Full Itinerary

Veun Sai -Siem Pang National Park (VSSPNP) is located in northeastern Cambodia. It covers an area of over 50,000 hectares with a large area of vast evergreen forests. VSSPNP riches with many Endangered and Critically Endangered species including our Cambodian National Birds, the giant ibis, leopard cats, pangolins, lorises, langurs and especially home to the largest population of the new discovered gibbon species, the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbons. It is the best area for wildlife lovers to enjoy seeing, following Gibbons and visiting the jungles. Due to many years in research, a group of gibbons is habituated to the present of humans, so tourists have very high chance to see and follow the gibbons in their natural habitats without disturbing to their ecological behavior. Recently the chance to see the Gibbons has increased up to 85% in the site!

We run the tour to see the gibbons in the park from two to three days. You book this tour, it means that you contribute to the conservation of this gibbon species and community development as most of your expense is going directly to the community and conservation of the park.

Day 1

8:10am meet at Parrot Tours office in Banlung and take 20 minutes for your last preparation before the tour departure. 8:30am-Travel by moto/car /or 4x4wd to Kachock village (Tom Poun tribal village), which would take approximately 50 minutes to get there.  Visit the villages of the Tom Poun and Krueng tribes. Enjoy a scenic 30minutes motorized boat ride upstream the mighty of Sesan river to visit a majestic Viracehy’s Kachock jungle with one hours and half trekking to a stunningly amazing over forty meters high waterfall where you can invigorate your muscle and refresh swim before to enjoy lunch .

Trek back to the boat and then to a Kachock ethnic village and a short trek to observe the sacred cemetery of Kachock indigenous people, each tomb has interesting wooden man and woman sculptures.  Catch a boat downstream Sesan to Vuensai, and then check in at VSSPNP office. You’ll be taken by community moto for an hour ride to VSSPNP base research station. Meet local gibbon ranger and trek with him and English speaking guide to the grassland for bird watching. Dinner will be prepared by the community chef at the research station. After dinner will go out for a safari night walk to look for seeing the nocturnal species. Go to bed around 9pm as the following day is an early grumpy morning start!

Day 2

Get up at 4am as the gibbons start calling to mark their territory as soon as the dawn break, and we should not miss it. Watching and following the gibbons for a couple hours and trek back to the station for lunch. After lunch we leave to Banlung.  Would be back to Banlung around 3pm.

After lunch you’ll be taken back to Veunsai to sign out from the office. You will be taken to Koklark village a community of Kavet tribal people, visit the village and meet local community ranger and then trek for 2 hours to the mountain at Tju Pres rapid. Enjoy a panoramic view of the Virachey NP from the mountain top and a good refreshing swim at a beautiful O’Lalai river. You’ll stay an overnight with the local Kavet. Have a pleasant dinner with hosted family and understand their culture and lifestyle. Our English will be glad to be your translator.

Day 3

Say Goodbye to the family! Enjoy bamboo-rafting downstream O’Lalai river for 3 hours to Kocklak village with view along the river and chance of spotting some birds.

Lunch will be at Koklark, then you’ll be taken by moto to Vuensai and take a ferry across Sesan river, from there our vehicle is waiting to take you back to Banlung.