3-Day Mondulkiri Gibbon Watching Wildlife+ Elephant Sanctuary Project

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Tour Details

Mondulkiri is the ancestral home of the Bunong ethnic group, for whom the forest forms a deep and indivisible part of their culture, community, and identity. Predominantly animist, the Bunong rely on the forest for food, fuel, building materials, and spiritual sites. Most Bunong regularly use medicinal plants collected from the forest.

15 new species discovered within KSWS
Stable populations of the critically endangered, black-shanked douc langur
Stable populations of endangered yellow-cheeked crested gibbon
Stable population of two vulnerable macaque species, and increasing population of a third macaque species
A decade of robust population monitoring data for 11 species
Highest recorded bird diversity in Cambodia
One of the highest known woodpecker diversities in the world
First successful giant ibis nests recorded in 2019
More than 1000 species recorded from the site, including 55 globally threatened vertebrate species, and 75 total globally threatened flora and fauna species
Rediscovery of critically endangered snail species Bertia cambojiensis in 2019, once thought to be extinct
A decade of robust population monitoring data for Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary and the area around our Jahoo Gibbon Camp in the core of the sanctuary (approx. 2000 square kilometers) is one of our most unique birding and wildlife sites. The comfortable tented safari, camp deep in the forest, with its bamboo lounge and delicious Khmer/Bunong food is an experience not to be missed. Cies

Detailed Itinerary

Pickup Details: we will come to pick you up from hotels or other places. please provide us the address of you stays, hotel’s name, hotel’s phone number, and hotel’s website that will convenience for us to find your hotel location. Thank you! -Departure & Return to your location hotel Departure Time
8.30 AM
Day 1: Meet you at your guesthouse in Sen Monorom, for an introduction talk. We will then head south to drive 20 minutes reach the Elephant Sanctuary Forest 12km from Sen Monorom town. The drive offers lovely views over the Bunong community forests our project is helping protected,and support profits to Bunong sanctuary community forest.

9.00am – 12.00pm
Morning hike through the Sanctuary’s rainforest & elephant discovery walk. We begin with a short scenic to enjoy hike into the valley mountains. Before meeting the elephants, our guide, will explain the project goals & the importance of protecting Mondulkiri’s wildlife & habitats.

Next, we’ll meet, greet, feed and follow the elephants & their mahouts elephant man as they freely walk and eat in the jungle. We will follow them to observe the elephants’ natural behaviors for example the way in which they consume bamboo, grasses and different plant roots as natural medicine. This is an ideal opportunity to take lots of amazing photos of the elephants enjoying life in their natural environment.

2:00 – 3:00pm Elephant bath & water fun:

In the afternoon, we hike back into the forest & make our way to the Sanctuary’s natural river pool. The mahouts will slowly walk, and washing, swim, feeding with the elephants into the waterfall for them
Day 2: Trekking into the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary of Mondulkiri.

In morning, you enjoy hot coffee or tea, and breakfast your guide and ranger are cooking on woodfire for you, then connect road to drive vehicle in 45 minutes heading to the( Keo Seima wildlife sanctuary) ,to meet your Bunong local Ranger and begin for the day with a short scenic hike into the wildlife sanctuary, and We will spend the morning hike through the Keo Seima Protected Forest & animal discovery walk. Listening the Gibbon shout around camp following and having the chance to potentially observe a rare to see the Gibbons, macaque, black-shanked douc langur, and bird species in the wild. You take a break for, fruit, snacks, and then continue to explore other animals and the nature attracting you. There is also a chance to spot birds, insects, and rare flora and megafauna on the hike. Lunch by a scenic spot in the jungle, and relax bathing your body in a little river, or waterfall there is also a fair chance to spot birds & other wildlife in this sanctuary area. Your local guide will show you bats living inside the tree holes and bear print climbed up on tree, we have another tent to cover the camp depending on the weather and season. Enjoy traditional Bunong cooked bamboo tube soup it’s exotic, you Never try in your lifestyle in the city, perhaps you can try rice wine with grilled pork/chicken on the woodfire.

Day 3: Again, we rise early because the gibbons make sound to be wake up and guide preparing hot coffee or tea, and breakfast for you. Since the habituated groups of gibbons start to sing; the gibbon guide will try to locate them in the forest as fast as possible and he will guide us to the spot gibbon, macaque, and bird species. so, we can watch them as they go about their morning activities in the tree canopy. In some cases, they let you come very close – less than 15 meters – which provides an excellent opportunity to take pictures. This is a special time as the gibbons can travel quickly in the trees and leave in a split second, anytime they want. Once they do, it can be very difficult for us to find them again, however, the group can often be followed for a couple of hours throughout the forest. Your local guide will show you bats living inside the tree holes and bear print climbed up on tree, we have another tent to cover the camp depending on the weather and season. Enjoy traditional Bunong cooked bamboo tube soup it’s exotic taste, you Never try in your lifestyle in the city, perhaps you can try rice wine with grilled pork/chicken on the woodfire. After the gibbon spotting, and after lunch, you continue your trek through the jungle to continue to observe the wildlife and jungle scenery. Later, we spend a 50-minutes’ drive back to Sen Monorom. The tour end approx 4-5pm reaching your hotel in Senmonorom.

Note: Hike level: 4-5 hours per day

• Difficulty: Medium
• Distance: 10-12 km
• Departure & Return Location
  Pick-up from located hotels in Sen Monorom town.

Departure Time
8.30 AM 

Pickup Details: we will come to pick you up from hotels or other places. please provide us the address of you stays, hotel’s name, hotel’s phone number, and hotel’s website that will convenience for us to find your hotel location. Thank you! -Departure & Return to your location hotel.