Virachey National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Virachey National Park
This is an enormous park covering 3,325kmestablished in 1993. Most treks barely put a dent in it. The park is under constant threat from illegal logging and poaching, but the worst threat of all is the talk of a Chinese-funded road being bulldozed across the southwest corner. No road plans have been announced to date, and a trek to the "holy grail" of Phnom Veal Thom rewards the hardy traveller with jaw-dropping views of the wild and unexplored mountainous borders with Laos and Vietnam. Views to the south open out onto the vast hilly jungle spilling down to the Sesan River and the Brao and Kreung villages that dot the river's edge. Until 1903 the entire mountain massif (which is the lower extremity of the SE Asian massif which plunges down from Tibet, belonged to Laos. But the French decid
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