4 Days / 3 Nights Adventurous Deep Virachey National Park Trekking
Itinerary For 5 Days / 4 Nights Trek
Day 1: 5 hr Trek – Lunch & Dinner
Departure from your hotel in Banlung at 8:30am. We bring you to VuernSai district (VuernSai is located 40 km north of Banlung). It takes 60 minutes to drive there.
When you arrive at VuernSai, you’ll take a boat on Ton Le San River for 5 minutes and then you will see a smaller river. It is called O’La Lai
River. Your boat will follow this river for 40 minutes where you will arrive at the very remote village of the Kavet ethnic minority. The Kavet people are very friendly and 20 percent of the villagers are still living in bamboo houses.
Note: in dry season from March- June, according to the river is too shallow, so we take a ferry to cross Sesan river and continue travel by Motodube/ local trailer or car for 20minutes to get to the Kavet tribal village.
We meet our tribal ranger there and take a tour around the village with your guide and ranger. You have lunch in this village and afterwards the real trek starts.
In the beginning, you trek leads to an area inhabited by tarantula spiders. Your guide and ranger are very expert at their task and they’ll show you how to use a grass leaf to get a tarantula to come out of its hole if they find a tarantula’s holes.
Then you continue to trek deeper into the bamboo forest where there is a river, which is 35 meters wide by 2 meters deep. You have to swim across this river but there’s no need to worry about your stuff as we have plastic to pack and floating it across the river safely.
Once you are across, you will be told to put on long clothes as there are insects like leeches and other insects, which like to suck your blood. You keep on hiking for another 90 minutes and reach a beautiful waterfall with a deep clear pond at its bottom waiting to rinse the sweat of your body.
Your guide and ranger set up the shelter by the waterfall, prepared hammocks and make a fire to cook dinner. You enjoy your dinner by candle and fire light and sleep overnight in a peaceful world deep in the jungle.
It is possible to go on a night safari trek for approximately 30 minutes to an hour if you don’t feel too tired. Please let our guide know as they’re always ready for this.
Day 2: 5-6 hours trekking
Get up at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast, start hiking in the old jungle deeper. For this second day trek you will enjoy the sight of old jungle with many different kinds of huge trees (trees which have been living for hundreds of years in this jungle) but we are mostly off beaten track, therefore the ranger will often use machete to make a path through the jungle in some case, you also get a high chance to see wildlife such as gibbon, monkey, species birds, wild boar , deer sometimes bear. However there is no guarantee for wildlife as they are very scared of human. Our guide and ranger will show and explain about the natural resource such as some kind of vine we chop them water drip you can drink its water. Some fruit eatable and aromatic as well as poisonous plant.
We have lunch by a small stream. At the afternoon after lunch we carry on our trekking to an area which is rarely reached by human and at night after helping each other to make up a campsite and dinner. We start a new program of 2 hours night trek to look for wildlife. Have you ever done any night walk with head-torch on your head before? Well, to do a night walk you’ll get much more chance to spot native nocturnal species like badger, reptiles , civet ,wild pig ,slow-loris also night birds and others. Moreover, you’ll get such a feeling of walking in the jungle at night time, it’s creepy! The jungle sound at night time is very scary, more impressive and exciting than day time. When you flash around yourself hundreds of eyes of insects appear glowing all around you.
Day 3: 4-5hours Trek – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
We trek, trek and hike for 4-5 hours until we reach at a waterfall and we spend the night next to this waterfall.
Highlights as above: Learn to survive in the deepest jungle, walk among the giants of the forest, track wildlife, enjoy the refreshing streams and rivers and feel the sense of great accomplishment of surviving the wild.
Day 4: 3hrs – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
After breakfast we hike and trek to a river that will take 3 hours to get there.
We reach that river around 12 at noon .Take a break for lunch, the afternoon we help each other to chop some bamboos, carry them to the river, slice young bamboo to make strings and use it to tie bamboo up together to build up a bamboo-raft .
Making bamboo paddle too and start rafting down. After one hour and half rafting we reach a large rapid and there are few families of jungle indigenous people living in small bamboo houses there and so we are going to stay overnight with these families. There is a mountain with panoramic view next to the tribal house, before to spend the night with these jungle ethnic minority we trek up this mountain for a wonderful view of this huge jungle which is bordered to 3 countries (Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam).
Come down after sunset to have dinner with these people. At night we make a little party by drinking traditional home-made jar wine of the indigenous people. You can talk with them about their lifestyle, livelihood, culture and traditions.
Day 5: 3hrs – rafting, walking – Breakfast & Lunch
You say “Goodbye” to the family after breakfast and start rafting down river for 3 hours. You’ll arrive back at the same village as the first day. You walk off the raft into the village and have lunch with the ranger and say “Goodbye” to him. From here, you travel south by boat back to Vuernsai. In Vuernsai, transport is waiting to take you on a 60 minute trip back to Banlung.
Price:
1 person-$99 per day
2 people-$55 per person per day
3 people- $49 per person per day
4-5 people- $45 per person per day
6-7people- $42 per person per day
The prices include:
- Transportation by moto or 4x4WD (1-3 people by moto, 4 people up by 4x4WD)
- A good english speaking guide
- Indigenous ranger / expert tracker
- Meals: Day 1 – Lunch & Dinner / Day 2 & 3 – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner / Day 4 – Breakfast, Lunch
- Water ,coffee and tea
- Boat trip
- All camping gear: hammock, mosquito net, blanket and tent
- All entrance fees + Virachey NP
- Bamboo-rafting on O’Lalai River
The prices exclude:
- Personal expenses
- Snacks
- Tips
- Insurance
- Breakfast before the trek
- Dinner after the trek
Things to bring:
- During the actual trek; long trousers, T/shirt, bathing suit, closed shoes, sun cream, insect repellent, sun glasses, camera, small first aid kit, toiletries.
- During the night; a set of clothes for the night, sandals or flip flops, towel, head-torch.
Note: From November till the middle of February nights can be cold.
*Please Note:
Safety is our main priority, we will do our best to provide a safe, fun and memorable trips to all our guests!
***Important note:
This itinerary is written based on our research expeditions. It should be read in order to get a good impression and NOT as a detailed hour by hour itinerary.
Parrot Tours Ratanakiri, Cambodia has the right to change parts, or divert the route of the trek due to extreme weather and terrain conditions for your safety and /or in order to follow guidelines of the indigenous rangers without any prior notice.
Please Note: All tours must have a tour briefing at ‘’ Our office or The Green Carrot restaurant ‘’ in Banlung the evening before the tour taking place!
