'New forest' 20 years living alone in the deep forest

Leaving the village, Mr. Ho Van Chau went to the mountain to build a hut to live for 20 odd years between the deep forest on the middle of Ca Dam mountain, highland district of Tra Bong (Quang Ngai).

Ca Dam ecological area complex, highland district of Tra Bong (Quang Ngai) - where Mr. Ho Van Chau (68 years old, living in Tang hamlet, Tra Bui commune) builds a lonely hut between deep forests for the past 20 years.

Chau's hut is located in the middle of a deep forest in Tang village, Tra Bui commune.According to local people, 20 years ago, this man left the village to build a hut to live in the forest until now.

Mr. Chau is a native of the Cor ethnic group but knows three languages: Kinh, H're and Cor. "I lived in the forest, so I was in a crowded and noisy village. From the day I came here, I built a total of 5 huts on the mountain to live in, mainly by roofing with sap, rattan and bamboo. . Two years ago, the villagers supported a few religious plates for me to do this fifth hut to stay here, " Chau said.

Taking advantage of the natural mountain, he erected a stilt-style hut on three solid stones.The kitchen was arranged on a flat rock to cook, tea to drink and a place to sleep by the stove at night.

Loving the lonely situation of Mr. Chau, in 2016, villagers distributed fields, pruned rice or donated some vegetable varieties to help him gain more food to live in the mountains.

Harvest season, he plucked rice with his hands then brought back his "home" to the drying stove, reserve gradually.

He chiseled a forest tree to make pestles, mortars pounding rice into rice to cook.

In addition, this particular man also thought of how to use the tree trunk, some types of forest wires to trap animals to improve meals and get bile as medicine to cope with the harsh weather in the deep.

The cultivation area around the hut, Mr. Chau grows many types of sweet potato, cassava, ginger, turmeric, chilli, cinnamon, gourd, banana . and many kinds of apricot apricot trees used as medicine and detoxification.

Everyday, Mr. Chau only eats two meals, mostly rice and wild rice.In order to have daily drinking, cooking and bathing water, he used an umbrella to connect water from the stream to the hut.

In contrast to the wild life, Mr. Chau's feet were lumpy, always muddy with dirt.

At night, he slept by the narrow kitchen of the hut.

To cope with the cold winter weather between deep forests, Mr. Chau stored cigarettes, chillies and long pot plants (each piece of firewood with his hands could keep the fire smoldering for 3 nights without turning off) and keep medium heat.

Mr. Chau said that the greatest joy is that sometimes villagers go to the forest to visit and chat happily and support themselves with salt, monosodium glutamate, clothes .