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Shinta Mani Wild, Cambodia. Where to Stay for Wildlife Watching in Cambodia.

Where to Stay for Wildlife Watching in Cambodia from Tented Camps to Floating Bungalows

Where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia, from luxurious safari-style lodgings and tented camps – including a resort that floats on a river – to atmospheric boutique hotels set in traditional Khmer timber houses overlooking a serene lake.

Where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia isn’t such a tough decision to make, as options are limited in the destinations best located for experiencing Cambodia’s ethical wildlife encounters. What accommodation there is just happens to be some of the most special lodgings in Cambodia, meaning you’re in for some truly memorable stays.

If you’re going to do Wildlife Alliance’s behind-the-scenes tour and spend time with the sun bears, moon bears and other animals rescued from wildlife traffickers at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre, it’s easily visited on a day trip from the capital, so you check into one of our recommended Phnom Penh boutique hotels.

Likewise, Siem Reap’s beautiful boutique hotels are where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia’s northwest, such as bird watching tours to Prek Toal Core Bird Reserve in the Tonle Sap Biosphere with the Sam Veasna Centre or an excursion to the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity to see pangolins, palm civets and gibbons, at the base of Phnom Kulen, site of the ‘lost city’ of Mahendraparvata.

For more off the beaten track wildlife experiences in Cambodia, such as walking with the elephants at the Elephant Valley Project in the Mondulkiri jungle or spotting the Irrawaddy Dolphins  on the Mekong River near Kratie, you’ll need to check in somewhere close by and allow a minimum of an overnight stay although we recommend at least two or three days.

Better yet, create your own Cambodian wildlife watching themed holiday and check into all of these atmospheric stays.

Where to Stay for Wildlife Watching in Cambodia

These are our picks for where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia based on the location, character and creature comforts, as well as opportunities to experience Cambodia’s wildlife.

Shinta Mani Wild – Bokor National Park with Kirirom National Park

Shinta Mani Wild, above, will become the place to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia when it opens in late 2018. Owner-designer Bill Bensley is building Cambodia’s first luxury tented camp in a gorgeous 400-acre river valley that was an unprotected wildlife corridor connecting Bokor National Park and Kirirom National Park.

The private nature sanctuary will host a wild elephant research station, natural history museum and community outreach and education centre. The area’s pristine estuaries, mountains and rainforests represent some of Cambodia’s last remaining habitats for wild elephants, gibbons, bears, tigers, and myriad other species, and efforts will focus not only on conservation and protection of threatened wildlife and habitat, from poaching, mining and logging, but also on developing sustainable opportunities for the traditional people of the land.

The initiative is a collaboration with the Cambodian Government, Wildlife Alliance, Fauna and Flora International, and Royal University of Phnom Penh, which means guests will get to do guided tours with rangers and research students, checking camera traps and monitoring wildlife, as well as explore the lush waterways on expedition boats.

The luxury tents, peppered along a 1.5 kilometre stretch of river and waterfalls, will be furnished with antiques, including claw-foot bathtubs and vintage suitcases, while the Landing Zone Bar and Waterfall Restaurant, perched on the edge of dramatic cascades, will offer locally inspired food and drinks with ingredients foraged from surrounding forests. Shinta Mani Wild will be also self-sufficient with its own organic farm and solar power.

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4 Rivers Floating Lodge – Tatai River

Cambodia’s first tented camp on water may no longer be the most luxurious when Shinta Mani Wild opens, but the 4 Rivers Floating Lodge, an over-water resort located on the pristine Tatai River at the base of the Kravanh and Cardamom Mountains in the wilds of northwestern Cambodia, is very comfortable, rather special and has been Cambodia’s most unique accommodation until now.

The floating bungalows, built from hardy safari tents imported from South Africa, are super-spacious, with big comfy beds, living areas, and separate bathrooms. Guests spend their days discovering the tranquil waterways by boat and exploring the luxuriant forests on foot with experienced guides and rangers. The wide range of activities include sunrise jungle hikes, excursions to the Tatai Waterfall, a trek through the lush rainforest of Ta Kiev Mountain, and a serene sunset cruise.

