Before I went to Phnom Penh, I had one last stop, Mondulkiri province. This province has a famous view point, that is called 'the sea of forest' and ' Cambodia's biggest waterfall', enough said, I needed to go. It was a little taste of Canada if I had to compare it to anything, more specifically, Ontario. It was great to see rolling green hills and feel cool weather (for once in Cambodia I got to wear a scarf!). The timing was a little off, since the rainy season was still on, there were no floods like Kratie, but it was wet. My bicycle is not really the kind of thing to take off roading in the mud. It was a bit of a disaster, but so terrible it was once again really funny, for me and everyone watching. Sometimes I was thigh deep into the mud trying to pull out my submerged bicycle…. A messy messy time. However, I did reach my viewpoints, visited beautiful pagodas, attend tribal ceremonies, discreetly visited tribal villages, coffee plantations and two waterfalls, Boursa water fall standing amongst the top ten I've seen so far. I could have stayed and watched Boursa for days. As for Sen Monorom the main town of the province, it was a ghost town, full of army suited men, with obvious illegal deforestation going on. Very sad sight to see, in one of the remaining greenest 'protected' (tree wise) provinces left in Cambodia. Even my minibus back to the capital had some illegal wood in the back, as did the other vans, mostly packed in secret compartments under the seats. It was not like the police didn't know what's going on either. A little money out the window at the checkpoints and off you go. Terrible reality in Cambodia, the poor sell their land to the economically advanced countries in the region (Vietnam, Thailand, China…), the wood is then resold to the Western countries. Be aware of the origins of your furniture, ignorance is earth's biggest threat.