Situated on the Piphot River at the foothills of the Cardamom Mountains, Chi Phat is a community-based homestay project that is your gateway to a local green adventure on the edge Cambodia's dense rainforests.

Thailand's cultural and social roots are firmly set in the countryside, in fact, when Mahatma Gandhi said of his home country "... the real India is in the villages". He could just as easily have been referring to Thailand, a country whose political and cultural birth was in the "million rice fields" of the ancient Lanna Thai Kingdom.

In a country that still has little infrastructure except in the main collecting points of Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, there can be no better way to explore the Jungle Temples than by taking your own accommodation along with you... in style!

On this journey we will set out to discover the essential essence of Southern Vietnamese life - so tropically different in style and history from that of the north.