Ream National Park

Magnificent place

We hopped on a tuk-tuk at the cruise port and hired him for $120 for about 7 hours. He also served as a bit of a guide for us so we found this well worth it. We hired a guide at Ream, which I thought was supposed to be $5 per person, but it was $10. The guide took us on a 2 hour or so hike. The hike was amazing, and I would have absolutely loved it as I am a workout buff, had I been told to bring water!!!!! There is no water along the way or at the top so please be sure to pick some up from a vendor before you go. It is very hot and the hike we personally did was rather intense and slippery from a rain the night before. The hike was beautiful. I was hoping to see some wildlife but was told the monkeys and birds are only out early morning and night so the only wildlife we saw was a snake (small and harmless I'm sure, though it sent me into a panic!). If you are someone who genuinely enjoys hiking and being a part of nature as I do, you will surely enjoy this. If you are not a fan of either of those, you will want to stay away.

We joined "Romny" tours, which picked us up from our hotel at 7.30am and were given breakfast at Romny guest-house, while waiting for more tourists to turn up. Breakfast consisted of a piece of bread (baguette) and tea. At 9am we took a mini-bus for about 30 minutes to a river and then took a slow boat journey to the coast and landed at a beach. This is supposedly a national park, but a Chinese developer is building a resort at the beach. We were then left for an hour in the midday sun at the isolated beach with limited shade with the option of paying US$15 for fixed shelter. We then spent about 45 minutes walking through the 'national park'. There was litter every where and walked through poor villagers homes. Finally, we arrived at another jetty, had some fish and rice and fruit and then took the boat back to the original starting point. To be honest it was a pretty ordinary trip. We saw a couple of egrets, one sea eagle. No dolphins, no waterfalls and one chained up monkey in the mini-village we walked through. The guide was very nice and spoke reasonable English. The Cambodian government is not yet properly protecting the national park as evident in the Chinese property development and the litter everywhere. I didn't see a single rubbish bin or map in the national park.

That place is really nice even that place is not so popular for Cambodian but very popular for foreigner. Enjoy with trekking, taking boat a long river get to the sea especially have a nice beach that environment not yet destroy. The ranger really friendly and take car us very well.I recommend that place if someone who want to do something different or want to have new experience of traveling beside sitting, eating and watching at the crowded beach.

Magnificent place

We hopped on a tuk-tuk at the cruise port and hired him for $120 for about 7 hours. He also served as a bit of a guide for us so we found this well worth it. We hired a guide at Ream, which I thought was supposed to be $5 per person, but it was $10. The guide took us on a 2 hour or so hike. The hike was amazing, and I would have absolutely loved it as I am a workout buff, had I been told to bring water!!!!! There is no water along the way or at the top so please be sure to pick some up from a vendor before you go. It is very hot and the hike we personally did was rather intense and slippery from a rain the night before. The hike was beautiful. I was hoping to see some wildlife but was told the monkeys and birds are only out early morning and night so the only wildlife we saw was a snake (small and harmless I'm sure, though it sent me into a panic!). If you are someone who genuinely enjoys hiking and being a part of nature as I do, you will surely enjoy this. If you are not a fan of either of those, you will want to stay away.