's a "Seum Si," a cylinder of foretell sticks. It's a Chinese belief to predict a future. All you have to do with it is to joggle the cylinder until a stick fall down, then you'd get your number on the stick. If there're many sticks fall at the same time, pick the stick that falls first. And if you try joggling it many times and still get many sticks fall altogether... , your life may be too complicated to predict, then.

This's what I've got, No. 9

When you get your number from the stick, go to a board which fortune papers are stuck on and get your prediction. Usually, it's Thai poetry which sometimes it's hard for me to undertand. :P

This is my fortune...

Your luck is good... There won't be any problems in anywhere you'll go or anything you'll do...

(Hmmm... If that's true, what about my thesis, then??)

You'll meet people who you haven't seen for years.

(Yeah... I'll have a meeting with college friends next week. But I haven't seen them just for months.)

If you're sick, it will take awhile more than usual to get better.

(Luckily... My health's pretty good now.)

About your love... be patient.. and don't rush.

(Hmm... I'm kind of impatient person... but I don't rush for this.

So what can I do? One more shaking?)

There're many kinds of booths, such as food, gifts, copied electronic stuffs and some amusement booths.

This is one of my favorite.. quail egg fried on a griddle which there're holes orderly on it.

If you don't understand what I'm trying to explain... check out the left picture.

After adding soy sauce and pepper... Hmm... yummy!

Amusement booths, usually for kids.

Mini racing booth and an art corner for kid

A combination of merry-go-round and roller coaster plaything

Giant slider, only for kids




Home-made Ferris wheel...

Though I'm scared of hight... but a reason why I don't join this wasn't that.

It's only because I love my life and still have many things I want to do.

Shooting booth

My little nephew's so serious about his shooting.

This is my target.

One... a head

One... a chest

One... through a heart

One... a rib

Two... arms

And four... stomach (actually I tried to unman the target man)

Maybe I should take a shooting course???

So that next time, I can easily shoot every bullets to his crotch.

A journey will begin within few weeks.

I like feelings of journey. Like to see views outside the transportation change and change.

And I'm excited at thinking that... what's waiting for me..


I can recall...

Once, my dad told me that in our lives, there're 2 area types.

Dad called "Comfort zone" and "Dangerous zone."

The differences of both areas are risk and feeling toward them.

Comfort zone is where we're accustomed with. It's where we feel comfortable and safe. The approximate risk is zero or almost zero.

Dangerous zone is the place that the risk is over than zero.


Then I think...
It means that everyday in my life... there're red areas much more than white areas, aren't there.

Because just step out of my place, the percent of risk increases rapidly.

But I think... It's challenged.
If we hind ourselves only in safety zone... what enjoyment in life we would have.


Right?


Journey is a form of walking to red area.
There're risks surround, especially for a tiny and delicate one like me,

both risk to be physical injured or inner injured.


They're just depend on my luck...


As I said, I like journeys. I like the feeling of journey.

I like how it feels when I close my eyes in one place and it turns out to be another one when I open them.
I like to find new things and getting to know people around.


Living life... is a form of journey, isn't it.


I don't like my life to be ordinary, but love to search for some excitements for it.
They may be good? bad? smile? or tears...
But those make my life to be lively.


:)


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Next few weeks, my journey will start again.
Now I'm looking forward to that.

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Tao island...

See you soon... :)

It's a trip for exercise.

About a month ago, my friend from Mahidol university asked me and the other friends to go to Phu Kradueng in Leuy province together. I never had any idea to visit this place before; because I thought it's too far away and there's no-one like this kind of trip like me. It's kind of adventure trip which I much prefer than going shoping in a mall. After I took little time to check the number in my bank account and was sure that after the trip, there still would be something left for my collecting data, without any doubt, I jumped into the trip.

After I told my mom that I'd go to Phu Kradueng, what you think my mom would say??? Not hard to guess, isn't it.

"Again? Khwan? You never asked me if I allow you to go."

Not that I was stubborn or didn't listen to her or something... but.. well, I wanted to go....

Hmmm...... did that call stubborness???

Well, at last, I went there with my friends. We left Bangkok around 9:50pm on Friday night and arrived at a local restuarant on the next day early morning. It's a resting point where there were rest rooms and washbasins for us to clean ourselves and got ready to climb up the mountain.

We had to take this red pick-up to the national park.

It costed 20 Baht per each and took about 20 minutes to get to the park.

When we arrived at the national park, we had to buy tickets to got into the park. It's 40 Baht for Thais. But... well, please forgive us... Besides argricultural and developing country, Thailand is a tourist industrial country, also. So we need some money from foriegn tourist, that's why we might seem cruel for you foriegners.... We'll cost you just 10 times of Thai price... 400Baht only.

