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Hotel overview

Brand new for August 2013, this promises to be the best choice for Sen Monorom (it is just 1km from town). There are 14 bungalows on the hillside and the design is fresh and contemporary. Room amenities are generous and consistent with a decent four-star boutique property: in-room electronic safety box, DVD players, flat-screen TVs, WIFI.....etc. The addition of an infinity pool, with attendant bar ensures that this is, without doubt, the 'slickest' resort for many surrounding miles.

One hopes that the attached 'animal sanctuary' lives up to appropriate notions of welfare and conservation. Upon soft opening, this small resort certainly impresses but the test will come over time as they try sustain standards in this remote region.

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Elephant Valley Project

Elephant Livelihood Initiative Environment's (E.L.I.E) primary goal is to improve the health and welfare of domestic elephants in Mondulkiri Province. The secondary goal is to work with the local population and the problems they face. E.L.I.E now runs a number of projects in Mondulkiri to help achieve these goals, including an elephant research and monitoring program, mobile veterinarian program and an indigenous community based organisation program. Pride of place is the Elephant Valley Project (EVP), an ecotourism project that provides an alternative approach to elephant care, rehabilitation and conservation. EVP is a sanctuary for overworked and abused captive elephants in Mondulkiri province. Under the direction of Jack Highwood, the twelve retired elephants spend their time roaming, grazing, bathing, and socialising in the project's 650 hectares of natural forest. This exceptional amount of land gives the rescued elephants the freedom to live as much like wild elephants as possible. EVP is also dedicated to wild elephant conservation. Over twenty percent of annual revenues are spent on funding specialised law enforcement teams who patrol and protect nearby forests, an effort unprecedented among captive elephant establishments. EVP will pick you up from Sen Monorom and transport you to the project site. You will follow one of the family groups through the forest, observe the elephants' natural behaviours, and learn about their individual stories. You spend the full day with the elephants, shadowing them in the jungle for the morning and afternoon, learning about the elephants, the local mahouts and the forest. If you wish you could spend the afternoon volunteering, for example gardening, farming and on small building projects. If you wish to do this, then we will need plenty of notice. You are able to stay overnight at the Elephant Valley Lodge, but this accommodation is also used by long-term volunteers and is not always available.

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Tribe Trekking & Waterfalls

Begin the day with a visit to Pulung village – home to the Phnong indigenous community. A local guide will explain their culture and way of life and it is usually possible to actually enter a local home to see how people live and cook under their thatched roofs. Some are slightly more modern wood houses which are built straight on to the ground, quite unlike most Cambodian homes which are built on stilts to avoid floods. The Phnong have an intense relationship with the forests and the elephants who live within, an animal they deeply respect. A local Phnong guide will help your interaction with the indigenous people. From Pulung it is time to get some exercise on a walking trail, which would be rated easy to moderate. The distance you cover will be almost 5 miles, through the valley and over some small hills to reach a pretty waterfall, before following the trail back to a main road. From there it is a further 30 minute drive to Bou Sra Waterfall. Bou Sraa is a particularly scenic two-tier waterfall and, indeed, the largest in Cambodia. Cascading some 10m on the first tier and 25m on the second the waterfall is a popular spot for local tourists and the small handful of intrepid westerners who make it this far. Enjoy a simple local lunch on picnic mats with views to the waterfall. The adventurous may want to try a short trek up to the upper level of the waterfall, only possible at certain times of the year. After lunch drive back towards Sen Monorom, stopping at a coffee plantation en route. Enjoy a cup of fresh coffee and walk through the plantation. The final stop of the day is a hilltop known for its view of the 'Sea Forest'. As you stand on the top of the hill and look across the rolling hills it really does appear you are 'all at sea' with the hills appearing like waves! Enjoy sunset from the hill before returning to your hotel.

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