Eastern Adventure Cambodia

📍 Techo International Airport - Phnom Penh(26 km): 60 mins

Welcome to Cambodia! Upon arrival at Techo International Airport, you will be welcomed by your local English speaking guide, who will accompany you to your hotel for check in (Normally the check-in time is at 14:00).

The rest of the day at leisure. 

Overnight in Phnom Penh.

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📍 Phnom Penh - Kratie (240km): 5 hours / Kratie - Koh Trong (5km): 10 mins

Early breakfast and Departure early to Kratie today around 07:30am.

On the way, stop to visit Skun, a village famous for its curious roadside snacks including grilled frogs, scorpions, and tarantulas! If you’re not bold enough to taste one of the creepy crawlers, it’s possible to play with the giant spiders who have been defanged prior to arrival at the market.

Arrive in Kratie, where you will have a short break to stroll around the town and stretch your legs before having lunch in a local restaurant in town.

Then hopping on the local ferry to Koh Trong Island, only a short 10 minutes boat ride away from Kratie. On this Mekong island experience typical Cambodian village life, where people’s livelihood largely depends on rice farming and fruit cultivation (Koh Trong is famous for its pomelo, a grapefruit like fruit). 

Upon arrival, you will be transferred by the hotel’s remork to check-in.

In the afternoon, grab a bicycle and cycle around the island. On this Mekong island experience typical Cambodian village life, where people’s livelihood largely depends on rice farming and fruit cultivation (Koh Trong is famous for its pomelo, a grapefruit like fruit).

Overnight on Koh Trong Island.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Koh Trong - Kratie (5km): 10 mins / Kratie - Kampi (15km): 50 mins / Kampi - Banlung, Ratanakiri (233km): 3h30

Breakfast at the hotel.

This morning the tour begins at 08:00, take the local ferry to Kratie town and continue north along the banks of the Mekong, a very scenic route with great views. Stop in the village Kampi, which is the best spot to view the rare Irrawaddy Dolphins along the Mekong. Board a local boat that will take you to some of the areas where these interesting creatures are sighted most frequently. Once you have spotted the first dolphin, your boat driver will turn the engine off and you will follow the dolphins silently (duration 1 to 1.5 hours).

Lunch break at a local restaurant (at your own expense) 
After lunch, depart to Banlung (Ratanakiri). Upon arrival in Banlung, stop at Eisan Reclining Buddha Pagoda, which offers panoramic views of the rapidly-growing provincial capital. Then transfer to your hotel. 

Overnight in Banlung (Ratanakiri).

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

📍 Ratanakiri

Breakfast at the hotel.

This morning the tour begins at 08:00. You will meet the Tampuon, a tribal community that populates Ratanakiri province. Visit their neighbor’s home where you can try your hand at weaving local textiles. Next, visit another village where a local resident will show you how rice wine is produced.

Have lunch in the home of a local Tampuon family, former village chief, a good opportunity to experience the local lifestyle.

After lunch, head over to Banlung’s star attraction: Yeak Laom. This almost perfectly circular lake in the middle of the forest was created by a volcanic eruption around 700,000 years ago. Take a walk around the lake, stopping at wooden decks along the waterfront to swim and relax with local visitors. The 2.5km trip around the lake takes 35 min, if you want you can enjoy a swim in the lake. Otherwise, enjoy the fresh, clear waters of the lake on a deck or in a hammock and enjoy the atmosphere.

Return to your hotel after the tour, spend the rest of the day at your own leisure. 

Overnight in Banlung (Ratanakiri).

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Ratanakiri

Departing your hotel at 8:00am, today explore the rural tribal communities that live in the Ratanakiri countryside. 

First stop at the Banlung market, soak up the lively atmosphere of the market and learn more about the different types of fruit, vegetables and other surprising culinary ingredients.

Continue to Kreung village, one of Ratanakiri’s diverse tribal communities, for a walk around their village. Now located just beside the road, this tribe had long been isolated from the rest of Cambodia before new infrastructure was developed in recent years. Notice the tobacco pipes that most of the women in the village enjoy and stop to chat with locals if you are curious about their lives. 

Back in town for lunch (at your own expense). 

In the afternoon, continue to the locals mining for the gems after which Ratanakiri province is named (“Ratanakiri” translates as “Mountain of precious stones“). Unlike modern mining methods that devastate the land, traditional mining consists of digging a small hole, down which a miner descends, sending buckets of earth up to sift through for stones.

Return to your hotel.

Overnight in Banlung (Ratanakiri)
 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

📍 BanLung - Sen Monorom (185km): 3 hours / Sen Monorom - Bousra Falls (35km): 45 mins

Breakfast at your hotel. 

Depart from your hotel at 08:00 am to Mondulkiri. After driving approximately 3 hours, check into your hotel and have lunch in town (at your own expense). 