After dark, you can enjoy four-course meals at the 4 Rivers Restaurant, where the menu showcases the best of Cambodian cuisine and highlights its Indian, Chinese and French influences, before falling asleep to the sound of water lapping against the pontoon of your floating bungalow. Bliss.

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Rajabori Villas Resort – Koh Trong, Kratie

Solar panels provide power by day, a generator picks up after sundown, the water takes a while to heat up, and there’s no air conditioning, just one fan per room. Nor are there televisions and the Internet often doesn’t work. To arrive, you take a boat, a moped, then tuk tuk or horse cart. Yet beautiful Rajabori Villas Resort on the idyllic island of Koh Trong off the riverside town of Kratie is a true hidden gem.

Atmospheric accommodation is spread across 13 traditional Khmer wooden houses, handcrafted by skilled local craftsmen who have drawn upon centuries of know-how passed from generation to generation. Interiors are decorated with antiques, vintage furniture and everyday objects from the countryside, from claw-foot bathtubs to rattan chairs. Spacious balconies entice you to relax with a good book and inhale the scent of frangipanis wafting in from the tropical gardens.

This is where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia if seeing the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins is on your list. This part of the Mekong River is famed for the handsome dolphins, distinguished by their round heads and short dorsal fins. Slow swimmers and playful, they were once easy to spot, but now are increasingly difficult. Recent estimates suggest there are as few as 90 left. Still, Irrawaddy dolphin spotting is the most popular thing to do in Kratie.

This section of the river also hosts some of the world’s largest freshwater fish, including giant catfish, giant carp, giant turtles, and giant stingray. Once you’ve done your wildlife watching, you can explore this gorgeous little car-free island, where time seems to have stopped, on foot or bicycle, bask on its sandy beaches, swim in the river, take a cruise, or do excursions to visit craft villages that weave silk kramas, cotton sarongs and traditional mats.

Book Rajabori Villa Resort online with our booking partner Booking.com.

Terres Rouges Lodge – Banlung, Ratanakiri

Terres Rouges Lodge is where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia if wildlife watching means gibbon spotting. Set on the banks of peaceful Lake Boeung Kansaign in Banlung, Ratanakiri, the Red Land Lodge is spread across traditional Khmer style buildings constructed from Cambodian precious woods, including the former home of the provincial governor. The timber bungalows with polished wooden floors, high ceilings and whirring fans are surrounded by a lush tropical garden filled with banana plants, palm trees and pandanus.

Nearby Virakchey National Park is home to elephants, Asian brown bars, sun bears, and abundant birdlife, from eagles to hornbills, although most travellers come for some gibbon spotting in the 55,000-hectare Veun Sai Siem Pang Conservation Area, which hosts one of the world’s largest populations of yellow-cheeked gibbons and eight of Cambodia’s 16 most endangered land species, including leopards and the Siamese crocodile. Banlung is also home to indigenous tribes such as the Tampouns, Kroeungs, Jarais, and Katchas, as well as Chinese and Laotian communities.

Aside from gibbon safaris, guests can trek through forest, cashew and rubber plantations to waterfalls, do some mountain biking, and go camping. There’s an inviting swimming pool that you’ll appreciate after a day exploring – the lodge is named after the rust-coloured laterite dust of the dirt roads and bush tracks that floats in a gentle haze across Ratanakiri during dry season and creeps into the pores of your skin.

At the small spa, you can book the spong, a Cambodian hammam, for a scrub and massage. Come sunset, the spot to settle is the sweeping veranda of the restaurant and bar for panoramic lake views and evening breezes. A Cambodian menu features Khmer and Chinese dishes, while the European menu offers French favourites, reflecting the colonial history, such as duck foie gras with a grilled baguette, coq au vin and duck confit.

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So that’s where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia as far as we’re concerned. Have you been wildlife spotting in the more remote parts of the country? We’d love to hear your tips and would welcome your recommendations for where to stay for wildlife watching in Cambodia in the comments below.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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