CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:41 pm

Kampoochie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:03 pm Since the Tampuon tribe consider Yeak Laom to be a a living spirit — they're animists, for the most part — you can't stay right on the lake, at least when i was last there in early 2018, but you can stay very close. There's some homestays. There's another lake I prefer to stay on the shores of, just because it has nicer hotels. The Ratanakiri Boutique Hotel is where I've normally stayed. But many people are there for the rustic setting, I just like having modern amenities to come back to after a day out. I did a hike through Virachey, I'd definitely recommend that. Many people would argue it's the last non-empty forest in mainland Asia, meaning it still has bears and leopards and other large predators that have been emptied out of most tropical rainforests in SE Asia. Maybe <10 tigers, so functionally extinct but a few rangers have seen evidence here and there. This is rapidly changing, of course.