{"title":"Cambodia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cambodia-thailand-armstrong-2025","title":"Cambodia \u0026 Thailand","description":"\u003cp\u003eA luxury adventure that zips into a tented jungle camp, takes in the temples of Angkor and Thailand's limestone coast, and finishes with the canals and street food of Bangkok.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Route \u0026 Reason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42446409334847,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/RRS_Thailand_RRI_1461150790.jpg?v=1792796438"},{"product_id":"raffles-hotel-le-royal","title":"Raffles Hotel Le Royal","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilt in 1929, Le Royal has carried nearly a century of Phnom Penh's history within its walls, including serving as a refugee centre and hospital during the Pol Pot years. The rooms are a considered blend of Khmer, Art Deco, and French colonial architecture. Restaurant Le Royal serves recipes gifted directly by Cambodia's Royal Palace. The Elephant Bar, where Jacqueline Kennedy's signature cocktail was once mixed, pours from one of Asia's largest gin collections. The Royal Palace, the National Museum, and Wat Phnom are all within walking distance. In a city still finding its footing, this hotel has always known exactly where it stands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Route \u0026 Reason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43026194432063,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/aja_p_7238-76.webp?v=1761183408"},{"product_id":"shinta-mani-wild-bensley-collection","title":"Shinta Mani Wild, Bensley Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou arrive by zipline over a waterfall. Designed by Bill Bensley and set along 1.5 kilometres of wild river at the crossroads of three Cambodian national parks, Shinta Mani Wild is fifteen luxury tents perched above waterfalls, each one inspired by Jackie Kennedy's 1967 Cambodian safari and furnished accordingly. Everything is included: cocktails, spa treatments, meals foraged from the surrounding forest, and a personal adventure butler who can arrange anything from orchid-spotting hikes to motorbike patrols with Wildlife Alliance rangers actively dismantling poachers' snares. 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The cigar and cocktail lounge occupies a 100-year-old farmhouse. French hotelier, Cambodian soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Route \u0026 Reason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43026197479487,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/R_R_Hotel_Cambodia_Zannier_Phum_Baitang_-_Pool_22_-_Patricia_Parinejad_for_Zannier_Hotels.jpg?v=1765922720"},{"product_id":"testing-blog","title":"What happens when your luxury camp hands you a helmet","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMost conservation stories ask you to care from a distance. Donate here. Share this. Sign the petition. Wildlife Alliance, the organization behind one of Southeast Asia's most effective forest protection programmes, offers something rarer: a way to show up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFounded in 1995 as Global Survival Network and renamed Wildlife Alliance in 2006, the organization began with anti-poaching patrols in Russia's Far East, where it helped the Siberian tiger population rebound from roughly 80 individuals to over 400 in six years. It has since worked across South America, the Western Pacific, and Southeast Asia, but its deepest roots are now in Cambodia, where it has operated since 2000. There, Wildlife Alliance and its rangers protect 1.3 million hectares of tropical rainforest in the Cardamom Mountains, the largest unbroken stretch of rainforest remaining in Southeast Asia and home to more than 50 species on the IUCN Red List, including Asian elephants, Malayan sun bears, pangolins, clouded leopards, and pileated gibbons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe threats are relentless: illegal logging, poaching, mining, slash-and-burn encroachment. Wildlife Alliance's response is hands-on and daily. Twelve ranger stations operate across the landscape, each staffed with a mix of Ministry of Environment judicial police, Royal Gendarmerie rangers, and Wildlife Alliance personnel. They conduct daily patrols, dismantling poaching camps, seizing chainsaws and vehicles, removing snares, and rescuing live wildlife. Since the programme's expansion, there has been zero elephant poaching in the Cardamoms since 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/AAP4801.jpg?v=1780093405\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe organization's reach extends beyond enforcement. Its Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team intercepts animals taken by the illegal wildlife trade. A rescue centre at Phnom Tamao, roughly 40 kilometres south of Phnom Penh, houses over 1,400 animals across more than 100 species, all seized from trafficking. A Wildlife Release Station in Koh Kong rehabilitates animals for return to the forest. Community patrol teams, trained and supported by Wildlife Alliance, now operate across the region, staffed by the people who know the terrain best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAnd then there is the tiger reintroduction. Declared functionally extinct in Cambodia in 2016 after the last camera-trap sighting in 2007, tigers are now returning to the Cardamoms through a Cambodia-India partnership formalized in 2022. It was Wildlife Alliance CEO Suwanna Gauntlett who, at a national forum in 2017, asked the Cambodian Prime Minister to endorse the plan. The designated habitat sits within the Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary, and scientists believe the Cardamom Mountains could eventually support a population of up to one hundred tigers. The groundwork that made this possible, the years of daily patrolling, snare removal, prey-base recovery, and forest protection, is Wildlife Alliance's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis is where Shinta Mani Wild enters the picture. Designed by Bill Bensley and set along 1.5 kilometres of river at the crossroads of three Cambodian national parks, this fifteen-tent camp was conceived as a conservation tool first and a luxury hotel second. Room revenues directly fund an on-site Wildlife Alliance ranger station. Guests are not adjacent to the work; they are in it. One tent to every 27 hectares of forest. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRyan and I joined a Wildlife Alliance motorbike patrol late one afternoon.\u003cspan\u003eOur group included an English-speaking volunteer, two park rangers, two military personnel, and two Shinta Mani Wild guides with us on the backs of their bikes\u003c\/span\u003e. We rode dirt paths through the national park learning what signs the rangers look for, which trails to investigate on foot, which to cover by bike. Our group found an actual illegal log pile. We watched a real investigation unfold, signage that had been torn down was repaired, and locals were questioned about who had been cutting and when. Back at the lodge, a display board tallies the programme's results: 775 confiscated chainsaws, 43 guns, 14,000 snares removed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/AAP4770.jpg?v=1780093405\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWhether this constitutes genuine conservation or well-produced tourism is a fair question. What I can say is that the numbers on that board are not decorative. The ranger station operates whether or not guests are watching. The forest stands because someone patrols it every day. And the fact that travellers can participate, can fund that station simply by staying, and can leave understanding what is at stake in this particular stretch of forest, is exactly the kind of travel worth seeking out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou can learn more or donate directly at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifealliance.org\/\"\u003ewildlifealliance.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Route \u0026 Reason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43324042182719,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/4311\/6863\/files\/AAP_IMG_0942.png?v=1780167567"}],"url":"https:\/\/routeandreason.com\/collections\/cambodia.oembed","provider":"Route \u0026 Reason","version":"1.0","type":"link"}