Then head out to the natural highlight of the region: Bousra Ecopark and Waterfall, a particularly scenic two-tier waterfall and the largest in Cambodia where you can walk around and explore the beautiful falls. If you wish, it’s a perfect place for a cool dip or a refreshing drink while listening to the sounds of nature. 

Note: If enjoying time at the falls, where swimming is possible during the low-water months (approximately December to June), it is possible to stay here for lunch or a midday snack: there is a wide variety of exotic local fruits and nuts for sale at the falls.  Visitors with mobility issues may not be able to visit the lower falls, which requires descending a dirt trail through the forest that is particularly slippery in the Green Season months (June through November).

A coffee break at a local farm on the way back to town. You can stop along the way at the various plantations of the local people. Among others you might see pepper, cassava, rubber or even tea where your guide can stop briefly and explain the intricacies involved.  

Continue to the viewpoints of the Sea Forest and Phnom Doh Kramom, which are worth visiting before heading back. Return to the hotel. 

Overnight in Sen Monorom (Mondulkiri)

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

📍 Sen Monorom - Elephant Valley Project: 45 mins

Get picked up from your hotel at 7:00am for transfer to a meeting point of the Elephant Valley Project, a sanctuary for elephants within a 1,500 hectare reserve where the elephants can roam and learn how to be semi wild elephants again. Here you will hike (7 km) out to meet one group of elephants in the morning in their natural forest habitat. In this immersive experience you will spend half the day with the elephants, enjoy the observation of the elephants in their beautiful forest home (join-in activity).
Enjoy a delicious buffet lunch made by our local Bunong staff, rest in a hammock, and enjoy being truly immersed in nature. Depart back to Sen Monorom town after lunch at 2pm.

Note: As the elephants are located in valleys that are accessible by dirt trails and stairs, visitors with mobility issues may not be able to visit the elephants in their natural habitat and may be constrained to the elephant center and “elephant spa” during dry season months and may be unable to visit EVP during Green Season, when the path down to the center can be very slippery. Join-In tour is limited to 12 guests and only available Sunday-Friday.

Afternoon at leisure.

Overnight at Sen Monorom (Mondulkiri)
 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Sen Monorom - Jahoo Camp (30 km): 37 mins

Pick-up from your hotel at 04:30 am. Today, you will have a full day exploring with your expert local guide for trekking deep into the nature and wildlife sanctuary (join-in activity). 

We will head to the Camp located inside the core area of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary for wildlife viewing, with Critically Endangered Black-shanked Doucs, Yellow-cheeked, Crested Gibbon, Macaques, and other mammals of the Annamite, under the preparation of the local indigenous Bunong Tribe. The hike is quite strenuous yet you will enjoy yourself through the beautiful green forest and nice natural songs. 

Return at 08h00 for a breakfast at the camp and learn more about the conservation effort at Jahoo camp to protect endangered gibbons and other rare wildlife.

Have some rest and then prepare for a jungle hike deeper into the Wildlife Sanctuary. Explore the forest with your indigenous guide and discover other rare wildlife such as the giant black squirrel and northern pig-tailed macaque. Arrival at a sacred waterfall and enjoy a traditional lunch cooked in bamboo. If you wish, you can snooze and swim whilst surrounded by lush rainforest within the heart of the Protected Area. 

After more jungle trekking and spotting other endangered primates, such as black-shanked douc langur, return to the Bamboo Camp. Depart Jahoo and arrive back at your hotel by 17:00.

Note: 
Guests should have a good physical condition to endure hiking in a tropical climate on steep forest trails. We advise you to wear comfortable outdoor clothes of neutral colors (avoiding white, red, blue and black). Long trousers and long-sleeved tops are most culturally appropriate and provide best protection against biting insects and stinging plants.
We do not recommend Jahoo tours to people younger than 15 years old. 
Join-In tour is limited to 6 guests

Overnight at Sen Monorom (Mondulkiri)

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Sen Monorom- Kampong Cham (265km) 4 hours Kampong Cham- Phnom Penh (125km) 2.5 hours

Breakfast at the hotel. Then you will be transferred back to Phnom Penh. 

On the way, stop for lunch at a local restaurant in the town of Kampong Cham (at your own expense). 

Depending on the season, you may make a brief detour to visit Kampong Cham’s iconic bamboo bridge. Traditionally constructed each year to allow access to the island of Koh Pen in the Mekong River southeast of Kampong Cham, the bridge is later destroyed by the river as the water rises each rainy season. Although a new, permanent bridge has recently been constructed to the south, the locals continue to build the bamboo bridge as it draws both local and international tourists to the riverbank. 

Next, visit Nokor Bachey temple in Kampong Cham. Wat Nokor is both charming and interesting, featuring beautiful wall paintings adorning a modern Buddhist pagoda built inside the grounds of an Angkor-era temple, the only temple of such design in Cambodia.

Overnight in Phnom Penh
 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast

📍 Phnom Penh - Techo International Airport (26 km): 60 mins

Breakfast at a hotel.

Pick up by your guide and driver from the hotel and transfer to the airport for your departure flight.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast