Kampong Speu: A strange resort area with natural boiling water phenomenon, which the locals call Te Teuk Puh, is an area more than 60 kilometers from the provincial town of Kampong Speu. The watershed is also home to indigenous Sui people. Today, this area is very attractive to national and international tourists to visit this strange natural phenomenon. This natural peculiarity is also believed by locals to be associated with a legend that has left this hot spring area and the name of some of the villages in the area to this day.

According to the description of the representative of the Sui indigenous people, Ko Dauntey village, Trapeang Chor commune, Oral district, Ms. Men Samin told the legend: In the past, there was a rich man with gold the size of a ripe coconut. The millionaire has two children, a son and a daughter, who were separated from small to large adults. Fearing to find his son, who was left behind by the villagers who lived in another village, when he grew up, he wore a gold ring on his ankle, which is now known as “roleak korcheang.” Later, when her son grows up, he does not allow his adopted daughter to take him to another family, even if he is engaged to be a bride.

He and his wife decided to avoid splitting their wealth by splitting the gold into two ripe coconuts, and he decided to marry his children, who separated when they were young, to marry his own daughter. After thinking about it, he arranged the wedding of his children, who were his siblings, inviting a large number of guests, except for one grandmother, who was not invited by the millionaire. Not only that, the millionaire even took the crocodile that his grandmother raised to cook for the guests. The wedding took place on the 15th day of the month of Pisak, which is now the traditional festival of the Sui people.

In the case of Yeay Tey, after learning that the millionaire married and had children, they were very worried and did not go nearby on the day of entering the factory. At night, she suddenly dreamed that the ambassador came and told her that tomorrow she would not be allowed to go near the place where she was having children. She woke up in a dream and was scared. She was alone in the house and did not go out. She prayed that if she was alive, she would shave her head for the earth in the village where she lived. This is what happened in that area, there is a village called Ko Dauntei village until today.

In the case of the millionaire’s house, a large number of people came to participate. When the sacrificial ceremony began, a strange phenomenon occurred. Seeing such a scene, the frightened grandmother fled from that place to a hill, and now the hill has become a forest area of ​​Phnom Te. He shaved his head there as he had prayed for the earth and lived there until he had a family and a son.

After the birth of her son, her husband went to be an ascetic on Phnom Khchoul (Oral), and she named him “Sweet Cucumber”. As for the place where the water boils, after the earth absorbs all the people who come to attend the ceremony of the Sui millionaire, the place suddenly becomes water flowing from the ground and is still hot.

Source: Ministry of Environment