It's this goal and a promise of world - class hiking that has brought us to our current grassy plain and the first of our three - day hike into the mountains surrounding the village of
Chi Phat.
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Chi Phat.
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Chi Phat.
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Chi Phat.
This coupled with government plans to sell parcels of national parks to private developers, the proposal of several Chinese - built dams along Koh Kong's rivers, and a recent government approval to build a titanium mine nearby
Chi Phat — which could result in the possible loss of 11,000 acres of rain forest — is pretty horrifying.
More adventurous travellers can head upriver to the remote hamlet of
Chi Phat, home to a pioneering ecotourism initiative, and the truly intrepid can hire a guide to trek deep into the Cardamom Mountains, one of Southeast Asia's last great wildernesses.
INSIDE a breezy bamboo structure in
Chi Phat, a village in the remote province of Koh Kong, near the Thai border in southwestern Cambodia, a dozen or so foreigners sat down to a communal dinner of chicken curry and Angkor Beer.
The lodge, on 12 acres along the Tatai River about 50 miles northwest of
Chi Phat, is thick with palms and brightly colored flowering bushes.