This picture can tell us that people who want to go to Phu Kradueng are not really great... Because if you or we, include me, were stong and as awesome as you would show off your ability that you can climb up the Phu Kradueng...., there must have not been this picture.

Well, if you think you're really strong enough, just buy a ticket and go climb the mountain. But if you're not, me as well, you'd have to thrust your burden upon these guys in the picture above.

After weighted our baggages for calculted wage to carry them up to the top of the mountian, our belongings would be tied with a big bamboo, waiting to be carried on the shoulder of.... well, I really can't find this word in English... maybe "carrier."

The belongings were ready to be carried...

If you said that guy is the strongest one, check this out!!!

Are you as strong as the woman in the picture???

I had never said this to anyone, especially to guys.

But well.... I can't live without you, man.

After we took about a few hours and had to climb higher and higher....

This was our hero...

Energy drink...

I really never had any idea about drinking this stuff... but it exactly was able to rescue me.

Climbed upper and upper.... more and more tired...
Like you're losing your way in dessert, at a second you thought you would stop breathing, then you'd find an oasis....

Luckily, it wasn't an illusion;

so we could have rest as long as we wanted.

But unluckily...., the higher oasis was, the more expensive stuff they'd cost.

Not only for tourist, but the rest point was a place for carriers to rest thier burden as well.

What are that??? An ant and an elephant???

There you'll see a lot of people there, climbing up the mountain at the same time with us. My friend said to me... what are they doing here??? Well, they might have the same question to us, too.

Here was the end of "climbing way." There still were about 3.8 Km to walk...

I started to wonder... what my legs're made of... I might sleep very, very tight tonight.

Walk till you forget where you're going to...

It seemed like it's longer than 3.8 Km....

Finally!!!! I could do it!!!!!

This was our huge tent. It could contain us six easily.

Many tents orderly were there, maybe there're about over 400 or something.

Well, I didn't exactly count...

After we found our tent, then we planned what we'd do next.

We found that the nicest thing to do that time, well...the evening would come quickly, so we decided to see the sunset at Mog Doog cliff where we had to walk about 3Km form the tent area.

We couldn't be there in time...

The sun set before we got there. But this was the nicest scene I ever seen.

Back to the tent area, there's a cafeteria for us to bought some food.

Many local retaurants sold expensive food. Do you believe that a dish of rice and simple Thai omelet would cost almost 40 Baht??? But if you saw how they carry thier stuff here, I believe you would have no doubt to pay even 100 Baht for a dish.

After finish our dinner and very very cold showering, we fell asleep so easily, more easily than ever.

In the morning, we woke up earlier than usual. First thing after washed up and teeth brushed was to fill our stomaches with some food.

Nothing would be better than a cup of Thai milk tea made by yourself.

We had bicycle riding trip to some tourist attractions, such as no-watered waterfall and cliff-es. Though friends complainned that their bums were sore, mine too, but I enjoyed the trip and had a great time.

They're the trip planners. I was just a tourist who joined the team.

It's good that I wasn't an organizer of the trip, so I could ask for anything I wanted, such as napping or more Coke.

The last destination we went, Lom Sak cliff, where's a very good place to see sunset.
The rock I sit and the tree in the picture were very famous(!?!?!?!?!).

Was it like... if you didn't take picture right there, that meant you didn't get there!?!?!?!?

And check this out...

People queue up just to take photoes at the rock???? Crazy!!!!

Well.... I was one of those, too. But I just did that just to avoid my friend's complain. Does it sound like an excuse???

Don't be worry. I won't jump!!!

Finally, we could see sunset at Mog Doog cliff in time.

I bring you the sun. :D

At the second night, we fell asleep more easily than the night before.... I guess we should have thanked the riding trip.

On the last day, we left the tent early. We had to be at the bus stop around 3pm. That meant we had not much time to climb down the mountain.

Before climbing up, my backpack weighted 6 Kg and the same weight after the trip. They costed me 15 Baht/Kg, so mine was 90 Baht on both way up and down the mountain.

In this t-shirt.... tell me I wasn't the most prominent one on the mountain.

There's a big sign at the foothill, "wish you're healthy."

Yeah... I would be healthy just because I didn't fall down the mountain.

The way back home....

Ohhhh noooooo, I didn't really want to back to my thesis!!!!!

Anyway.... I was ready to back home.

The sunset on the way back home was as beautiful as it was at Mog Doog cliff.

Hmmmm.... that meant I might not have to climb the mountain to see the sunset on the top of Phu Kradueng, but I could see sunset anywhere????

For more information about Phu Kradueng, follow this --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phu_Kradueng_National_Park