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Travel Blogs from Chi Phat, Cambodia
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Our night in the jungle!!
... so it was time to move on. Sami spoke to a friend who recommended we visit a trekking conservation area in the Koh Kong province called Chi Phat. One of my ambitions on this journey was to spend a night in the jungle and this seemed like the perfect ...
Off the Tourist Trail
... Cardamom Mountains for hardy travellers'. Well, MY interest was peaked! A place that used to be extensively logged and poached, Chi Phat was it's base. Now with a community centred eco-tourism project, we can help contribute to the preservation of the ...
Brian's Travel Tips: Coconuts
There's one thing in the jungle I have come to realize that is far more dangerous, far more frighting, more terrifying than any creature you can imagine. It is a menace that attacks unseen, always from above...deadly and silent: the coconut! Every year, ...
Stories from Chi Phat
***There is one main street: dusty and potholed, covered with chickens followed by their chicks as well as the occasional pig, cow and water buffalo pulling a cart. People are always moving, either driving their mopeds with their entire families on the ...
Brian's Travel Tips: Fishing
Fishermen are all the same. It doesn't matter if you're fishing with a Russian, or someone from Tuktayuktuk. Fishing transcends language. They all mumble the same, point the same, laugh at the same things, and are all out for the largest catch they ...
Brian's Travel Tips: Arachnid? Insect?
Tips on petting a Giant Asian Forest Scorpion When you come across a scorpion in the Cambodian jungle, resist the urge to pet it. We all know that they look so cuddly and cute, so resisting the urge will be difficult. Once you get past the 'leave me ...
Chi Phat
... to interact with the local community and gave us a great insight into Cambodian life. We would definitely recommend Chi Phat to anyone coming to Cambodia. Cambodia as a whole has been fantastic, the people are the friendliest we have met so far and we ...
Into the Cardamoms
... with a small pond where we saw a couple of stork-like birds. According to the trek itinery which we read the day before in Chi Phat's ecotourism office, we were supposed to have spent the night here so that we could watch animals and birds at the pond at ...
We won't be getting fat in Chi Phat
... this later. On a public internet cafe computer to fill in time. Spent two horribly memorable but funnily enjoyable nights in Chi Phat. Chi Phat, a small Eco Tourism village found with a two hour very slow boat ride through the Boutum Sakor National Park. ...
Surgery in the jungle
... but a few years ago the Wildlife Alliance set up a community based Eco tourism project that was designed to give the villagers of Chi Phat an alternative form of income to logging and poaching. The village has 500 families and was just a traditional rural ...
Monkies, birds and bikes
... in sight... Brilliant! We finally worked out that we had to wait for an hour till the boat arrived that would take us to Chi Phat, so we sat with a couple of local women, armed with our Cambodian dictionary, which didn't help at all as our pronunciation ...
Chi Phat – Dschungel - Trek
... Koh Kong an der Brücke in Andoung Tuek aussteigen und von dort entschlossen wir uns gemeinsam mit einem Polen ein Boot Richtung Chi Phat zu nehmen. Die Fahrt dauerte 2 Stunden und wir brutzelten ein wenig in der Mittagssonne, bis wir schließlich gut ...
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