We had a quick breakfast and were picked up at 7:30 for the ride out to Elephant Valley Project, a few kilometres outside Sen Monorom. A quick orientation and we were off into the forest. As a group of about eight visitors, accompanied by a Western and a local Bunong guide, walked towards where one …
We crossed the sleepy border crossing (with a quarantine station that took our temperatures) into Cambodia and, after a wait for more passengers, continued in a VIP bus down to Kratie (kratch-ay). First impressions from the not-so-VIP seating was of a somewhat desolate landscape. Houses, looking fairly derelict, dotted along the roadside were very basic: …