Join us to watch the gibbon!
Where can we see these gibbons?
Veun Sai/Siempang National Park, the home of most of Cambodia’s protected gibbons, straddles the states of Ratanakiri and Steung Treng, it’s eastern edge connecting to Virachey National Park. The VSNP is 55,000 hectares of evergreen and semi-evergreen tropical forest.
We spend the last two days in Veun Sai – Siem Pang National park. We spend the night in the research center where we got to talk to a PHD student who is researching gibbon behavior and stress levels due to illegal lodging. The gibbons that live here are yellowcheeked gibbons and they are pretty rare. Only one group is habitated enough to allow human visitors. These animals are awesome! We spend a good two hours following them in the morning. The sound of an awaking jungle is just magic. The work the rangers do in this forest is never ending and we are happy that we could contribute a little by visiting.This was all made possible by Green Jungle Trekking Tours-Cambodia , They offer several tours in the area so even if you are not into primates this is your guy.
First day:
Departing from Banlung and first crossing the Sesan River by ferry an hour north of town, we continue traveling northwest to the gibbon conservation area, arriving around noon at the office.Trekking 2-3hours around the conservation station to see the jungle , animals and birds etc.
Second day:
In the early morning at about 4a.m.,before the sun rises, we venture out to where the gibbons live and wait for them to wake up, singing their early morning cries for 30 minutes, each one crying for about 10 minutes. Watch them fly through the canopy of the jungle as the rest of the jungle awakens.
After the gibbon spotting we head back to the station for a meal at about 10–11 a.m. We catch moto back to I-Tub village. Again, some parts we will be on moto, some we will walk. On the way we visit a Chinese and Laotian settlement and take a short walk around the village. It’s a nice idyllic village with friendly people and on certain days you will be able to witness traditional local weaving.
Continuing back to the town in Veun Sai and crossing the Sesan River by a small ferry, we then stop for lunch at a restaurant nearby the river then travel back to Banlung arriving at approximately 3 p.m.
Note: There is an 95% chance of seeing the gibbons (as promised by the gibbon-protected area and their researchers, not our tours responsibility).
Green Jungle Trekking Tours- Cambodia 