Lucky Tours and The Green Carrot: Tanop Giant of Virachey forest

Option 1 : 3 Days/ 2 Nights(3-5 days trek)

Short description:

Virachey is the national park in North Eastern Cambodia. Its borders with Laos PDR and Vietnam, it covers an area of 3325²km. Virachey is one of the most deep and isolated jungles in Cambodia and is still largely unexplored and holds a large assortment of wildlife, waterfalls and mountains. Tanop giant of Virachey forest is the one in this area that we can offer an interesting jungle trek for multiple days with adventure.

During the trek you can enjoy the mountain view, crossing rivers, explore the unexplored, giving you a unique and memorable experience whilst learning about the local flora and fauna and meeting some exotic and vulnerable wildlife.

Get an insight of Kavet indigenous hill tribe whose livelihoods depend on its natural resource.

Highlight:

Beautiful panoramic view
Submerge in the evergreen semi-forest
Amazing boat trip on Olalai river.
Enjoy swimming in a very nice river, creek, and waterfall.
Jungle camping, lush and dense jungle.
Engaging indigenous community

Day one:

Assemble at our office at 8:10am and leave Banlung at 8:30am towards Voensai district, there are various ethnic minority people living around this area. So when we arrive there we can have a look at their busy small market, the earlier, the more vibrant and busier.
The boat trip starts from this point through Sesan river to the beautiful Olalai river, it takes approx. one hour.
Once we get to Kavet community village called “Tra”, we sign in with the chief to give our respects to him and the community, in order to enter their village.
This is the starting point of the trek, so the guide and ranger will carry most of the stuff, like food and some water, while visitors help to carry their own and some extra things like each hammock and three bottles of big water.
Trekking through jungle patches and some old abandoned nomadic farms of this tribal people and reach the jungle border around noon where we break for lunch.
Trek in the main jungle is about four hours in this first day.

First hour: Enjoy trekking in the vast bamboo forest

Second-forth hour: Climb up the mountain and trek in the many different sorts of giant trees, a beautiful panoramic view pass along the trek towards the camp site.

The shelter is settled near to a stream, if there is enough water you can enjoy the refreshing swim while the guide and ranger prepare the dinner on the campfire.
Enjoy the dinner near the campfire. Afterwards, by the candles, the guide will share stories until bed time.

Day Two:

There are more gibbons in the dry season to wake us up with their social or mating calls but if they are not around, there is always the usual orchestra of birds and mammals singing.
Approx. 7:00am we get up for breakfast while the guide and ranger untie the hammocks to prepare for trekking.
Day 2 trek involves more adventure and climbing the mountain, we could spot some wildlife if we are lucky ( like monkeys, black beer, giant horn-bill etc.).
The trek is approx. three hours in the morning then we get to a large steam where everybody can enjoy the swim.
After lunch we continue trekking for 2 hours to the west in order to make a loop, we reach second campsite which is settle at a beautiful spot near a big rapid that its’ water is so clear and surrounded by big hills.
Enjoy swimming in the nature and then have dinner like a family.

At 7:00pm everybody armed with only a head-torch, we go out for a night trek! It is very interesting and a bit scary. There is a much higher chance to see wildlife as many animals are nocturnal, including Loris, jungle cat, tiger cat, reptile, night birds etc.

Day Three:

Get up at 6:00am if you like to climb to see a beautiful sunrise besides this you can see a great view including the grassland near the border of Laos.
After breakfast we head back through the forest to the village, on the way we can visit and learn the culture of Kavet indigenous people living in this remote area.
After passing those villages, we get to the ferry and cross it back and come back Banlung around 5:00pm.

Enjoy your trek!!!

***Important note:

This itinerary is written based on our research expeditions. It should be read in order to get a good impression and NOT as a detailed hour by hour itinerary.

Lucky Tours Adventure Trekking Ratanakiri, Cambodia has the right to change parts, or divert the route of the trek due to extreme weather and terrain conditions for your safety and /or in order to follow guidelines of the indigenous rangers without any prior notice.

Things to bring for trekking:

• Clothes: Long trousers, T-shirts, Bathing suit, a set of clothes for the night.

• Footware: Sturdy boots, socks, flip flops

• Toiletries: Insect repellent, Suncream, Towel

• Sun Hat or Cap

• Head-torch

• First Aid Kit

• Purified Water pills if you have, optional

• Backpack

Note : We can use a porter if you have a lot of stuff with you. How we sleep? For Camping, we make a shelter and we use hammock attached mosquito-net and blanket for sleeping.

The price includes:

• Professional, Good English speaking guide

• Indigenous ranger expert tracker

• All necessary Transportation (Car, Moto, Tuk-Tuk, Boat, etc)

• All Meals (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

• Beverages (Water, Coffee and Tea)

• All sleeping Equipment: Hammock, Mosquito-net, Blanket and Tent

• All Entrance Fees

Lucky Tours and The Green Carrot