Sunday, November 11, 2012

Yeak Loum Lake in Ratanakiri Province

      Beung Yea Loam Resort is the natural lake, which locates at the middle of the mountain in Yeak Loam Commune, Ban Lung District in five-kilometer distance from the Ban Lung town. The lake has square shape, approximate 800-meter diameter and 48-meter depth during the dry season, and occurs by volcano for centuries. Believed to be around 700,000 years old, this crater lake is about 50 metres deep at the deepest point. Aside from the trail around the lake, another 850-metre path takes you up into the forested hill beside the lake and leads to the road from the main entrance.
Tourists like going to Yeak Loam Lake for swimming and hiking along the forest surrounding the lake; they usually packaging their food along when going. Yeak Loam Lake worshipped by ethnic minorities at the nearby because they believe that there is spirit who lives, protects and owns the territory and forest here


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