
Hiking & Camping in Kirirom National Park
3 days and 2 nights hiking tour from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Experience with hiking adventure thought chartering rainforest and pine forest, where wildlife snuffle in the underbrush and many birds fry from tree to tree, you’ll encounter a Kirirom National Park untouched by the crowds.
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Vacation Style Holiday Type
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Camping
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Hiking
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Activity Level Strenuous
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Group Size Small Group
It’s a fantastic holiday as combining with hiking experiences, staying overnight in a local community project home stay and one night in a luxury tent at the hill top of Kirirom National Park.
These national park is a high-altitude plateau as known for its unique high elevation pine forest, which forms the headwaters for numerous streams feeding Kampong Spue town. This park is also the home to many endangered species of animals such as Pleated gibbon, sun bear and tiger. With its lush and elevated location, the Kirirom National Park has a real escapism feel to it, with the stunning views across to the Cardamom Mountains. This is a moderate to challenging activity where you need to climb and downhill by foots and delicious packed lunch in the jungle. To be able to include all these highlights in the itinerary involves a considerable amount of overland travel, by private bus. Purified drinking water were serve for you with a full board meal at local restaurant is a great way to sign off on this holiday.
Tour Highlights:
- Explore Khmer villages, countryside and see real life of local people as well as enjoy a local foods
- See Khmer traditional dancing show by children where it a part of benefit to them for their education
- Experiences overnight at local home stay and hike in the jungle, where you’ll get rain-forest experiences with fresh air and waterfall.
- Walk through bamboo forest, rainforest, and pine forest in Chambok community and Kirirom National Park as the home of wild animals and birds
- Take a break from your adventures on the hilltop with stunning views across to the Cardamom Mountains.
- One night experience in a local home stay and one night in a luxury tent of Kirirom National Park
Tour at a glance:
- Depart from Phnom Penh at 1:30pm daily
- Tour Price (Per Person): US$ 296
- Total hiking distance : 17km (10 miles)
- Max altitude – 675 metres (2,215 ft)
- Minimum age: 10 years old
- Max group size: 10
- Photographic: Good
- Hotel pick up and drop off in Phnom Penh city
- English speaking hike guide and local guides
- All entrance fees and drinking water
- Private vehicle support
Accommodation and Meals
- 1 night at a community project home stay
- 1 night in a luxury camping tents in Kirirom National Park (2 pax per tent)
- 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 1 dinner
- Single supplement US$65
- Personal expense and tips
- All alcohol or other drink doesn’t mention in the tour plan
- Travel Insurance
- Thing to do in VKirirom Resort (E.g horse riding, rental bike, etc.)
We offer variable accommodation during the trip where you will experience to stay in rural area like local people and richest natural setting with stunning view of Kirirom National Park.
- Home Stay in Chambok Village. Experience the way the locals live by sleeping in one of our homestays. Many houses in Cambodia are built on talks to provide shadow and protect that house from the rain and animals. Even though the accommodation is basic , you will like it there. The families will welcome you warmly and show you a more simple way of life. The water which is used for drinking, cooking and washing comes directly from the waterfall. Chambok is fortunate to have clean water available the whole year. Click here to learn more about this community based ecotourism site.
- VKirirom Pine Resort located on top of kirirom mountain national park provides you once in a life time experiences. A lot of activities in the fresh air like Jungle trekking, horse riding, fruit picking, team building for corporation as well with new creative delicious cuisine contains organic vegetable from own farm. Click here to learn more about this natural resort.
Food
Cambodian food tends not to be as hot or spicy as Thai and 85% of Cambodia food are come from vegetable and fish as normally they eat as a fresh meal. The most popular fast food in Cambodia, often served from street stalls, is the Chinese noodle soup. Commonly Cambodia meals is including steam rice, while your traveling on this journey we will find a wide variety of Cambodia cuisines such Chicken sour soup, stir fried chicken with pine apple, green herb soup, dry fish, dry beef, and pork ribs. You will try local food such as ‘charcoal chicken’, ‘sticky rice’ and ‘fried fish’ will commonly be offered.
Hiking Trails
We walking through small flat trails, hilly and forestry landscape. Birds flying from tree to tree, and wild animal snuffing underbrush of the rainforest at Aural Mountain as the eastern of Cardamom mountain. You may have a chance to see Great Horn Bill, Cambodian Laughingthrush, Chestnut-headed Partridge, Mountain Scops Owl, and a numerous mountain bird. That mountain also home of wild animals such as Fly Gibbon, Wild pig, Monkey, and a numerous of Asian wild. Most of our trails is involved with bamboo forest, jungle, climb up and down hill by foots.
Accommodations
There is 1 night stay in the home stay of Chambok Community Based Ecotourism Site where you’ll experience with local people, and local Khmer foods and there is 1 night stay in luxury tent in Kirirom National Park were is coverage by the pine tree, naturally landscape and best climate all the year round.
Trekking Team Supported
Our experience trek team will happy to serve your trekking adventure and leaving you to enjoy the experience of being in the mountains. English speaking hike guide is a whole organized of the trip, 1 local guide or villager will lead us and helping us from the villages to the peak.
Equipment List
For this holiday you will need comfort hiking clothing, including suitable hiking boots or shoes and a sleeping bag. Here we would like to recommend an essentials stuff and nice to help equipment for the journey.
- Essentials
- Day backpack and hiking bag (20L to 35 L) with raincoat cover
- Water bladder- min 3 litter water capacity or refill water bottle
- Comfort hiking clothing, hiking boots or shoes and hiking poles (We can use bamboo stick instead the poles)
- Personal medication/ small first aid kit
- Nice to help
- Personal food stuff and coffee
- Insect repellent
- Sunscreen, lip balm, sunhat and sunglasses
- Electrolyte
- Flip flops
- Smartphone or camera to take any pictures
- Wash bag, towel, toiletries, including anti-bacterial hand wash
Climate
Cambodia has a tropical climate, with a rainy season from June to September. The hottest months are just before the monsoon, in April and May. From October through to April there is little rain and from December through to March is the `cool` season although it rarely gets cold. Daytime temperatures will hover around a humid 25 degrees centigrade, falling to the low 16’s at night. Please check, when is good time to visit Cambodia.
https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Phnom-Aural/forecasts/1813
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